Buying second-hand instead of new doesn’t just save cash, it saves a whole load of energy, resources and pollution too. Selling second-hand obviously supports that. Here are the options for…
Category: Action
Washing-up Sponges and Green Scratchy Things
A washing-up sponge might seem insignificant, but this is the result of a decade long search, including many false starts with expensive green products that were frankly ridiculous, e.g. a…
Vote for EcoCounts in the £5,000 climate prize draw please!
This week there’s a climate charity prize draw happening, where you vote for the charity you want to support, they put all the votes in a hat, and pull out…
Induction Hobs
“Now we’re cooking with gas!”, they used to say – a quote from a North Sea gas advert years ago. Cooking with an induction hob is the way to go…
Laundry Detergents
This is a deep rabbit hole to go down. There are multiple ingredients found in laundry detergents for a range of reasons and with a range of impacts, i.e. this…
Keep Peat in Bogs not Bags
Mushrooms, for peat’s sake? It seems Britain and Ireland’s mushroom growers use nothing but peat from our extensive CO2-storing peat bogs, adding to the continued decimation and massive CO2 emissions…
Love and Rage, Outrage and Optimism – July 2 Fresk Workshop Follow-up
It was a sunny Tuesday evening and great for doing a climate fresk, with the sun coming in through the big front windows of the climate centre. I was joined…
Insulation and Central Heating
Together pollution reductions from government targets for home insulation and central heating would make up 18% of UK emissions by 2032, i.e. a big deal. Not everyone is going to…
World Refugee Day Raises Justice Concerns
On World Refugee Day, June 20th, the United Nations asks us to celebrate the right to seek safety, which refugees seek to exercise. Whether we welcome refugees in empathy or…
Library of Things
Borrowing makes sense: save the investment in money and the CO2 emissions simultaneously at a London Library of Things. Our local LoTs: There was a LoT in Islington on Seven…