Our Top Ten Things To Do

Every self-respecting climate-friendly, sustainability website has its list of things to do, and this is ours! Being eco doesn’t need to be expensive, in fact there are lots of ways you can save money and be more climate-friendly. Here are the top changes you can make to live more sustainably.

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Urban Trees

Do you have trees on your street? If we suffer a drought or even if the tree is just young, watering them could save it from a parched death. Advice from the experts is to give them 50 litres a week, which is 5 average-sized watering cans worth and approximately a quarter of a normal…

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2073 and All That

This web page exists primarily to list stuff on the net related to Asif Kapadia’s 2073 screening in Camden on 2025-05-19. So you realise the way you thought the world was going has suddenly changed radically, or you don’t quite believe it yet. Either way, fill your boots with this stuff. This is the 2073.film…

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Chocolate Easter Eggs

It’s been a year since the last eco tip about chocolate, and since then, the price of chocolate in the UK has gone up 50% because of the increased occurrence of droughts, extreme heat, extreme rainfall and disease outbreaks, due to global warming in cocoa-growing countries. Both Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire are projected to be…

Repair First

A new scheme has started in North London where residents can claim 50% off the repair costs of electrical and electronic goods from participating repair shops. In a circular economy, nothing would be thrown away. It would be fixed or recycled. If every household in the UK repaired two extra items per year, estimates show…

Local Wildlife and Nature

We benefit from nature and wildlife in the city in multiple ways: mental health, air quality, temperature amelioration, storm water run-off, community enhancement, education, recreation, tourism…. However sometimes we really mess it up. During the COVID pandemic and lockdowns, London wildlife was hammered and wood mice and other rodents, shrews, weasels, hedgehogs, kingfishers, little owls…

Alcohol in Bottles

Until a national bottle deposit return scheme is created to enable re-use of glass bottles, they will remain the most energy-intensive packaging and transport option for alcohol. Large amounts of energy are needed, and it generally comes from fossil fuels. Both hops farms (pictured) and vineyards in many countries are threatened by local changes in…

Recycling

While we won’t recycle our way out of the climate crisis, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t. If something isn’t recycled, then in order of increasing rubbishness, it will get incinerated, end up in a landfill site, or escape into the wild and especially with plastic, end up floating in the ocean. Here are a couple…