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What Are We Aiming For? Part 2
TRANSPORT: Less private cars – and a rise in electric cars for those left. A much better bus system - Cheaper, more frequent, on time. Buses should be very, very cheap. Think about how many people...
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Green Gas – An Oxymoron No Longer
Ecotricity, the green energy company that generates electricity from windmills, is working on producing what they call “green gas”. It’s basically methane which is produced by bacteria carrying out...
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Sweet, sweet rainwater
Wouldn't it be great if a multi-purpose, vital and increasingly scarce resource happened to fall on your house every other night... In the world today, we have a water problem. Every living person...
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Erratic Recycling Isn’t Impressive
Photo credit: D. Hurst / Alamy/Alamy What’s up with all this erratic recycling? I don’t mean on an individual level, I mean in terms of what is provided. My mum’s street takes almost everything weekly...
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Compost Bins Galore
In my post: Erratic Recycling Isn’t Impressive, I complained about how a lady I work for doesn’t have a food waste collection at her home. Today when I arrived at work I was happy to see a neat little...
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My New Home – Eco Highs & Lows
I’ve recently moved to Brighton to start University. After two years of shared houses over which I had little control, I now have a flat with my boyfriend… This is great because we have the chance to...
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On Paper Cups & Apathy
Not my photo. Gathered from the wondrous bounty of Google. To supplement my student loan, I have a part-time job working in the cafe and shop at my university campus. This is all hunky dory generally,...
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Flexing My Citizen Muscles
Annie Leonard of ‘The Story of Stuff’ and related videos, likes to tell people to act as a citizen rather than a simple consumer. Today I’ve done just that! Despite a sore throat/headache, I somehow...
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The Guerrilla Recycler
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about my boss insisting on using paper cups in the student cafe, rather than china cups. I had a problem with this because Starbucks coffee is probably our biggest...
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