One of the frustrations with trying to reduce personal carbon footprints is that no matter what you do, reducing your CO2 emissions to an equitable share (the amount we could emit if everyone in the world had an equal allowance) is very difficult. With most books and programmes, you could follow every tip you’re given [...]
Archive | September, 2009
Environmental photographer of the year 2009
As usual, some stunning images from this year’s Environmental Photographer of the Year award, including Australian storm chaser Nick Moir’s winner of the the ‘climate changing’ category. For more, visit CIWEM’s site here.
Start a lie about bottled water
A nice little campaign here from the anti-bottled water group Tappening: as a reaction to misleading advertising by water companies, they’d like to invite you to start a lie about bottled water. “If bottled water companies can lie,” says the little asterisked tagline, “so can we.” Americans buy 28 billion bottles of water a year. [...]
Rekindling Community, by Alastair McIntosh
I met Alastair McIntosh last week at Greenbelt, and his wise and passionate words struck a chord with me. I bought a couple of his books, and read this one on the way home. Community is something McIntosh understands well. In the early 90s he brought the residents of the Isle of Eigg together to [...]
the G20 – promising everything and nothing
The G20 met last week, as you may have noticed in the news. I’ve been reading their statement to see what they’ve put in place to ensure we don’t get a sequel to the credit crunch. It begins by reaffirming commitment to preventing excessive risk, and maintaining ‘sustainable growth’, which they don’t appear to have [...]
Japan gets serious on climate change
Some good news from Japan yesterday. Just weeks after Japan rolled out the weakest CO2 targets of any developed country, the new prime minister has declared a much more ambitious new set of commitments. The previous goal was to reduce CO2 emissions by 15% by 2020, from a 2005 baseline. The new target, announced by [...]
How to deflate the economy without job losses
This morning I read that there have been fewer traffic jams on Britain’s motorways this past year, which the AA attributes to the recession. Put that alongside falling CO2 emissions, lower demand for electricity and a drop in oil consumption, and the recession seems to be leading the economy towards sustainability all by itself. If [...]
Seasonal eating in September
We’re almost a week into September and I haven’t posted this month’s seasonal update. Lots to enjoy at this time of year though, particularly fruit: apples, plums, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries and greengages (any other fruits named after a colour?) We still have hundreds of tomatoes in the garden. Lots of saladstuffs too, lettuce, cucumber, celery, [...]
What we learned this week
In their campaign against banning incandescent bulbs, which were phased out this week, the Daily Mail hysterically claimed that energy saving lightbulbs cause cancer. It’s not their only such claim – someone has trawled the Daily Mail archives for all the things they claim either cause or cure cancer, and you can read their grand [...]
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