This week saw the launch of a new Oxfordshire food bank charity, re-plenish. This amazing charity takes some of the 17 million tonnes of food thrown out by supermarkets in each year, and distributes it to local charities that can make good use of it. It’s a brilliantly simple idea, executed in Oxford in one [...]
Category Archives: Environment
Frustration free packaging
November 6, 2008 – 6:08 pm
Another post picked up from 37 signals here. Amazon have launched (I’d guess in the US only?) some new ‘frustration free packaging’ for certain products – toys and electronics stuff. When I first read the 37 signals post, I instantly thought that they were discarding the big bulky plastic boxes and putting them in new [...]
Why nuclear power is not a sustainable source of low carbon energy
July 8, 2008 – 12:31 pm
An interesting article by John Busby from a newsgroup I subscribe to : csrblokes arguing that nuclear fails as a sustainable energy source on 2 counts:
To meet global energy demands today (let alone in the coming decades) we would need 20,000 new nuclear power stations, and there simply isn’t enough Uranium around to supply them [...]
Eco packaging
May 8, 2008 – 9:59 am
I needed some wood finishing products for new doors I’ve had fitted at home. I couldn’t find what I needed locally, so I turned to the web where I found what I needed really quickly.
Lawson HIS had a good usable site (which presumably had good SEO since they were high up in Google’s results), despatched [...]
Public spirit and BAD bus drivers
April 29, 2008 – 1:37 pm
While waiting in a queue for the drivers to change over on my number 211 bus this morning at Waterloo, I witnessed both the ugly side, and a really good side of Londoners. The disembarking driver from the early morning shift tore a strip of paper from the ticket machine, screwed it up and threw [...]
Green Energy UK response
March 21, 2008 – 3:36 pm
A few weeks ago I wrote an article giving my reasons for moving our electricity supplier from Green Energy UK to Good Energy. Green Energy UK coincidentally got in touch with me the next day to ask if I would like to use them in our new office. I declined, pointing them in the [...]
Green vs Good
March 4, 2008 – 8:57 am
About a year ago when we moved into our first office, we signed up with Green Energy UK on a 100% green tariff and felt really great about ourselves.
In the intervening period I spoke to an energy trader who told me that my conscience-saving move was no more than that : something to make me [...]