‘Eco home’ at the Geffrye museum

The Geffrye museum is  London’s ‘museum of the interior’ and features mocked up living rooms from houses picked from different eras over the last 400 years.  Right now they also have a really well thought out exhibition on Eco homes running in the basement.  It’s not huge, but it has been cleverly designed by eco [...]

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Ecoworrier 2 – Bokashi

If I make an effort to save a cubic foot of Chinese dirt being flung into obscurity so that a black plastic bag of mine can putrefy in its place for a few millennia, I end up ankle deep in nausea-inducing bransagne. And I’ve paid 8 quid for the privilege.

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Ecoworrier – Kettle

Me (washing up):  So, I thought we could get a new kettle.
Him Indoors (reading paper on sofa):  Mmm Hmm
Me:  It’s this new ecokettle?
HI:  Hmm
Me:  And it only boils the amount of water you need?
HI:  Mmm
Me:  Which is more environmentally friendly?
HI:
Me:  Thing is, they’re £34 and we don’t really need a new…
HI:  What?? (Newspaper crashes [...]

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On sustainability

Somebody asked me the other day what my views on sustainability were. Since giving what was inevitably a rather cobbled together response, I’ve been trying to work out what it is I actually think about this, and the rest of the environmental bun fight we’re all supposed to be up to our necks in.
One thing [...]

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Branson’s space ships are hardly knights in shining armour.

Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is to help gather scientific data on climate change. Today he told the 59th International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow:
“To my mind there is no greater or more immediate challenge than that posed by climate change. It’s therefore more than fitting that the very first science to [...]

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