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Time to Repay Time to Repay
- From: GregRuf
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Peter Schiff, president of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., predicted in 2006 that we were heading for an economic downturn. “Experts” didn’t take him serious. It’s 2009 and some of the biggest companies have collapsed like a house of cards and the “R” word is on everyone’s lips.
For most of us, seeing is believing; for others, the symptoms of impending disaster are sufficient to elicit preventive action.
A similar scenario of denial and indifference is being re-enacted in the case of climate change and global warming, which has been stealthily creeping up on us for the last 25 years. Read more at: WNS Global Services - Blog post
- 1 year ago
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Buy Eco Friendly Knickers! Buy Eco Friendly Knickers!
- From: JohnRussell
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It all began as a student project - but now GreenKnickers looks set to stay.
The undies which are kind to the planet, have proved so popular that the zero carbon pants have sold out and a new wedding range is to be launched.
Sarah Lucy Smith came up with the idea for her final project while doing the Eco Design course at Goldsmiths university.
She then teamed up with her school friend Rose Cleary-Southwood, and GreenKnickers was born.
Sarah said: "We started GreenKnickers to prove that ethical can be funny, beautiful and sexy.
"The fabrics are so gorgeous, and super-duper green.They're selling extremely well.
"Some customers say they're the comfiest knickers they've ever worn."
The knickers are made from environmentally friendly fabrics, like organic cotton, hemp and silk. Goods from abroad are shipped by sea and staff travel by bike.
Each pair arrives in a box made from recycled paper and printed with organic vegetable based inks.
The global warming knickers are printed with thermo-chromic inks, and change colour as they warm up.
There is also a range of cycling smalls with removable padding to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint.
At the moment GreenKnickers operates online, but Sarah said: "If the business continues to be successful I would love to open up a boutique."
Around 80% of the wholesale value goes to the suppliers.
But at a cost of up to £25-a-pair, plus £3 postage and packaging, you will have to pay the price to do your bit.
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- 1 year ago
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City buses turn to sewage for City buses turn to sewage for 'clean' fuel
- From: JohnRussell
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Can the key to "clean" energy be found down in the sewer? That's the idea in Oslo, where city officials soon plan to introduce buses that run on biofuels extracted from human waste.
As of 2010, the new buses are due to start plying the streets of the Norwegian capital.
"It's a win-win situation: It's carbon neutral, it hardly pollutes the environment, it's less noisy and its endlessly renewable," says Ole Jakob Johansen, one of the people in charge of the project at Oslo city hall.
The biofuel, which is methane generated by fermenting sludge, will come from the Bekkelaget sewage treatment plant which handles waste from 250,000 city dwellers.
"By going to the bathroom, a person produces the equivalent of eight litres (2.1 gallons) of diesel per year. That may not seem like a lot, but multiplied by 250,000 people, that is enough to operate 80 buses for 100,000 kilometres (62,000 miles) each," Johansen says.
Compared to diesel, biomethane is a giant green step forward.
In addition to being carbon neutral, it emits 78 percent less nitrogen oxide and 98 percent fewer fine particles -- two causes of respiratory illnesses -- and is 92 percent less noisy.
Even the price is advantageous, says Johansen.
All included, the cost of producing biofuel equivalent to one litre of diesel comes to 0.72 euros (98 cents), while diesel at the pump in Norway currently costs more than 1.0 euro.
"The fuel is less expensive but the cost of the new buses and their maintenance is higher. In total, it's about 15 percent more expensive," notes Anne-Merete Andersen of Ruter, the operator of Oslo's public transport system.
Contrary to first generation bio-ethanol, made from grains and plants, biomethane has the added advantage of not impacting food supplies, nor does it require fertilisation or deplete precious water resources.
Environmentalists are delighted.
"We've been waiting for this for a long time. It's extremely good for the climate and also for the quality of urban life," beams Olaf Brastad of the Bellona environmental organisation.
"I see absolutely no downsides. On the contrary, it is an optimal way of using a renewable energy that has always been there, just waiting to be exploited," he adds.
The initiative, if extended to Oslo's second waste treatment plant and complemented with biofuels made from food waste, could provide enough fuel for all of Oslo's 350 to 400 buses.
"If our entire fleet switched to biomethane, carbon dioxide emissions would be reduced by around 30,000 tonnes per year," according to Ruter.
Biofuel buses have already been introduced in several cities, including the French city of Lille and Stockholm, Sweden, where 70 such buses are already in service.
"There were some teething problems with the introduction, but now that those problems have been resolved we see that we have a fuel that works well," Sara Anderson, a biofuels specialist for Stockholm's public transport system SL, told AFP.
And, for those who remain sceptical, Johansen stressed that "there is absolutely no smell."
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- 1 year ago
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Maldives: Carbon Neutral Maldives: Carbon Neutral
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The Maldives will become carbon-neutral within a decade by switching completely to renewable energy sources like wind and solar power, its leader has said.
President Mohamed Nasheed said the Maldives understood better than most what would happen if the world failed to tackle climate change.
His tiny country is one of the lowest-lying on Earth and so is extremely vulnerable to rises in sea level.
He said he hoped his plan would serve as a blueprint for other nations.
"We start almost from scratch... and it is quite pointless for us to go to yesterday's technologies" President Mohamed Nasheed
Mr Nasheed was due to announce the plan formally after the screening of a new film on climate change, The Age of Stupid, on Sunday.
The Maldives is made up of a chain of nearly 1,200 islands, most of them uninhabited, which lie off the Indian sub-continent.
None of the coral islands measures more than 1.8 metres (six feet) above sea level, making the country vulnerable to a rise in sea levels associated with global warming.
'Start from Square ONE!'
"We understand more than perhaps anyone what would happen to us if we didn't do anything about it or if the rest of the world doesn't find the imagination to confront this problem." Mr Nasheed.
"So basically, we don't want to sit around and blame others, but we want to do whatever we can, and hopefully, if we can become carbon-neutral, and when we come up with the plan, we hope that these plans also will serve as a blueprint for other nations to follow."
"We think we can do it, we feel that everyone should be engaged in it, and we don't think that this is an issue that should be taken lightly."
The Maldives, having a high level of poverty, will need to spend about $110m a year to make the transition to renewable energy sources.
Asked how it could afford this, the president said the country was already spending similar sums on existing energy sources, and he expected to recover the extra cost within the decade.
"We start almost from scratch, we are having to go for new investments in almost all areas and it is quite pointless for us to go to yesterday's technologies," he said.
An international climate change conference is due to be held in Copenhagen in December to debate initiatives for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon recently urged the world to strike a "conclusive carbon emissions reduction" deal at the conference.
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- 1 year ago
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Turn combustion engines into h Turn combustion engines into hybrids
- From: JohnRussell
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A university team has achieved what could be a major breakthrough in the battle to create greener and cheaper motoring.
Simulation work has shown that a normal combustion engine might be able to be adapted into a new air hybrid engine at very low cost.
The work by the Institute of Engineering and Design at Brunel University in west London could lead to an engine which would be considerably cheaper to run and deliver significantly less carbon emissions.
The Brunel team is now looking to test the scheme with vehicle manufacturers.
The idea is that using the engine's compression to brake the vehicle not only could slow the vehicle down, but also the pistons could compress air and drive it into a compressed air tank.
It could then be used later to briefly power the piston and to provide compressed air for turbo charging during a period of turbo lag (normally at low revolutions).
The Brunel team believe they may have got round the problems which have beset engineers who have been attempting for some years to transform an existing combustion engine into an air hybrid.
Brunel has run successful simulations which require only small alterations to adapt a normal combustion engine into an air hybrid engine using production technologies. The simple and very cost-effective solution needs no transmission alteration or engine redesign.
Professor Hua Zhao, director for advanced powertrain and fuels research at the Brunel Institute of Engineering and Design, said: "Significantly reducing the cost of driving through reducing fuel consumption and lowering carbon emissions for commercial vehicles is an ongoing battle.
"Our simulations prove that we have achieved a major breakthrough. Now, we need to test it with vehicle manufacturers."
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- 1 year ago
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Which is Greener? Coca Cola or Which is Greener? Coca Cola or Innocent Smoothies
- From: JohnRussell
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One is a fruit drink made by a boutique company with a clutch of foodie awards and an impeccable ethical brand, which even boasts a halo on its logo. The other is a fizzy pop, famous for rotting teeth, made by a corporate giant almost synonymous with globalisation.
But when it comes to the environmental issue of the moment - the carbon footprint of their products - the bottle of Innocent smoothie comes off worse than a can of Coke. At least at first glance.
Coca-Cola today becomes the biggest global brand to publish the greenhouse gases produced by making, packaging, transporting, chilling, and disposing of their most popular products. The study, done with the government-funded Carbon Trust, shows a standard 330ml can of Coke embodies the equivalent of 170g of carbon dioxide (CO2e), and the same sized Diet Coke or Coke Zero 150g.
Coke's UK business follows Innocent, which helped the Carbon Trust pioneer its footprinting, and whose 250ml bottle of mango and passion fruit smoothie has a carbon footprint of 209g.
Innocent's co-founder, Richard Reed, questions whether it is fair to compare a bottle of crushed fruit and something largely made of water. Reed's defence highlights a wider issue: how to balance the importance of global warming with other attributes of a product - nutrition, helping poor farmers, careful nurturing of soil, or the welfare of animals. Innocent, for example, donates 10% of profits to charity. "The classical economic response is you implicitly reduce them to a common currency, which leads to money; but my view is these things are just not comparable," said Mike Mason, founder of carbon offset company ClimateCare.
Then there is the issue of what you measure: Coke's cans compare well, but a small glass bottle of the same drink has a footprint of 360g, much higher than Innocent's worst-scoring small bottle of crushed strawberries and bananas (230g).
To resolve these dilemmas, ideas are emerging. Innocent talks of "carbon calories": it calculates that in a world with massively reduced greenhouse gas emissions the average person could afford to eat and drink 2,900g of CO2e each day - and a smoothie would use just 1% of that total.
Mason advocates future labels saying how much carbon is embodied in every pound spent, allowing consumers to compare the impact of anything from a snack to a car.
"Putting an absolute emission on crisps and Aston Martins doesn't tell you very much; using CO2 per pound ... you could grade everything from cars to Coke on the same scale," said Mason.
In the meantime, footprinting can achieve a lot: helping companies understand where energy use and so emissions come from, and so how to reduce both, say supporters.
Innocent has, over two years, reduced the impact of some recipes by nearly a quarter, moving to 100% recycled bottles, buying green electricity, and obsessing about details like stacking more bottles on each transport pallet. "The number of pallets to move is massively reduced, so that's fewer trucks and less carbon," says Reed.
Under pressure to cut costs, and from retailers, brands like Coke, Walkers crisps and Cadbury's chocolate are now slowly taking up the cause. Coke hopes to make savings, including using thinner and more recycled packaging, designing more efficient fridges, and encouraging consumers to recycle more.
"When I say to my wife the carbon footprint of a Coke is 170g, it doesn't mean anything," says Sanjay Guha, President of Coca-Cola Great Britain and Ireland. "But if I use it to explain to her [that] if she was going to recycle one aluminium can that can reduce the footprint by [up to] 60%, then I have found a way to connect with consumers, to make this encouraging for them to do."
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- 1 year ago
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Snail Flatulence Harmful to th Snail Flatulence Harmful to the Environment
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Humans and farm animals were known to emit harmful greenhouse gases through digestion, but German researchers said Tuesday that aquatic worms and bugs are also culprits, releasing laughing gas.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institut and Denmark's Aarhus University found that mussels, freshwater snails and other underwater creatures release nitrous oxide -- laughing gas -- when nitrate is present in water."There's nitrate in water that has been polluted by humans, so the more we pollute, the higher the production of this problematic gas will be," Fanni Aspetsberger from the institute told AFP on Tuesday.
Aspetsberger added that no quantitative data were available, but that it could be "seriously detrimental" to the climate if nitrate pollution continues to rise the way it has over recent years.
Laughing gas is one of many greenhouse gasses that has been released into the atmosphere since industrialisation. Such gasses act as a blanket around the Earth, causing temperatures to rise worldwide.
Rising temperatures have already had disastrous consequences for mankind -- including major disruptions to global weather systems -- and problems are expected to become worse in the future.
The main reason for global warming though, is the release of another greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, by the burning of fossil fuels. World leaders aim to strike a new global climate deal in Copenhagen in December.
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- 1 year ago
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Jodie Kidd: ECO 10 Challenge Jodie Kidd: ECO 10 Challenge
- From: JohnRussell
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Model Jodie Kidd posed with a grass-covered car to challenge drivers to go green.
Kidd launched the Total Eco 10 challenge which is asking drivers to take simple steps to reduce fuel consumption and the UK's carbon emissions.
Motorists are being asked to use advanced fuels and fuel economy lubricants, make sure their vehicle is well maintained and keep tyre pressure at the optimum level.
These steps could reduce fuel consumption by 10% and reduce each driver's carbon dioxide (CO2) by at least 400kg a year.
Total launched the campaign following a study which revealed that more than a third of drivers (39%) feel guilty about the impact their car has on the environment.
Kidd said: "We are bombarded with so much 'green' advice that it can be confusing and whilst many are concerned about the effect we have on the environment, most of us are not prepared or simply can't give up our car.
"Firstly it is impractical and secondly, if you are a car enthusiast like me, driving gives a great deal of enjoyment.
"This programme offers a way forward, to carry on driving, whilst reducing environmental impact and alleviating the guilt factor."
Total says the campaign could reduce the UK's CO2 emissions by 17.2 million tonnes by March 2010, the equivalent of 27,023 return flights to New York.
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- 1 year ago
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Jodie Kidd: ECO 10 Challenge Jodie Kidd: ECO 10 Challenge
- From: JohnRussell
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Description:Kidd launched the Total Eco 10 challenge which is asking drivers to take simple steps to reduce fuel consumption and the UK's carbon emissions.
- 1 year ago
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How to control a cows flatulen How to control a cows flatulence
- From: JohnRussell
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STRANGE BUT TRUE!
AUSTRALIAN scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, researchers say.
Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo flatulence contains no methane and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who emit large quantities of the harmful gas.
While the usual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack pushing out carbon dioxide, livestock passing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions in some countries.
"Fourteen per cent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep," said Athol Klieve, a senior research scientist with the Queensland Government.
"And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base, they're actually up around 50 per cent."
Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers and graziers.
"Not only would they not produce the methane, they would actually get something like 10 to 15 per cent more energy out of the feed they are eating," said Dr Klieve.
Even farmers who laugh at the idea of environmentally friendly kangaroo farts say that's nothing to joke about, particularly given the devastating drought Australia is suffering.
"In a tight year like a drought situation, 15 per cent would be a considerable sum," said farmer Michael Mitton.
But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate the bacteria, before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to animals such as cattle and sheep.
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- 1 year ago
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Algae can save the world? Algae can save the world?
- From: peggleg
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By Stuart McDill
PLYMOUTH, England (Reuters) - Can algae save the world again? The microscopic green plants cleaned up the earth's atmosphere millions of years ago and scientists hope they can do it now by helping remove greenhouse gases and create new oil reserves.
In the distant past, algae helped turn the earth's then inhospitable atmosphere into one that could support modern life through photosynthesis, which plants use to turn carbon dioxide and sunlight into sugars and oxygen.
Some of the algae sank to sea or lake beds and slowly became oil. "All we're doing is turning the clock back," says Steve Skill, a biochemist at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory.
"Nature has done this many millions of years ago in producing the crude oil we're burning today. So as far as nature is concerned this is nothing new," he said.
The race is now on to find economic ways to turn algae, one of the planet's oldest life forms, into vegetable oil that can be made into biodiesel, jet fuel, other fuels and plastic products.
"So we are harvesting sunshine directly using algae, then we are extracting that stored energy in the form of oil from the alga and then using that to make fuels and other non-petroleum based products," Skill said.
He predicted that industry will be cultivating algae in viable quantities for commercial oil production with a decade.
Such fuels are considered to be net carbon neutral because the algae absorb greenhouse gases when they grow.
TEST FLIGHT
Many companies are working on algae and biofuels including U.S. groups Sapphire Energy, OriginOil, BioCentric Energy and PetroAlgae.
Among uses, Japan Airlines had a test flight last month with a jet fuel and biofuels blend including algae oils.
Brazil's MPX Energia plans to trap 10-15 percent of carbon emissions from a coal-fired power plant by feeding them to algae when it starts in 2011.
Plymouth Marine Laboratory says it is taking what we know about algae in the world's oceans and applying it to biotechnology, an approach which differs from much of the commercial research underway, where some claims about the possibilities of algal biofuels are overstated, according to Carole Llewellyn, a marine chemist.
"They (algae) do have a lot of positive attributes but there are a lot of hurdles that have to be overcome before this becomes a commercial reality," Llewellyn said.
Cultivating crops on prime farmland to produce bio-diesel has been widely criticized for helping sustain higher food prices. But many strains of algae grow in sites otherwise uninhabited, from salt-water marshland to deserts.
They can grow 20 to 30 times faster than food crops.
Research in Plymouth includes identifying which strains of algae will produce the most oil or absorb the most CO2 in differing growing mediums.
Algae's requirement of a source of carbon dioxide has also stimulated interest from industrial plants which see the possibility of feeding algal beds with carbon-rich exhaust fumes from their power plants.
Research into replacing petroleum based fuels and products with biodiesel from algae is not new.
The U.S. government began funding research in the 1970s and only discontinued the program in 1996 when it was reported that producing bio-diesel simply cost too much and would not become economic until oil prices rose to $40 a barrel. Prices for Brent crude on Tuesday were $46 a barrel.
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- 1 year ago
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Green BPO Green BPO
- From: GregRuf
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Research indicates that viewing a simple web page generates about 0.02g of CO2 per second. This rises tenfold to about 0.2g of CO2 a second when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos. The following blog post reveals some startling facts about the extent of carbon emission through seemingly innocuous actions such as running some routine Google searches. Read more at:
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- 1 year ago
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The cost of Searching the Web The cost of Searching the Web
- From: RobLyons
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You might have seen this artice (courtesy of the BBC) recently, but it is a good reminder that there is a worth to using Click4Carbon as your primary search engine, and a little reminder about maybe switching your PC off when you're not using it.
Now we do of course use search systems (google included) to provide you results, but you do know you're helping towards offsetting the cost of searches by using us:
'Carbon cost' of Google revealed
Two search requests on the internet website Google produce "as much carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle", according to a Harvard University academic.
US physicist Alex Wissner-Gross claims that a typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g CO2.
However, these figures were disputed by Google, who say a typical search produced only 0.2g of carbon dioxide.
A recent study by American research firm Gartner suggested that IT now causes two percent of global emissions.
Dr Wissner-Gross's study claims that two Google searches on a desktop computer produces 14g of CO2, which is the roughly the equivalent of boiling an electric kettle.
Carbon emissions
The Harvard academic argues that these carbon emissions stem from the electricity used by the computer terminal and by the power consumed by the large data centres operated by Google around the world.
If you want to supply really great and fast result, then that's going to take extra energy 
Dr Alex Wissner-GrossAlthough the American search engine is renowned for returning fast results, Dr Wissner-Gross says it can only do so because it uses several data banks at the same time.
Speaking to the BBC, he said a combination of clients, networks, servers and people's home computers all added up to a lot of energy usage.
"Google isn't any worse than any other data centre operator. If you want to supply really great and fast result, then that's going to take extra energy to do so," he said.
Dr Wissner-Gross said he was working on a website called co2stats.com which helps companies identify "energy inefficient" aspects of their websites.
In a statement on its official blog, Google said that Dr Wissner-Gross' figures were "many times too high."
The firm said that a typical search returned a result in less than 0.2 seconds and that the search itself only used its servers for a few thousandths of a second. This, said Google, amounted to 0.0003 kWh of energy per search - equivalent to 0.2g of CO2.
"We've made great strides to reduce the energy used by our data centres, but we still want clean and affordable sources of electricity for the power that we do use," said Google in its statement.
"In 2007, we co-founded the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. This non-profit consortium is committed to cutting the energy consumed by computers in half by 2010 and so reducing global CO2 emissions by 54 million tons per year. That's a lot of kettles."
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- 1 year ago
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New Year 'Green' Resolutions New Year 'Green' Resolutions
- From: JohnRussell
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I'm no different from most people when it comes to new year.
Drink less, exercise more, lose the gut hopefully and write more blog posts!
But maybe we should all look at our green credentials and determine whether we could be doing more.
The best place to start and determine whether you could be doing more is via our Top Ten Tips.
Could you improve on your carbon footprint?
Could you be reducing your energy consumption and save money at the same time?
Could you cut down on your car use?
Could you reduce the amount of waste you produce?
Can you reuse and recycle more?
Could you buy more local produce?
Can you get out of the house more?
Can you make your garden more squeaky green?
Have you tried cleaning and DIY the green way?
And finally - go on green holidays!?!
None of these are difficult and you might be doing some of them already. And I bet they will be just as satisfying or even more achievable than losing those extra pounds!
Take care,
John x.
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- 1 year ago
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We've added Chat ! We've added Chat !
- From: BobCarbon
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Hi all, we've added a new feature to our ECOmmunity.
You can now chat online to people who are currently logged in and online in here.
Find "CHAT" on the top menu bar and check the instructions.
Yet another feature to help you keep in touch with your carbon friendly buddies.
Have fun!
Bob Carbon.
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- 2 years ago
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3,700 Miles to Buy an Apple! 3,700 Miles to Buy an Apple!
- From: ClaireRussell
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Being eco-friendly, eating primarily organic food and living generally a healthy lifestyle doesn’t unfortunately stop you from picking up flu viruses. And the virus I have been battling this week is the worst I have ever experienced. So much so that hubby had to take me to the walk in centre at our local hospital last night because as I developed the added bonus of an ear infection. The duty doctor kindly prescribed penicillin and jokingly warned that it will get much worse before it gets better and to expect my eardrum to burst at some point; which it did spectacularly at 3am this morning.
I have never experienced pain like this in my life –I would have to say that even child birth was less painful. And at least, with childbirth, there is joy at the end.
Anyway ... despite all of this I am still a big advocate for buying and eating locally produced and organic produce. It typically doesn’t cost more and it tastes better.
One of the huge advantages of organic foods is that they haven't been doused in pesticides. Organic farms ban artificial pesticides.
In the UK, 31,000 tonnes of pesticides are blasted on to farmland every year, and 25% of food carries residues of these chemicals, created to kill pests and weeds. Non-organic fruit and veg is covered in the stuff and it won't all wash off. Pesticide residues turn up, not just on fruit and vegetables, but in bread, baby food and other products. Governments claim that there's no risk to health from these pesticide traces, but wouldn't you rather feed yourself and your children on food that's pesticide free?
And if you care more about the environment that your own and your families health, and I care about both by the way, organic foods also do the environment a good turn when you choose them. Intensive farming methods erode soil, destroy ancient hedgerows, and decimate wild life. Organic farming looks after the environment.
Intensive farming is extremely cruel to farm animals – think of battery chickens, pigs kept in farrowing pens, cows milked to exhaustion. Another of the indisputable advantages of organic foods is that organic farming methods put humane treatment top of the agenda.
Take Apples for example. 76% of apples consumed in the UK come from overseas. Imported apples from the US (the US produce and export over 135,000 tons of non-organic apples per year) travel 3,700 miles to the UK. It seems a long way to travel when you can buy cheaper and tastier locally produced organic apples right here in the UK.
And finally; buying organic produce is not a major lifestyle change which is what all of us at http://www.click4carbon.com advocate. It is little things like this that make a big difference in life and collectively it will improve the environment we live in.
I will report more on sourcing organic produce in future blogs.
And now, I’m back to the sofa with my hot water bottle…..and hubby is off to take the recycling. Hopefully he’ll also ‘Russell’ up a nice healthy dinner for us tonight…..
Love Claire xxx
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- 2 years ago
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Red Apple Red Apple
- From: ClaireRussell
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Description:Would you travel 3,700 miles to buy an apple?
- 2 years ago
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