Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
How green is your supermarket?
November 9th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Some UK supermarkets are greening up their act and doing more to help customers shop green but others are lagging well behind according to new mystery shopping exercise by Consumer Focus on whose Board I sit. The UK’s top nine supermarket chains were ranked on sustainability measures such as availability of UK in-season fruit and […]
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International Day of Climate Action
October 21st, 2009 by Roger Darlington
This Saturday 24 October is the International Day of Climate Action . Already, over 4000 creative events are being planned in over 170 countries – from the slopes of Mount Everest to the underwater reefs of the Maldive Islands, to the parks and streets of your own communities. Activists will be uploading images of their […]
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A perfect storm of shortages
August 26th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
“As the world’s population grows, competition for food, water and energy will increase. Food prices will rise, more people will go hungry, and migrants will flee the worst-affected regions. That’s the simple idea at the heart of the warning from John Beddington, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, of a possible crisis in 2030.” This […]
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20 ideas that could save the world
July 13th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
We’ve all heard a lot about the growing threat to the planet from the danger of climate change. But what are the answers? The “Guardian” newspaper today has a special four-page supplement in which it considers twenty possible solutions.
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World heading for “ecological credit crunch”
October 29th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
“The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species. As a result, we are running up an ecological debt of $4tr (£2.5tr) to $4.5tr […]
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Water, water, everywhere
October 13th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
First, the good news – on Sunday, I reported a water leak in my main road to the local water company and today work began on stopping the leak. Now the bad news – this is the fourth time that I’ve reported a leak in this location and each time the problem is sorted for […]
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Bring me sunshine
September 2nd, 2008 by Roger Darlington
“The gloomiest August on record has given way to a wet September, leaving sun-loving Brits once again feeling cheated of that most elusive of natural resources. At work and at home, at bus stops and in pubs, people talk about the weather.” This is how a BBC online piece on the British weather begins. I […]
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100 months to save the planet
August 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
According to a new campaign launched by the New Economics Foundation in the UK, in just 100 months’ time we could reach a tipping point in terms of climate change whereby we reach a concentration of greenhouse gases at which it is no longer “likely” that the world will stay below the 2C temperature rise […]
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Love food and hate waste
March 1st, 2008 by Roger Darlington
A third of the food we buy in the UK ends up being thrown away. This is a waste of money and a contributor to climate change. For ways to reduce your food waste, visit this site.
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Switching off for E-Day (2)
February 28th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
I blogged about E-Day yesterday. Regrettably the initiative failed. The web site puts it this way: “E-Day did not succeed in cutting the UK’s electricity demand. The drop in temperature between Wednesday 27 Feb and Thursday 28 Feb days probably caused the amount of electricity use to be higher than expected, as a result of […]
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