Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category
Switching off for E-Day (1)
February 27th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
A theme of the entries on this blog this week has been energy. So it’s appropriate that E-Day has just commenced and that I should highlight it on my blog. Energy Saving Day (E-Day) is happening between 6pm today and 6pm tomorrow. Everyone in the UK is being asked: (a) To leave off electrical items […]
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Smart meters a smart idea
February 26th, 2008 by Roger Darlington
Yesterday, I blogged about how the recent increase in fuel prices is forcing more and more UK households into fuel poverty. One way of reducing fuel usage – which saves money for consumers and reduces damaging emissions – is to install smart meters. The cost is variously estimated at between £6 billion-£13 billion, but the […]
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Some interesting islands and lakes
December 1st, 2007 by Roger Darlington
The things you can find on the web (or at least my friend Nick can) – such as the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island!
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Who says an individual can’t make a difference?
November 24th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
I live in a leafy part of north-west London where there are lots of trees. As I turn from my street into the main road, there’s a tree that has a black plastic bag fluttering from one of the branches. It’s been there years and years and years. It’s a constant reminder to me of […]
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How you can recycle more than you think
July 30th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
My attention has been drawn by a friend to a great initiative called Freecycle. The site explains that: “Freecycle groups match people who have things they want to get rid of with people who can use them. Our goal is to keep usable items out of landfills. By using what we already have on this […]
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Have bags of fun saving the planet
July 12th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
A colleague of mine at Postwatch Liz Lainé has recently been on BBC Breakfast television showing how to turn old bits of material into what the ‘guerrilla bagging’ movement calls a ‘morsbag’. This is a reusable bag for shopping that means less plastic bags and less damage to the environment. You can learn more about […]
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Recycle Now Week
June 4th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Here in the UK, it’s Recyle Now Week. On average, we throw away our own body weight in rubbish every seven weeks, so there’s a lot that each of us can do to help. Check out the advice here.
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Are we seeing the death of the plastic bag?
May 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
Now that would be wonderful. The world uses more than 1.2 trillion plastic bags a year – an average of about 300 bags for every adult, or 1m bags used per minute. On average, we use each plastic bag for 12 minutes before discarding it. It then can last in the environment for decades. Plastic […]
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The Human Footprint (4)
May 17th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
The average person in their lifetime will have 7,163 baths using 1 million litres of water. You will also use 656 bars of soap, 198 bottles of shampoo, 272 bottles of deodorants, 276 tubes of toothpastes, 78 toothbrushes, 411 skin care products, 37 perfumes, 35 tubes of styling gel, 25 bottles of nail polish, 21 […]
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The Human Footprint (3)
May 16th, 2007 by Roger Darlington
In an average lifetime, one gets through 8 cars, 3.5 washing machines, 3.4 fridges, 3.2 microwaves, 4.8 televisions, 9.8 DVD players, 15 computers…. 240 kg of fossil fuels, 22 kg of chemicals, and 1.5 tons of water are needed to produce a home computer. £920 is spent per person on the average Christmas. Over a […]
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