Best Posts
If you’re new to this blog, and would like to have a look around, here are a few of the best and / or most popular entries.
A few ideas on how to reduce your impact on the environment proved very popular, and I think summarises my ideas on how to live carefully with the planet. This piece has just run and run, partly because it got picked up in StumbleUpon, and by a teacher’s site. It is my most popular post by an order of magnitude.
I do a occasional book reviews, particularly when I’ve either been very impressed or very underwhelmed by something. Dryzek’s The Politics of the Earth is an important book for anyone who wants to understand how the global conversation about the environment works, and the perspectives from which others are talking.
I like living in Somers Town, and posted in reaction to some rather derogatory comments in the TimesOnline. Somers Town – A Good Place, Improving Slowly
Lately, I’ve discovered obsessions with the Bard, and David Tennant. Hamlet and Love’s Labour’s Lost have been feeding that nicely, though I do go to a lot of other theatre.
When I started my pension fund, and the Little Green Portfolio, I explained how I was going to select stocks for it, in Researching Shares.
The summary of fuel cell companies seems to have been interesting, partly because I posted a link to it on the Motley Fool. I actually bought some Acta shares in the end despite saying I wouldn’t, but have decided I’ve got enough alternative energy related stock in my portfolio now.
I’m keen to find interesting local green enterprises, such as Ecojunk and my local cobblers, and to think about living a green life in the center of the mighty metropolis.
And then there are occasional things that just appeal to me.
Read, enjoy, comment and come back!
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Great blog. It would be good to get you involved in the new Camden Sustainability Task Force. See http://www.camden.gov.uk/susforce for more details. And my personal blog for more environmental thoughts – http://www.belsizelibdems.org.uk. By the way I left Labour over the Iraq War and joined the Lib Dems because of their environmental policies and because they had more chance of changing thing than the Greens.
Here are my ten things you can do to green your life:
1) Try to buy local, seasonal, organic fresh food whenever you can. If you use a supermarket, don’t buy fresh food that has been flown in from overseas because carbon emissions from aeroplanes are a big problem. Best of all, sign up for an organic box distribution scheme like Abel & Cole (www.abel-cole.co.uk) or Riverford Farm (www.riverford.co.uk).
Carry a travel mug or a plastic bottle with you so that you don’t need to use disposable coffee cups or buy additional plastic bottles of water.
2) Switch from your conventional electricity company to a renewable energy provider like Good Energy (www.good-energy.co.uk) or Ecotricity (www.ecotricity.co.uk)
3) Buy a subsidised compost bin from Camden Council (call 0845 130 6090) and compost your garden and kitchen waste. If you don’t have a garden, buy a wormery to transform your kitchen waste into compost (www.greengardener.co.uk/worms.htm)
4) Pay an environmental charity like Climate Care (www.climatecare.org) to offset the carbon for any flights you take. They will invest in environmentally friendly projects around the world. Of course, taking fewer flights would help even more.
5) Install a grey water diverter to water your garden during a drought (www.green-shopping.co.uk/reviews/reviews49.html).
6) Stop buying milk in tetrapacks (which can’t be recycled) and plastic bottles (which can only be expensively recycled) and sign up with your local milkman who can deliver organic milk in a glass bottle. (Terry the milkman delivers to Belsize and surrounding areas: 07960 856181.)
7) Change the light bulbs in your house to energy-saving light bulbs and always switch off electrical appliances rather than leave them in standby mode eg televisions, mobile phone chargers, computers etc.
9) Try to refuse plastic bags and surplus packaging in shops. Keep your spare plastic bags by the front door and take some with you when you go shopping.
10) Take your friends to see Al Gore’s film on Climate Change “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Rgds, Alexis
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