October 2007 Archives

Next week sees the run up to the annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations, and many people are already wearing their red poppies.

According to The Energy Saving Trust, we take more notice of our peers than of 'experts'. Now I am considered an expert, so you may not take much notice of me, but if YOU start a conversation about climate change, for instance, your work colleagues, family and neighbours are likely to be influenced. You are a powerful person. A report by Wildfire called 'The Power Of One says so, so it must be true, as they're experts...........

Cutting back on what we buy and what we dispose of helps sustainability. John Cossham explains how

I have always felt different, not really part of wider society, kind of on the edge. As a child, I was provocative, argumentative, restless, lazy although over-focussed on certain things... I was called naughty, bright but 'deliberately difficult'.

by Adam McCulloch

Like an adrenaline rush before 9am? Fancy cheating death on a daily basis? Try the environmentally friendly way of getting to work.

I trained as an Environmental Health Officer and spent a full 12 months working from an office. It was partly this experience which resulted in me not becoming a council officer, but instead using my degree to inform my eco-activism. However, if I did work in an office, I would campaign for it to be as green as possible.

Bank notes are no longer green, but spent and invested wisely they can help the environment.