2013/02/25 22:43
During my recent trip to Denmark with Léon, Anna and Amaia, my mum and I took Léon and Anna to Randers Regnskov (while my dad looked after Amaia, who had got a chest infection).As always, it was a great experience, so much better than Eden.If you don't know the place, the idea is to take a zoo and a greenhouse,...
2010/10/29 14:58
East Renfrewshire have now decided that we need to put food waste into a separate bin.This means that we need to fit six bins into our kitchen:Compostable waste (fruit, veg and egg shells)Other food wasteMetal and glassPaper and cardboardHard plasticEverything else(I'm excluding from this list batteries, medicines, electrical equipment and other items that shouldn't be thrown into the normal bins...
2013/04/20 9:44
C02 emissions since 1850 (red); exponential growth (blue); cuts to hit climate target (dashed). Source: The Guardian
There was a really interesting
article about fossil fuel in The Guardian recently.
The author points out that in spite of everything we’re doing (renewable energy, emissions trading, etc.), CO₂ emissions are still rising at the same rate as before — have a look at the graph on the right. As it says in the article: “For whatever reason, cutting carbon has so far been like squeezing a balloon: gains made in one place have been cancelled out by increases elsewhere.” The dotted line shows what the world needs to be doing to limit temperature rises to 2°C — there’s just no way the red line (the actual emissions) are going to fall like this over the next couple of decades.
The article doesn’t offer many concrete solutions, but I think it’s very important to realise that we aren’t currently actually doing anything to limit the rise in CO₂ emissions.
2011/09/14 10:50
EUobserver has published an essential article today about the necessity of eating insects to save the planet.It quotes a Dutch academic who believes that ‘insects are the sustainable, healthy and environment friendly foods of the future. “There are so many benefits to the eating of insects compared to conventional livestock, and, nutritionally, insects are exactly the same as conventional meat.”’It appears that there are now several insect farmers in the Netherlands, concentrating on three species: ‘There are about 1,800 edible...
2010/12/11 19:14
Danish media are reporting that stocks of road salt are running low:"Britain is the big culprit. They use too much [salt]", says Per Nygaard.He justifies this with the country's road network, where A roads are narrow and bad. This means that in his view, all it takes is just a little bit of snow on the roadside before they begin...
2010/08/11 15:05
During our stay in Devon, we went on a daytrip to the Eden Project near St. Austell in Cornwall.It's supposed to be one of the UK's main tourist attractions, and most visitors did look very happy.I thought it was an...
2009/06/18 14:01
Am I the only one who loves the taste of pineapples and mangos but finds them a pain?Pineapples are far too complicated to get into, and mangos have this horrible big stone in the middle.All fruit should either be very...
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