Easy Ways to Save the World

April 30th, 2007

Local Cooling

Not sure how much this is set up to promote uniblue but if makes people more aware of the issue it seems OK. I have installed this at work - probably won't save much as I am using the machine here pretty much all the time and I turn it off when I go home. I am going to install it at home to. I think it ...

April 27th, 2007

Compost Awareness Week - Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th May 2007

Something that I think we all should be doing. It's easy once you have the composting bin. With all this talk about wasting food and reducing the waste going to landfill and the length of time between waste collections this is ...

April 24th, 2007

Turnoff TV week

I missed Earth Day this week so I thought I should point out that it is Turnoff TV week this week. I can't really see us turning the TV off this week although we don't leave it on stnadby if that counts!

April 14th, 2007

Babies

My wife had our baby just over 6 weeks ago. Hence why this site may have been a bit quieter than normal. She had a cesarean a bit sooner than we expected and happily we are now proud parents to a baby girl called Lucy. Trying to keep certain green ideas going we have bought a lot of the baby gear secondhand and my Dad built us some more specialised bits ...

April 12th, 2007

NOLA green project

Had a comment about this on a post that wasn't really relavant so I thought I would give it it's own post. Apparently you could 'win a super groovy green goodie bag'. Christal the lady who put the comment up, is trying to raise money to assist the Green Project in New Orleans. It's unfortunate but the closest I have ever been to New Orleans is Cuba! Anyway ...