Recent Comments

1. Offset your Airmiles - 03 Oct 2005

   I don’t know the science, but it seems unlikely that planting the odd tree will make much differnce to the tons of CO2 air travel emits per passenger. Would it not be much betterto avoid air travel altogether? We haven’t been on a plane since 1997 when we honeymooned in India, but since then we have travelled twise to Spain, twise to France, once to Norway and all over Britain, using bikes, trains, busses and coaches. Its really not difficult, and, in many ways, even more fun than flying!

2. Get Rid of Your Car - OK, ambitious, but... - 20 Dec 2005

   Try giving up your car when you move to a new area. You will then find moving to a house near local facilites and stating activites that you can get to without a car essential and will not miss the car. If you enjoy driving holidays, you can hire a car for a week or two and do all of us a lot less damage than you would if you drove all the time. We’re a family with a four- year- old child and we’ve not hired or borrowed a car for well over a year( and that was only for two days) although we did all hitch- hike a few miles the other day when we’d walked to a pub for the afternoon. The train we wanted to return on has stopped running for the winter!

3. Choose to have one meat-free day a week in your home - 21 Mar 2006

   Very easy for me, as I’ve always been Veggie, as has all my immediate family. Not really a sacrifice, then.

4. Choose to have one meat-free day a week in your home - 21 Mar 2006

   Very easy for me, as I’ve always been Veggie, as has all my immediate family. Not really a sacrifice, then.

5. Use 'real' nappies - 10 May 2006

   On our first child, we found reusable nappies to be perfectly easy to use and not at all a hassle to wash. They also smell less unpleasant and cost much less to use. Add to that the environmental benefits and we really can’t see why anyone should want to use disposibles. We’ll be re-using our washables on our second child.

6. Know your local political leaders - 16 May 2007

   standing in elections yourself is a good way to meet people.