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Moving home!!
Posted at: 2009-09-25 13:11:04
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I don’t know how feasible this is, but maybe a local recycling group could use them? Or even ’store’ them for you??
Have a search because there are lots of recycling co-operatives in existence who have depots where they collect and distribute recycled material, I’m sure someone else would have a use for the jars that doesn’t involve melting them down, and you might get lucky in that they’ll keep them aside for you.
Hope the move works out! |
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Environmental Skills placements: Eastern Europe, Iceland etc
Posted at: 2009-09-05 16:55:55
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Wow, looks amazing. I’d love to do something like this
Good for gap year students and recent graduates, I’d reckon.
Thanks for the info! |
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Publicly traded environmental companies
Posted at: 2009-09-05 14:02:20
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Great, that’s a really helpful link. Thanks! |
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Eco-destinations for singles
Posted at: 2009-09-02 13:35:02
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From what I’ve read, eco-tourism for singles is booming. One of the drawbacks is cost, as it’s more expensive to pay for your accommodation all by yourself, unless you stay in a hostel. Splitting the cost of a hotel room with a partner means it’s much much cheaper. However a lot of hotels nowadays are willing to let travellers share a room, so that one doesn’t have to pay the ’supplement fee’- which is what many hotels (in my view, wrongly) make a single person pay when they occupy a double room on their own. The hotels, you see, like to charge per room, rather than per person. To make more money >:(
Singles travel apparently takes up a third of all travel (according to ecotourismlogue.com) so i think hotels ad travel companies are catching on.
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Car sharing.. what exactly is it?
Posted at: 2009-08-30 16:44:03
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It’s more of a pre-organised thing. With people that you know, either socially or through an organisation. Either you’re in a local group and share journeys together (to cut down on unnecessary multiple trips), or you just share journeys with your friends. Timing journeys together so that you don’t get a load of journeys happening, with one person in each car, but put all the people into the same car- less carbon emissions for one trip (albeit with full load in the car) than for five trips.
The different sense is when you rent a car from a company for the day, thus saving you having to actually own a car, meaning there’s less petrol-guzzlers on the road, but you can have personal transport when you need it (eg moving house or transporting a piano).
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Fair Trade Labelling
Posted at: 2009-08-26 22:30:48
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Thanks for the link.
There’s a good introduction to Fairtrade on the site.
The fact that it has links to a lot of the individual national Fairtrade organisations is good too- along with how to become a licensee (a very helpful feature); although it’s a shame there aren’t more countries with national Fairtrade organisations- eg Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc. Unless they’re classed as a developing nation, and therefore on the ’receiving end’ of Fairtrade? I doubt this!
Thanks again for sharing this link. |
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Washing hands with lemons?
Posted at: 2009-08-24 14:43:48
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Lemon juice, vinegar, and water! That’s how to make a cleaning solution!
Other uses for lemons-
*lemon juice in the washing machine/hand wash cycle- fresh smell, brighten whites, or clean ink and stains by applying directly
*rub onto wooden cutting boards to remove garlic and onion smell and disinfect
*clean faucets/taps and remove limescale
*mix juice with water in a spray bottle and make an air freshener
*furniture polish- 1 part lemon juice, 2 parts olive oil
-Annie |
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IBM can help you cut costs and carbon emissions…?
Posted at: 2009-08-18 19:07:44
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To be honest I’ve never worked for a company large enough to need external help in being green..
Once you lose control of how your organisation runs things, I think it a move in the wrong direction.. Accountability is what’s needed |
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Example of green policies
Posted at: 2009-08-18 19:04:50
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It’s good to put your policies down on paper.
So you can live up to it, and stay on track, spur your organisation on by putting yourself up for criticism..
This one does seem a little weak tbh, but at least they’ve made a start! |
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’Thin film’ flexible solar panel…
Posted at: 2009-07-21 15:57:22
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Has anybody experimented with the ‘thin film’ panels yet? It’s the most popular form of solar panelling in the US. Mainly because of it’s light weight, and the fact that it is very thin and flexible. It’s like a thin rubber sheet.
I’ve not seen them in the flesh. |
