The UNFCCC Climate Change talks in Bali are in their last day now, and although we've refrained from commenting on the 10 days of talks so far, the tension at the Bali summit is definitely increasing.
As the county of Kent is the Garden of England, so the UK is the Dustbin of Europe. The Landfill Dustbin of Europe to be precise.
Figures out last month from the Local Government Authority show that Britain really is the dustbin of Europe, dumping more rubbish into landfill than any other European country.
The stats are for the last year of data, 2005, but it shows the following countries and the tonnage (in millions) of waste that goes into landfills each year.
Somebody mentioned this statistic on one of those comedy TV shows last week and we though we would check it out. And sure enough we found that very same phrase in its entirety:
"Road traffic in Great Britain has grown by 84% since 1980"
That is a LOT of traffic, nearly double in under 30 years. It does add credence to the commonly held view that
"Weren't the roads much quieter when we were kids?"
10 months ago the Confederation of British Industry set up a Climate Change Task Force to identify and assess climate change and its affect on British Business.
Last Monday the task force published its findings and it says that it's not just the realm of government and consumers to be doing their bit to go green but business should be actively involved too.
Even the FSB, the Federation of Small Businesses, are on our green bandwagon, but unlike the greenwash brigade they're genuinely into the "go green, shop local" mantra.
Yes, you read that right, we said Carbon Footyprint. There's an online text ad doing the rounds at the moment that caught our attention...
"Make the beautiful game a greener game"
...and it clicks through to CarbonFootyprint.com
Search behemoth Google has set out its desire to generate green energy that is "cheaper than coal".
We may have been a bit harsh asking How Green is Ecotricity but we're only being honest.
If you're a keen gardener or just doing all those good things that make up the green lifestyle, then you've probably got a compost bin in your back garden.
At this time of year the decomposition process slows down due to the cold and wet conditions, so here are a few autumn & winter composting tips to keep your composting process healthy during the colder months.
Yep, it's Buy Nothing Day tomorrow (Saturday) in the UK. Tonight I shall visit my local brewery the Hog's Back Brewery in Tongham, Surrey, to spend a few shillings on locally produced real ale, so once that silver is spent I shan't be contributing to the cult of rabid consumerism for a whole day.
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