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Pete Smith @ November 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Well, not quite all. The London Borough of Bromley’s (LBB) trial of weekly kitchen waste collections continues its lumbering progress. The Composting For All trial has been running since September 2007, with 4,500 participating households (or 5,000 depending on which piece of LBB propaganda you happen to read). Its original remit was to evaluate the [...]
Pete Smith @ May 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s that time again, and the Chelsea Flower Show, “the ultimate event in the gardening year”, is in full swing. The show, flagship event of the Royal Horticultural Society, is being loudly promoted as the ‘greenest’ ever. Mind you, they seem to say that every year. They’re certainly placing a great deal of emphasis on [...]
Pete Smith @ April 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Recycling crops up quite regularly as a moan topic. Here in the London Borough of Bromley, cultural heartland of the People’s Republic of Suburbia, subtle changes are being made to our recycling regime. We’ve got used to a system whereby paper and cardboard go in one box, cans and plastic in another, glass in a [...]
Pete Smith @ February 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
It’s funny how words’ meanings can change over time. I was browsing idly through our bookshelves the other day, when I came across an interesting little volume called ‘The Survivalists’. Nothing to do with Jerry Ahern’s interminable macho saga, Patrick Rivers’ 1975 book is a serious review of the ‘alternative’ environmental movement in [...]
Pete Smith @ November 23, 2007 # One Comment
Well, not quite all. Here in sunny Bromley, capital of the People’s Republic of Suburbia, a trial scheme to compost kitchen waste is being hailed as a roaring success. 6000 homes in six neighbourhoods of the London Borough have been selected to take part in the six-month scheme which began in September.
Participants in the trial [...]
Pete Smith @ July 8, 2007 # 15 Comments
There’s been a lot of disagreement about the Live Earth project, its motivation and usefulness. There’s always room for a bit more.
Off-Grid journalist Brendan Montague tells the tale of how British environmentalists who first conceived the idea of a climate change concert were forced into the margins and their attempts to reduce carbon emissions replaced [...]
Pete Smith @ June 21, 2007 # 5 Comments
Fresh from slagging off the Worldwide Fund For Nature for their hypocritical approach towards waste and recycling, it seemed only fair to give them a bit of credit for some of the good work they do. As part of their ‘One Planet Living‘ campaign, WWF have revived the idea of the ecological footprint, which gives [...]
Pete Smith @ June 21, 2007 # 24 Comments
This morning, the latest copy of Worldwide Fund For Nature’s supporter newsletter, WWF Action, flopped through the letterbox. This is a special ‘Campaign For One Planet Living’ edition, with lots of helpful hints and tips on reducing your ecological footprint.
Sadly, the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ mantra seems to been missed by whoever made the decision to [...]
Pete Smith @ May 5, 2007 # 2 Comments
Researchers at Indiana’s Purdue University have developed a portable machine that turns a variety of food waste and inorganic trash into electricity. Despite being small enough to transport in a 20-foot shipping container, the “tactical refinery”, intended initially for use by the military and disaster recovery agencies, is three technologies in one:
a bioreactor that [...]
Pete Smith @ February 1, 2007 # 3 Comments
Australian prime minister John Howard has hailed a move to force the citizens of Queensland to drink recycled sewage as the way forward for the rest of the world’s driest inhabited continent.
Residents in the drought-hit state will be drinking recycled waste water as [...]