Winter is hardly the season to exercise thrift when it comes to household energy consumption (although, environmentally-friendly attitudes should always be in force). But we try anyway, or so we tell ourselves.
Some humble QuGee green practices:
- We’ve been using energy-saving lightbulbs
- We’ve embarked on a recycling scheme for paper, cardboard, glass and plastics (also thanks to the local council’s provision of waste bags)
- We’ve been bringing our old plastic bags to the supermarket and re-using those
- Our heaters/radiators don’t work, so we
can’tdon’t use those
Here’s a funky poster from EDF. Incidentally, I’ve been seeing a lot of mail from them collecting dust on the mail shelf on the ground floor.
Thanks to Habitatnews for the link. And here’s more.
These days, I’ve managed to do revision by flicking through pages of The Economist, listening to BBC podcasts, or by surfing the news. There’s no running away, for environmental technology and issues of sustainability hit us in the face every day – climate change, cutting carbon emissions, risk assessments, fisheries management, water pollution and management, the organic food market, conflicts of interest in conservation, politics behind ‘green’ taxes, increased fuel taxes on flights, pollution impacts on agroecosystems… and the list goes on… and on…
For the Londoners – there’s this innovative operatic audio tour that you can download and listen to while you walk about the Square Mile. And While London Burns makes listeners feel “the damage done to the environment by the likes of BP and Deutsche Bank”:
Bathed in fire, flood, love and turmoil And While London Burns is a compelling collision of thriller, opera and guided walk.
Starring recent Olivier Award nominee Douglas Hodge, this soundtrack for the era of climate change is set amongst the skyscrapers of the most powerful financial district on Earth, London’s Square Mile. An opera for one, it takes the listener, equipped with an mp3 player on a walking audio adventure through the streets and alleyways of our city.
Composer Isa Suarez’s stirring score evokes London’s fiery past, oil drenched present and a dark unknowable future through the eyes of a tormented financial worker obsessed by the collapse of civilisations. Produced by award winning arts organisation, PLATFORM and written by John Jordan and James Marriott And While London Burns is a requiem for a warming world.
