Oct 17 2009
The end of the World is nigh!
As a West Yorkshire farmer gets fined for failing to satisfy his cow’s ‘psychological and ethological’ needs are we in danger of inventing increasingly stupid and petty rules as the World goes belly up?
Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Aug 26 2009
Watching the grass grow…
Driving around North Yorkshire recently trying to earn a few quid I couldn’t help noticing how much land is turned over to growing grass. Now, the Vale of York is a good, fertile area and we could grow a fair amount of food here except, of course, that major resellers, like supermarkets, would rather buy [...]
Apr 21 2009
What a waste…
Back to packing stuff in boxes and taking other stuff to the local dump. I’m going to two different ones on alternate days now in an attempt to lower my profile a bit. One of the things this exercise has revealed though is the appalling level of waste in the World – I can’t believe [...]
Apr 17 2009
Who cares?
End of week one of planning to close the office and I’ve disposed of a phenomenal amount of ‘junk’. Well, it’s not really junk but no-one wants it unless, of course, it’s pretty much for free. Put a laptop on Ebay for 99p plus £49.99 postage. At the end of the day it’s a laptop [...]
Apr 16 2009
Fly Tipping
It’s Thursday and I’ve just discovered how hard it is to dispose of unwanted items responsibly. I have a lot of stuff to dispose of from the office so I filled up my van and drove down to the local skip. “Do you have a permit sir?” asked the jobsworth. “Erm no, says I” “Then [...]
Sep 09 2008
Alternative Energy
Now that David Cameron has had his wind turbine installed and considering we probably would all like to save a bit on our energy bills I decided to do a little research on alternative energy, in this case wind turbines. What I found out surprised even me. Firstly, there are few sites which give accurate [...]
Sep 07 2008
Going Green
There’s so much crap written about this that the average person has no chance of getting it right. For example, it’s said that cattle in the UK are responsible for 25% of this country’s methane emissions. Methane is one of the gases said to be responsible for global warming – it has several times the [...]
Mar 31 2008
Environment
If the Government would like to make a major environmental impact (positive, of course!) could I make a suggestion? Outlaw junk mail! It won’t cost them a penny; it will save millions of trees; it will significantly reduce levels of waste and it will be supported by most of the population. It doesn’t get much [...]
Jan 06 2008
Don’t say I didnt tell you!
A recent news item on BBC Breakfast revealed that there is a higher recycling cost for Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) due to the mercury content. But you knew that as we revealed it in March 2007! Energy efficient lamps get better all the time but you do need to choose carefully so, if in doubt, [...]
Oct 07 2007
Rubbish Tax
According to yesterday’s Daily Mail (Saturday, October 6th) we’ll soon be charged £40 if we put out more than one bag of rubbish! The powers that be still have not the wit to realise that the problem needs to be tackled at source. It’s time for people to take matters into their own hands. I [...]