Clare Caulfield With soaring energy prices (and many people choosing between heating and eating), don’t get your info on saving money from MPs or the media, who provide little original inspiration. Switching energy companies does little financially, but we recommend switching to Ecotricity that is good for animals (wildlife-friendly and also they don’t make energyg…
climate change
why we should not allow fracking
Whistlefish You’ve likely heard about fracking (extracting oil and gas from underground shale rock) and the protests that surround it, then others saying it provides jobs etc. So what is fracking, what’s wrong with it and what are the alternatives? Fracking involves drilling a vertical well underground, then turning the drill sideways and pumping in…
switch to greener light bulbs
The media (and MPS) talks of people struggling with higher energy bills, hardly anyone talks about how easy it is to reduce energy bills, simply by switching from old-fashioned (incandescent) light bulbs (which are a huge waste of money) to LED bulbs (more expensive to buy, but they last 20 times longer, and save the…
books to understand climate change
Climate science is pretty tricky to understand, so here it is in a nutshell. The Paris Agreement (endorsed by nearly all countries on earth) say they wish to stop the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels, otherwise the present warming of the planet is likely to hit the target sometime between 2030…