Planet Reuse Brings Together Sellers and Buyers of Reused and Reclaimed Material
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 01:05
By Chris Innis
PlanetReuse.com , a global website that conn,ects buyers and sellers of reused and reclaimed construction materials and equipment, has been launched in the US. The site caters the contractor, architect, homeowner community and those looking for sustainable alternatives in building.
The site allows sellers to create free listings with photos for reused, reclaimed and excess building m...
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Reduce Needs to Be Businesses' New Mantra
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 17:22
By Chris Innis
Yesterday there was an artilce by George Monbiot, www.monbiot.com , in the Guardian newspaper which discussed the impact of population growth and climate change. The article put the greatest risk to the environment not on population growth but economic growth because it is economic growth that is generating the demand for resources that is destroying the planet. Well of course, and Monbiot eventually concludes as much, it is a bit of both, the two are heavily...
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Should the disposable plastic bottle be the new plastic bag
Monday, 14 January 2008 04:19
By Chris Innis
The momentum seems to be moving against the plastic shopping bag. China and Australia are looking to ban it. Ireland has and the UK is talking about it. London, if Darren Johnson of the Greens gets his way will ban it whatever Westminster does. Does this mean that disposable drink bottles and cans should be next? Like plastic bags there have been an explosion in their manufacture and use particularly as more water is bottled. Indeed the days when you returned your bottles for a small fee are long gone and if there is a fee, that seems to be left for the homeless...
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UK enters new era for light bulbs
Friday, 11 January 2008 06:15
By Chris Innis
This month shops in the UK will begin to phase out traditional tungsten bulbs as part of a government plan to replace them completely by 2011 and save 5m tomes of carbon emissions a year. However the current crop of low energy light bulbs are coming under criticism for causing skin complaints and migraines, releasing Mercury into the environment on disposal and not being as energy efficient as new LED equivalents.
A typical low energy light bulb is said to contain between six and eight miligrammes of mercury. If one is smashed in a home t...
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Bottled water
Monday, 17 December 2007 12:53
By Chris Innis
This opinion is a little bleat but still relevant to the climate debate because so often our response to climate change is about attitudes. There were 10,000 delegates at the Bali Climate Conference that began a roadmap for the next emissions treaty. That is probably a fair description of two weeks' work. How many, one wonders, drank bottled water? And if they did, how many might have put that into their carbon footprint? I suspect too few. Bottled wa...
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