Category: Sustainable dilemmas

My milk comes from a milkman (or milkperson) and arrives on my doorstep.  But it comes from cows before then. Which cows? When my house was built in 1899 I imagine there were milk deliveries (were there?) but of a very different nature. I imagine that the distance between my house and the cow that…

Milk – there are lots of issues around milk and I’ll get to some of them in future blogs. Three days a week I pick up glass milk bottles outside the front door.  I often stop and listen to bird song but sometimes I scurry back indoors to shut the door on the wind or…

I was part of a brief discussion the other day about lifetime offsetting. The idea of offsetting is probably familiar to you: we all do things that cause the emission of greenhouse gases (travelling is a prime example).  Jumping on a plane increases GHG emissions and that increases the impacts of climate change.  But heating…

My car is over 13 years old, and I’ve had it for around eight years. It still has a dent in it from where a Muntjac Deer ran in front of me. I’m afraid it’s a diesel, so it’s polluting in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and in terms of human health risks. That’s not…

You see that fleece above? It’s got plastic in it, and when it is washed, plastic ends up in rivers and then the sea.  I have two fleeces and I wear them a lot – they are warm, they are easy and they are good to wear with binoculars. They are also quite old and…