That long hot shower adds up in terms of electricity used to heat the water, and the excessive use of good drinking water [in Suffolk – one of the driest counties]. Do you you use the washing machine every day – again electricity and water use. get as good an energy rating as you can…

The worry that everything you do is going to make the environment worse, might turn you into a couch potato – stay at home and watch tv! Using the average size tv uses quite a lot of electricity. In the UK an average of 4.2Kg CO2 is involved in watching 100 hours of tv [and…

We all have to get about. We all know big cars use more petrol, cost more, pollute more. Electric cars are becoming more popular, but they do need somewhere to charge up. Small eco-cars use less fuel and often pay no duty – they pollute less Bicycles are best, but not suitable for all [or…

includes things you do, places you go, how you travel and heat your home. In UK the average person produces 7.4 tonnes of CO2 a year. This figure is higher in developed nations and especially where it is very hot or very cold [cooling and heating]. Australia and USA produce over 20 tonnes per year…

Those green beans that are grown in Kenya and flown here. Those cut flowers grown in Uganda and flown here. They don’t travel in the overhead luggage lockers. Whole airplanes are chartered to carry this produce. Buy green beans and they have air miles associated. they already have a carbon footprint attached. How much else…

You always start worrying when you see men with folders under their arms wandering around looking at ‘green’ sites – developers, estate agents? So it was this week. Residents at the west approach to the village worry about the school, its field and the field to the east of it (in private ownership). There’s always…

blog posts are regular comments about environmental matters and the locality. What is shown on the Blog post pages are the first paragraph of each – click on the title to read the full post.

We are residents in and around Peasenhall, concerned about changes in our environment. Suffolk Council have declared a Climate Emergency – what does this mean for us? We are concerned about falling numbers of insects, birds and small mammals air and water pollution increasing problems due to waste and especially plastic excessive traffic, speeding traffic,…