Posts in Green Friends

9 Alternative Uses For Toilet Paper Tubes

toilet roll uses

We all use toilet paper on a daily basis, and while there are still few more environmentally-friendly alternatives to TP (recycled toilet paper has its advantages), there are ways to make better use of the…

Longevity? It’s A Hearts And Minds Thing

Longevity? It’s A Hearts And Minds Thing

I’m not an eco-preacher and I do think in some sectors of manufacture, for example where hygiene is involved, that throwaway can work (as long as it biodegrades). But I do strongly believe that interiors…

Improve Your CSR and Improve Your Profits

csr and profit

Being eco-friendly doesn’t have to be counterproductive to running a successful business. It can, in fact, be beneficial because having a strong Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy in place can help to improve profits. Over…

7 Reasons We Need Paper More Than Ever

paper pad and pen

Every week of every month for the last decade, writers in publications scattered all over the world have confidently announced the death of paper. Amazon’s Kindle is released – and books are labelled defunct. Mobile…

What Everybody Ought To Know About Cloth Nappies

cloth nappies

“Cloth nappies….what?” “Eeuuuuu….Really?” “Don’t you have to boil them?” “How much?” “It will take too long, I don’t have the time.” These are among the various comments that we at Croydon Real Nappy Network (CRNN…

Buying the Shop: Tribal Loyalties Relegate Science to a Triviality in the Climate Change Debate

tribal loyalties in relation to climate change debate

When you step back, forget whatever grounding you may have in the subject and approach it anew, it seems somewhat remarkable that there’s any debate whatsoever regarding climate change. Surely, as a scientific matter, there…

Chasing Ice – Seeing Climate Change

Chasing Ice still

When it comes to climate change, that old adage ‘seeing is believing’ holds a lot of weight. The fact that it will take decades for the full impacts of climate change to be seen makes…

Deidre On Growing Up Green

growing up green

Hi, my name is Deidre and I wanted to tell you a bit about myself and what I’ll be writing about as a new guest blogger! Growing up I didn’t have to work very hard…

Living Among the Cook Inlet’s Shrinking Glaciers

Cook Inlet glaciers

The Retreating Matanuska The tremendous Matanuska Glacier is slumping into the ground like an expired prehistoric animal, its once mighty surge punctuated by the fresh black boulders it had accumulated in its steady march, and…

Is There Such Thing as Bad Publicity?

green press coverage

As they become increasingly pressing, environmental issues are gaining more coverage than ever. At the same time, a proliferation of start ups offering a range of products and services with varying degrees of environmental credentials…