Posts tagged with food waste

Zero Waste Week 2013 Is Here

zero waste week 2013

Setting yourself a challenge is a good way to shake off any bad habits or complacency that have snuck quietly into your life and for the 6th year running, green queen Rachelle Strauss (who I…

Just The 2 Carrots Please Waitrose

2 loose carrots

Dear Little Waitrose, High Holborn, London. I would like to make a request and I hope you can oblige because I believe it is in the interest of you, your customers and just about everyone…

As Much As Half of the World’s Food Goes to Waste

food waste

Roughly two billion tonnes of food is wasted every year according to a report from the UK’s institution of Mechanical of Engineers (IMechE). Amongst the key factors cited as contributing to the figure are poor…

Feeding The World – Future Foods & Efficiencies

future foods

As Band Aid rightly said, we need to Feed The World but as our climate changes and populations grow, how easy will it be to sufficiently feed everybody? We don’t even do a very good…

Wormery Episode 5: The Worms Strike Back

new worms in my wormery

Duh duh duh, duh duhduh, duh duhduh! Ok so it’s not quite Darth Vader striding along to the Imperial March from Star Wars but yes, it’s true, the worms are back and they are ready…

Ethical Dilemmas From The Reduced Aisle

Reduced Sticker

This is going to be quite a short post based upon my thoughts when I recently visited my local Tesco store. I was doing my shopping as usual but when I came to the reduced…

The Worms Are Dead – Long Live The Worms

worms

If you’ve been following my journey for any length of time, you’ll know that back at the end of January I bought myself a wormery in which I have been putting much of my organic…

Green Steve’s Got Worms

worms

No, not the serious medical condition but as I said I’d do in my 2012 green New Year’s resolutions, I have bought myself a wormery so that I can cut down on the amount of…

Weighing Up Christmas’ Green Credentials

Christmas' Green Credentials

So the big day is almost upon us and as usual there are plenty of people running around like headless chickens trying to pick up the last few presents but does Christmas have a positive…

Supermarket Sustainability – How Do They Score?

Supermarket Sustainability

I thought I’d create a new section to this blog to highlight some of the good work being done by companies in the UK and around the world to reduce their carbon footprints and thus…