Category: Household
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There are two things that contribute the most to our diet’s carbon footprint and it is probably not what you think it is. Factors such as whether the food is organic, if it is local or packaging make a small difference to our diet’s carbon footprint. The transportation and packaging of food only contribute 5%…
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Heatwaves around the world are causing droughts and drying up rivers at an alarming rate. As a result, water shortages are going to be a widespread problem in the future. It is estimated that demand for water is expected to outstrip supply by 40% by 2030 because of extreme weather caused by climate change. The…
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Heatwaves have been hitting Europe over the past few weeks with devastating consequences. It caused deaths for humans across the continent and it has been damaging to the environment. Hotter summers has caused droughts and wildfires in many countries and harmed the habitats of animals and making it harder for them to thrive. Biodiversity, the…
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The average British person produces 12 tonnes of carbon emissions a year. Ideally, we would halve our carbon footprint by 2030 if we to reach Net Zero by 2030. But this seems like a very big task. Do we need to make very big changes in our lifestyles? Dr Hannah Ritchie suggests that we focus…
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Heatwaves are going to be much more common in the future. Rather than being an occurrence every few years, by 2050 they will be happening every summer. What is a heatwave? A heatwave is a period of abnormally hot weather lasting at least two days. What is considered hot weather depends on the typical temperature…
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How can you do gardening in a way that benefits the environment and makes your life easier? Manicured lawns are very popular but maintaining a manicured lawn is difficult and time consuming. The regular mowing, watering and weedkilling takes a lot of effort and is back-breaking work. But there is an opportunity to create a…
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Paving in the garden can be bad thing for the environment. When used excessively, paving causes multiple problems for the environment. It exacerbates the problems with flooding and this is more of a concern with extreme weather becoming more frequent in the future. Concrete paving only absorbs 5% of rainwater and because rainwater has nowhere…
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How you manage your garden contributes to your carbon footprint and has an important impact on biodiversity. One of the things we have to deal with in our garden is getting pests under control. The main way to get pests under control is usually using pesticides, but using pesticides has many disadvantages for our environment.…
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One of the main gardening tasks we do is to taking out the weeds from our garden. But you would be surprised to know that how we take out weeds has an impact on our carbon footprint and the biodiversity in our garden. What are weeds? Weeds are any unwanted plant growing in an area…
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Managing your garden in the right way will support the ecosystem that is struggling with climate change. Increasing carbon emissions is creating a double disaster of a climate change crisis and a biodiversity crisis. There has been a big drop in wildlife globally and we are on track to lose over a quarter of species…