Tag: carbon footprint
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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…
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Since the start of the Iran war and the spike in global oil and gas prices, more than doubling their price and no end in sight, demand for solar panels has rocketed around the world. The energy crisis will increase household energy bills and inflation everywhere, making the cost of living higher. Solar panels can…
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Climate change would be a lot easier to solve if all we had to do was to get our energy use from renewable resources. Except electrifying energy use with technology like heat pumps, solar panels and electric vehicles would increase demand for energy exponentially. The Centre of Research for Energy Demand estimates we would have…
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Cars is the main mode of transport contributing to carbon emissions, especially for those of us who do not live in cities with good public transport links. Decarbonising our transport network is key to reaching Net Zero and how we travel really matters to our environment. A study from Environmental International analysing commutes in 800…
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A new season has arrived and new weather gives us different options to reduce our carbon footprint. The Royal Meteorological Society states changing weather patterns means there will be drier, warmer Springs. The consequence of this is that we are more vulnerable to droughts, and more likelihood of an ecological mismatch with plants blooming before…
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In a Net Zero scenario, the global population cannot afford to be on the diet that they are on today. The reason being that there is not enough space to raise animals to feed 10 billion people on a meat-rich diet in 2050. Research from ‘Our World in Data’ shows almost half of the world’s…
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Are you concerned about your skin? Research consistently shows plant-based diets can really help with the most common chronic skin conditions and reduce the ageing process. Plant based diets are the most compatible with Net Zero scenarios and it can bring so many benefits to our health. The diet is particular good for our skin…