Following the 2009 EU Directive on the Sustainable Use of Pesticides, the Pesticide Action Network, both in the UK and the EU, have been actively promoting the banning of pesticides in urban areas - our parks, pavements, playgrounds and verges - to encourage the wildlife that …
Environmental Issues
Amazon is ‘sidewalking’ its way into your house…
Well, it is not walking into our houses in the UK for now at least - although I would put money on them at least trying at some point in the future. But it is in the US. So how can 'Sidewalk' make its way into your house? In the very same way as BT's 'hot spots' - through …
World Ocean Day – and disasters of overfishing
Did you know that yesterday was World Ocean Day? No, nor did I, until I got an email from Coty Perry of the anglers.com blog. He was asking if I could add a link to one of his posts from the one I did a while ago on how whales are far more efficient at reducing our CO2 emissions …
European Parliament calls for more research into 5G on World Electrosensitivity Day
For the last three years the French group, Coeurs d'EHS, has held a worldwide EHS Day on June 16th. The purpose of the day is not so much to campaign against the ever wider roll out of 5G and other electromagnetic powered technologies (although protests there certainly will be) …
An earth friendly alternative to polystyrene
One of the most frustrating aspects of each year's judging for the Free From Food Awards is the amount of polystyrene packaging that comes our way. Mainly to keep frozen and chilled food frozen/chilled, but also often just as fillers. If ever there was a material which was …