Conceptric

The archives for sustainability

  1. Encouraging waste

    I’m trying to renovate my bathroom at the moment, it’s looking and feeling a bit run down. I don’t want to replace everything, just those parts that are beyond repair, so that I’m not needlessly adding to landfill. Who’d have thought it would be so hard on my wallet and my time?

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  2. Carbon Neutral or Sustainable

    The terms ‘Carbon Neutral’ and ‘Sustainable’ are often found invoked in the same context, but they’re not necessarily compatible: carbon neutrality can be achieved without, or even at the expense of sustainability.

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  3. A new year and a new approach

    Further to my shock revelation about the Government and climate change — OK I realise it’s been obvious all along — I’ve come up with another idea to focus our personal efforts.

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  4. Government can’t provide the solution

    I’m not normally given to naivety and unrealistic bouts of optimism, but last week I discovered to my surprise that I genuinely expected some positive agreement on climate change from the Copenhagen summit. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not one of those campaigners on the TV, or that pour forth tweets, and I haven’t been glued to the news from Denmark, but at the end of the conference I have to admit to feeling a little deflated.

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