I signed up at the friends of the Earth Website last year http://www.foe.co.uk/ for their daily tips. These are sent through from Rita (who I'd like to think is a real person). My reasons for signing up were two fold; 1) as I hoped to learn something and 2) as I was intrigued on what they'd send through as producing that volume of tips can't be an easy task. As I've only been signed up a few months I don't know if the tips eventually repeat or not. Anyway, so far I've learnt a thing or two, which is no bad thing.
My two recent highlights were about keeping the coil on the back of your fridge clean as this helps it be much more efficient. I've never before (probably like you) really looked at the back of my fridge, but when I did it was somewhat dusty. Needless to say it isn't now and I'll try and keep it that way (obviously without pulling it out to clean on a weekly basis, but certainly a few times a year).
The second was about milk versus organic milk, which again I found illuminating.
"Buy organic milk
A litre of milk takes over three times as much energy to produce than a litre of organic milk. Much of this extra energy is used in the production of fertiliser. So next time you're at the shops, opt for organic.
Best Wishes, Rita @ Friends of the Earth"
Obviously they are going to put their FOE twist on the info they send through, but as we're all reasonably intelligent people we can probably sort the wheat from the chaff.
So why not sign up.
Comments (1)
try this out:
http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp
Posted by Niall | March 17, 2008 6:10 PM
Posted on March 17, 2008 18:10