Dilemmas
This has been a week of dilemmas - so many answers to find.

First of all there were the personal dilemmas. Like should I be proud that my son is reducing the washing pile, or concerned about how dirty he looks when he yet another day insists on wearing the same Superman T-shirt?

This house believes...

Food glorious food.

We are now half way through our year of trying to become green, so has anything changed over the last 6 months? I think it is time for a stock take.

Recycling: We have always been pretty good on the recycling front, but I think we are even better now - hardly anything goes in the bin that could go somewhere else, we recycle, compost, reuse, donate, freecycle etc.

Various ramblings from this week...

Having just filled an 8 tonne skip with massive quantities of metal, plastic, material, wood, I think it's important not only to consider what we buy, but also how we look after it, or pass it onto others to look after before they rot or go beyond repair.

It takes a massif amount of effort to explode rocks out of the ground and to reduce them to rubble and heat to make metal. It takes a fair amount of effort to extract oil from our sub-surface, and to chop down, season and refine those trees to turn them into tables and chairs etc.

Yesterday I was doing bag packing in Sainsbury's as a fundraiser for my son's playgroup. Seeing the copious amounts of food of all kinds that go into people's trolleys made me think that if for some reason supermarket deliveries were hit by a crisis and stopped, we would all be in big trouble. Hardly any of us would have access to homegrown food, a lot of people wouldn't know how to grow it and even if we learned to grow it we wouldn't know how to cook it.

Hmm where do I start this week.

Supermarkets and Freezers :
See : http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/01/supermarket-fridges-pollu...
and : http://www.chillingfacts.org.uk/

Think again the next time you buy something which is needing chilled or frozen. Are the big players using the right gases ? - Equally, are the next replacements any safer ?...

FIT's and Starts
Great news that the UK Gov has announced the Feed In Tariffs for renewables that generate electricity. Solar PV, Wind, and even a trial for micro CHP. Exciting times.

Some time ago I promised myself to stop ranting about big companies and their complete lack of responsibility when it comes to our planet. It gets quite boring and doesn't spread good vibes. Yet after starting my post I realised this was exactly what I was doing again - somehow these companies keep winding me up. So in the spirit of not wanting to waste I have decided to publish this post anyway: