21 February 2010

How We Are Reducing Our Family Environmental Impact – Insulating the Loft

One of the major users of energy in a house is for heating the building.  Space and water heating in homes gives off about 20% of the UK's carbon dioxide emissions, which is about 5 tonnes CO2 per home every year.

13 February 2010

How We Are Reducing Our Family Environmental Impact – Getting Started

I thought we could share how we have tried to reduce our carbon footprint and what we are still looking at doing.

11 February 2010

New Information About Global Warming

I've been reading New Scientist this week (6/2/2010) and there were 2 interesting articles on climate change this week:

02 February 2010

Carbon Offsets and Steenberg Carbon Footprints

Every year on slightly ad hoc basis, I sit down and try and calculate our carbon footprint and then offset for the greenhouse gasses that make up our carbon footprint.  It's a guesstimate because it does not include all aspects of the Steenbergs busi...

01 February 2010

Trying To Build A Better Spices Business

When Sophie and I set up Steenbergs, we were very clear in our own minds about what Steenbergs as a business wanted to offer as products - the widest and most exotic range of great spices, herbs, seasonings and teas from around the world that are gro...

24 December 2009

Christmas Eve And It's Still Snowing

21 December 2009

UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen is the perfect example for the phrase "a damp squib".  Squibs are small explosives that are used for special effects and in the past for clearing away coal in the mines when they were sold as "Miners' Sa...

13 December 2009

Water, Water Everywhere And Not A Drop To Drink

As world leaders take themselves very seriously and think themselves very powerful as they negotiate their climate change treaties in Copenhagen, while they drive their big limos and they fly in from around the globe, I have been thinking about water...

19 November 2009

Antony Gormley And 2 Modern Icons (Or Maybe It's 4)

I have just been for a short family visit to Corbridge which is from where I hail.  I am born and bred in Northumberland and have Northumberland, the Tyne and the North coursing through my veins and deeply embedded in my psyche.  I love the North and...

17 November 2009

Keep Governments Out Of Saving The World

One of the areas of society that is exercising my thoughts at present is how societies organise themselves, are governed and whether we (as citizens) are actually free ... or just whether we are being told that we are free, but in reality are all jus...

15 October 2009

The Icefjord Commitment

"Amidst the wisdom and majesty of water, ice and sunlight, we have prayed within the realm of our own traditions.