Ten Things You Can Do To Green Your World:1) Try to buy local, seasonal, organic fresh food whenever you can. If you use a supermarket, don’t buy fresh food that has been flown in from overseas because carbon emissions from aeroplanes are a big problem. Best of all, sign up for an organic box distribution scheme like Abel & Cole (http://www.abel-cole.co.uk/) or Riverford Farm (www.riverford.co.uk).
2) Try to refuse plastic bags and surplus packaging in shops. Keep your spare plastic bags by the front door and take some with you when you go shopping.
3) Switch to a renewable energy provider like Good Energy (http://www.good-energy.co.uk/) or Ecotricity (www.ecotricity.co.uk)
4) Buy a subsidised compost bin from Camden Council (call 0845 130 6090) and compost your garden and kitchen waste. If you don’t have a garden, buy a wormery to transform your kitchen waste into compost (www.greengardener.co.uk/worms.htm)
5) Pay an environmental charity like Climate Care (http://www.climatecare.org/) to offset the carbon for any flights you take. They will invest in environmentally friendly projects around the world. Of course, taking fewer flights would help even more.
6) Buy a £30 grey water diverter to water your garden during a drought (www.green-shopping.co.uk/reviews/reviews49.html).
7) Stop buying milk in tetrapacks (which can't be recycled) and plastic bottles (which are expensive to recycle) and sign up with your local milkman who can deliver organic milk in a glass bottle. (Terry the milkman delivers to Belsize and surrounding areas: 07960 856181)
8) Change the light bulbs in your house to energy-saving light bulbs and always switch off electrical appliances rather than leave them in standby mode eg televisions, mobile phone chargers, computers etc.
9) Try to carry a travel mug or a plastic water bottle with you so that you don’t need to use disposable coffee cups or buy additional bottles of water.
10) Take your friends to see Al Gore’s film on Climate Change “An Inconvenient Truth”.
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