Earth saving update

Well it's been a week since i last said anything about my little things that I've been doing to help out our planet. So...what have i done....well first up, my bedroom no longer has those evil incandescent light bulbs that you can still buy in the shops. Now i have nice shiny energy saving bulbs. I must say, I'm IMPRESSED! They cost around £4 each, which i didn't think was that bad, considering they last up to 10 times as long as a normal bulb and don't cost anywhere near 10 times as much, normal evil bulbs don't cost 4p do they???

Also, I'm impressed by their performance, they not the ones that take a day or so to actually switch on, as soon as you flip the switch, its on! It gives a really nice warm glow in the room, a lot more subtle than my previous bulbs. So not only are they a little step in stopping climate change, but they are generally better. Oh and in case your interested (which you should be reading this blog! :) ) i ordered my light bulbs from www.lightbulbs-direct.com I must say i was super impressed, good delivery time and good value as well. So if your reading this in room with those horrid bulbs that waste so much power, get yourselves onto that website and order some! And no, i don't work for them before you think i do, I'm just trying to spread the word.

Which brings me neatly onto my next thing. I signed up to Greenpeace's "7 step climate campaign" Its great, its basically a task every week for 7 weeks that you can do, to help combat climate change. I am in week 3. The task this week is to spread the word about banning incandescent light bulbs, and letting people know about the campaign. I guess this blog is part of that, as well as that, you can download funky signatures and posters for your website or to print off and put in your windows at home or at work. Please go here...http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change and sign up to the campaign, then you will get a task every week to complete, no kids, its not a difficult, exam-like task, before you start shouting at me. It's fun, I'm REALLY enjoying it, it really encourages me to think about changes and really provides good, solid goals to achieve.

So there you have it, since my last post, i have ditched the evil bulb, completed Week 2 of the Greepeace campaign as well as starting to complete the Week 3 step. Other than that, not much news, i ditched my car from Tuesday off last week until yesterday. Just relied on train to get from Swansea (nearest city to me) to Cardiff (where i work) and then from Cardiff to Bristol (where Vix lives) for the weekend. All in all, was good not to drive, in a twisted way, i do like trains, you see some bizarre people and its just fun, even when they are late, i don't see the point in slagging the trains off, cos at least we have trains, yeah OK, they are late at times, yeah they are crowded at times etc, but id still rather be in a train than driving on our congested and quite frankly, evil roads.

As well as the above, obviously my plastic bag thing is going well, still not had a plastic bag from a shop, must be getting on for over a month now since i have clapped eyes on the evil things. I still think shops should not offer plastic bags to you. I have seen so many people buying one thing who have almost been "convinced" by check-out staff to take a bag. WHY??? Wouldn't it be better for the shop to wait until a person asks for a bag? Rather than putting ideas in peoples heads that they really must have this non bio-degradable bag, which they will probably lob in the bin once they get home. Seriously, some major shops need educating, they are all there with their bags for life, but then still are too quick to offer people other bags. Not naming shops here, but the big food supermarkets, some of them need to look at their plastic bag policies.

Oh and hello to the "Adopt a grandma" girl from outside Cardiff Central Station, she was kinda cool, even if she was confused by my shemagh which i was wearing around my neck.

Hopefully now this weekend, i can continue my quest for eco-fying myself and helping our planet. Please go to the Greenpeace site and sign up to the climate change campaign, we can all make a difference, and it doesn't even take much effort.



Cheers guys :)