Gemma Charles' Green Blog - All Comments

re: DECC in the dock

Jeremy Lee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:11:34 GMT

I'm no longer a climate change denier but I can't tell you why for legal reasons

re: DECC in the dock

john lush — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:12:58 GMT

If there was overwhelming evidence, then there wouldn't be such a vast number of 'deniers'. Did you know that the average world temperature hasn't gone up since 1998, or that man creates a mere 0.001% of carbon emmisssions, rotting leaves in forests and cows (9%)produce far more, and yet I don't hear calls to kill all cows, or a mandate to clear up all the leaves!

Look at the facts, don't believe the hype !

re: Tap water takes the fight to the capital

Claire Murphy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:11:34 GMT

Hammersmith to bring in public fountains? My god, it'll soon be like Rome around here

re: Health enforcer heads for the climate department

Gemma Charles — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:30:11 GMT

Hi Tim

Would like to know your problems with PAS2020. Drop me a line on gemma.charles@haymarket.com

re: Health enforcer heads for the climate department

Tim Craig — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:47:49 GMT

I look forward to Will Cavendish taking up his brief as the director general of the Department for Energy & Climate Change especially as he a 'strong supporter of effective self regulation'. Perhaps he could start with the DMA's PAS2020?

re: Health enforcer heads for the climate department

Tim Craig — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:43:17 GMT

I have to confess I hope that he does take some tough decisions especially on effective self regulation. He could start with PAS2020

re: Newly reduced, sometimes reused and hardly ever recycled

Gemma Charles — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:51:46 GMT

Good point Eric, I was amazed by some stats I saw the other day about Google's servers.

re: Newly reduced, sometimes reused and hardly ever recycled

Eric Carter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:30:11 GMT

The demise of the paper will save a trees. But the the online newspapers that are replacing traditional newspapers aren't entirely green. All those servers the web lives on sucks up a lot of electricity.

re: A Stella(r) idea

Jeremy Lee — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:05:36 GMT

Adnams was the first in this area I think and it certainly wasn't for superficial reasons so all credit to them.

Hedgerows sounds like a stunt - the irony is that hedges are the sort of places that you find empty cans of Stella, rusting away after being thrown from a passing car.

re: BMW makes its excuses and leaves F1

Ed Kemp — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:56:50 GMT

I agree Gemma. What a load of old cobblers. they are quitting because they are a shoddy team.

re: More hot air?

Andrew Freeman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:52:31 GMT

Effective for whom? Of course, yes it might be more effective at making us - the great British populace - more frugal with our energy use, but what FD is going to sign off a marketing budget where the ROI will be an overall decline in the market, without any posible gain in share to offset it? Not so much highly unlikely as utterly impossible (and deeply anti-capitalist - a major recommendation in my book, but not one that floats most shareholders boats!)

re: Every little (green) bit helps

Peter Martin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:11:03 GMT

I have my issues with Tesco on many counts, but in this I can only concur.

I just would wish they would walk the talk they spout on packaging a bit more consistently.

re: Waste not want not

Peter Martin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:07:59 GMT

I think they are gunning for 'use by' out of all the worthless derriere covering (apt in other ways, all things considered, food-poisoning-wise) legals that's all it's really good for.

At Junkk.com Peter, who I work with, operates on 'look, sniff & lick': in that order (this is critical - and if you get to stage 3 you're committed... at least to not putting it back).

No obvious odd, unexpected colours, go to stage 2. If it's milk-based and smells of cheese when it isn't cheese, there may be a problem, but not one that a teaspoon probably still can't solve.

And if a morsel tastes OK but you are still not sure then a microwave can work wonders.

What's the worst that can happen? Oh... gotta dash!