MyEnviroMind

This. Bill Nye, what a guy. I used to watch Bill Nye the Science Guy in my Year 3 Science class. Hearing him again brings an essence of nostalgia. It feels like an age. It makes me realise how long we've known about our world's danger, and pushed its screams to the side. How many opportunities we've had. How many times we've ignored. How many times we've 'tried'. But, no more negativity! Now is our chance to take what we've learnt and DO SOMETHING about it. Let's cease this one and last opportunity. Our only opportunity to make right what we did wrong. We can do so many things and make so many changes to our lives. It only takes a small nudge of positivity within us.  We're not that far but we are getting further and further away from a stable world. H _ M     :) Bibliography: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/climate-101

I've never been a history fanatic. I'll admit, every now and then I feel like checking out a museum or watching a documentary, but it's never been of important interest to me. Needless to say, that doesn't mean I can't appreciate an explicit, colourful and humorous timeline when I see it. Earlier today, I was checking out my Twitter feed and this popped up on my feed; 'Two charts show carbon pollution will end the era of stable climate. Only one is funny.' Now whomever created this was one of those clever, intuitive type. A bit long, I grant you, but just hold out until the end. You'll be grateful you saw it. I'd never seen any presentation of our situation like this before - what a fantastic way to do it! If only more people knew about it. Perhaps you could print it out, stick it in a classroom or pin it in the workplace. Just to get it seen. In busses, magazines, newspapers. It's eye-catching look & witty comments will grab the ...

'TAKE A LOOK AT YOURSELF AND MAKE A CHANGE' Ever feel like you're not being yourself? Like you're following a social consensus in order to feel self-assured and 'normal'? It's what the famous ones do, what the government allow. It's OK...? Well no. It's not always 'OK'. The fact is, nobody knows  what's right and what's wrong. That is why there's so much debate and confusion. So much anger, so much hate. We have juries for this exact reason. An example of mine is energy. The exponential population growth has resulted in an ever increasing demand in fuel for heating and electricity for appliances such as kettles, TV's and phones, which are now becoming part of routine life. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to prevent economic development and, believe me, I don't want to go back to medieval life where people just  survived  and struggled to live through the freezing Winter months - that is definitely not...

OK . So, in the news this week: 'MPs call for a ban on plastic microbeads.'  What are microbeads I hear you ask? What do they do? Why does it affect me? Microbeads can be seen here in toothpaste credit: www.medicaldaily.com Microbeads are small pieces of plastic, smaller than 5 mm, commonly made of polyethylene or even other crude oil products such as polypropylene and polystyrene. These beads provide shape and abrasion to products that need to scrub off dead skin, dirt and food. They are used in a vast range of cleaning & cosmetic products that we all use daily and their minute size means they can easily pass through our drains and water filtration systems until they float right out into the ocean. A single tube of Johnson & Johnson’s Clean & Clear facial scrub can contain up to 330,000 plastic beads. 100,000 microbeads can be washed down the drain, from some products, in just one application. So what's all the fuss about? I've never had ...

Hi *insert name of you who is reading this right now at this very moment in time*!, Well I don't really know where to begin... Thank you for choosing to come here out of your own free will I suppose! My name is Harriet and this is my little environmental blog. I don't really know what to expect, or what I would like to achieve out of this - I know blogging isn't going to stop the world's temperatures soaring & at most is probably a hypocritical action  - but I've known for a long time now that I've wanted to do something against it, something stronger than just switching a light off, something more influential than just looking disgusted at litter on the street and perhaps, in conversation, I hope to learn new ways that can make a change. Positively. For the better for longer. In what little time we have left, I would like to work with you and try, just a little bit, to save the world. That's a big ask. Although that goal seems unrealistic, of co...