Here’s a Grumpy Environmentalist article that I’ve written for Greenbang on managing your own waste. And by waste I mean human waste that you flush down the toilet and not the contents your comparably sanitised kitchen bin.
The Grumpy Environmentalist is an occasional series of articles that I write for Greenbang about my family’s efforts to renovate a 300-year old farmhouse in Northumberland around eco-principals.
My latest Greenbang Grumpy Environmentalist column has just been posted. It describes efforts to manage the waste on my family’s renovation project and discovers how truly rubbish we are at recycling and reuse in the UK.
Greenbang has published an update on my family’s renovation project. We’re restoring a 300-year listed farmhouse in Northumberland and attempting to live by eco-principles.
It’s called the Grumpy Environmentalist because we started out two-years ago with the best intentions but are constantly tested by the need to balance historic restoration with eco-measures.
The latest article reports on wooden shutters and cling film as alternatives to double glazing, compromises we’re making over insulation and the restoration of an old cast iron kitchen range.
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The Greenbang team has kindly indulged me with an occasional column called the Grumpy Environmentalist in which I plan to write about my family’s efforts to renovate our 300-year farmhouse in the Northumberland National Park around eco-principals.
Grumpy Environmentalist because two-years in we’re struggling to balance eco with archaeology, bats, heritage, planning and cost.
I caught up with Greenbang.com’s Dan Ilett this week for breakfast. He’s a journalist and entrepreneur that is building a great business.
But he’s pissed off with PR people asking for stuff for free. It seems that PRs are starting to confuse the line between blog and commercial media outlet.
Earlier in the month Ewan MacLeod wrote an article on the site about how PRs representing EDF and Shell had sought favours.
“Burston Marseteller (Shell’s PR company of choice) [emailed] asking if we’d be interested in a) providing feedback on [its] videos) and b) posting the videos here on Greenbang.”
This was followed in short order by a request from Lexus PR, the communications firm for energy giant EDF for Greebang to host PDFs on carbon management and energy buying.
I suggested to Dan that he follows the lead set by publications such as Techcrunch and sets out his rules of engagement with PR people in clear terms.
He’s since published a manifesto: embargos, freebies and paradigm shifting bollocks are out and valuable business news is the order of the day.
PRs be warned.
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