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"Creativity, recycling and a dash of joy"

In 2007 Claire Morsman lived on a houseboat in London. She could see plastic rubbish floating past the boat every day. She decided to start making fabric bags out of recycled material and hand them out to family, friends and strangers to gently persuade people to stop using plastic bags. Nine years later, 200 000 Morsbags have been made in the UK and abroad. It's a simple and very powerful idea! Read my interview with Claire below. What does it take to make a Morsbag? You need to put aside 15 minutes, take a look at the pattern ( or watch the video below ) , rummage around for some spare material, cut, sew, attach label , admire and smile. You can have a slice of cake while you decide whom to give it to. Making a Morsbag takes very little time but involves creativity, recycling and a dash of joy. That’s why thousands of people have told us they’ve become addicted and just have to keep on making and giving! Morsbags are given for free by volunteer makers t

10 tips to reduce your electricity consumption

I am on a mission to reduce the electricity consumption of our household by at least 10% by October of next year. Our current consumption is reasonable judging by the average UK stats. Between September 2019 and October of this year, we used 3113 kWh. That is below the average consumption for a house in outer London, according to official 2018 stats. Considering that my husband has been working from home during half of this period and that I also work from home, I think this is pretty good. However, because we are with Ecotricity, one of the handful of truly green energy providers in the UK , our electricity bill is higher than average (£727 against £679). To reduce our bill, we could move to another energy provider. It’s not a solution that I favour as I think getting our energy from a 100% green energy provider is one of the most important things we can do to support a greener economy and fight climate change. Also, collectively, we need to cut our energy consumption massively in

Keep warm and reduce your gas consumption

How do you keep warm at home while keeping your gas bill and your gas consumption low? I am sure that there are many of us asking ourselves this question right now. Gas boilers are the main source of heating in the UK and a very big source of carbon emissions. “Heating is the largest single source of carbon emissions in the UK, making up more than one-third of the total. Decarbonising heat is the biggest energy challenge in tackling the climate emergency, particularly because it requires action in millions of individual homes. Currently, just 1m of the UK’s 27m homes have low-carbon heat”, the Guardian noted in an article published last July. If you have the opportunity to retrofit your house to install a heat pump, I strongly recommend you take advantage of the Green Homes Grant to do it (you must redeem a voucher and ensure improvements are completed by 31 March 2022 ). If it’s not a possibility you have, don’t despair! You can still reduce your carbon emissions by reducing your g

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