I'd have expected to see this in The Guardian, Observer or even the Independent newspapers here in the UK, but to see a special section titled "How To Be Green" in the Times was a welcome surprise. I think it says the mainstream is increasingly interested in being "Green" and that has got to be a good thing.
There were indeed some good items in the section such as reminding us how many transport miles and thus how much CO2 emissions are involved in many food products. One New Zealand blueberry = 10,732 g of CO2 while a UK Cox apple = 33 g. And, there's a good round up of some of the electric vehicle choices we have nowadays.
However, (and pardon me for another rant) I noticed Zac Goldsmith is still hyping Ecotricity in favour of other good green electricity suppliers like Good Energy and Green Energy - and for all the wrong reasons. As I mentioned in my letter to him last year, the argument he advances and which was put forward by whichgreen.org (a division of Ecotricity mind you!) is a complete fallacy. Yet he gives ecotricity top billing in his list and he promotes whichgreen without declaring its affiliation. I use Good Energy because they're great people and because they do just as much as anyone else to promote new green generation in spite of the whichgreen argument. Of course I should declare I've done some consulting for them in the past, but that wouldn't colour my views and I'd be just as happy to consult for Ecotricity one day in the future.
