A study has found that household cleaning sprays and air fresheners are linked to a significantly higher risk of adult asthma. (It had already been shown that in industrial seetings the contents were dangerous. One of those “is that really very surprising” studies, but hopefully one that will lead to a few less horrible chemicals being produced and flung around the environment with gay abandon.

I am being paid (no not a fortune) to post the following video on this blog – and I’ll be donating the payment to the Green Party.

It is described as “offbeat, satirical look at how climate change has affected the mating habits of the birds and the bees in the UK countryside”. I’m not sure that’s quite how I’d describe it — the humour is a little on the obvious side for what I’d call satire — but it is made I’m told for a train company (although so far as I can see there’s no branding in it) and is supposed to promote train travel.

There’ll be a small payment for each UK viewing.

(The source is Unruly Media.)

The problem with not taking plastic carrier bags when you go shopping is that when you need some, as for bundling up collections of Green Party leaflets for collection by volunteers for delivery, you haven’t got any. So if you saw a woman slightly furtively pulling plastic bags out of the recycling bin in Bloomsbury Waitrose this evening, yes that was me…

One thing that amazes me is how many anti-environmentalists like to claim that “green” energy sources are impractical, and will never supply what we need. But what’s lacking is not the possibilities, but the will.

I’ve just been pointed to one other alternative form of solar energy, and been musing on the inventiveness of Homo sapiens sapiens, as delightfully demonstrated in the video below…