I’ve been contemplating the insanity of sewage systems recently – and here’s the alternative. (Hattip to Green Reading.)

Just a pity that the idea hadn’t got across to my grandparents, who had a holiday home at Fitzroy Falls in Australia where there was no sewage – only a garbage bin under the loo seat. Now emptying that wasn’t fun – but they’d missed out on the composting materials bit….

We all know how fake the claims of the Labour government are to green-ness, but a Guardian piece sets out the figures on just how bad.

That’s well worth reading, but don’t follow the next link unless you are in a resolutely good mood: Bill McGuire suggests that signficant climate change could induce a storm of volcanic activity.

Being female and blonde has its advantages when trying to deliver leaflets through security doors – some people, particularly those with camera door phones – are surprisingly inclined to let you in. But the gentleman who did so last night, when he saw me in person, in the full light of the corridor outside his flat, need not have looked quite so disappointed….

The Yangtze dolphin has been officially declared extinct.

There will be many more species to follow.

… no, not a joke – there is an issue here:

The problem is that the vast majority of snails on the market have been picked from the wild in countries where there are few or no pollution controls. Take the legendary Burgundy, Helix pomatia: none of the specimens found in shops or restaurants today actually come from Burgundy – they are all picked in Ukraine and Belarus and sent to France.

Take what is basically an ordinary wood-framed house, and make it zero-carbon – in a very tough environment – a remote Scottish island.