The price of a cup of coffee. That’s one estimate of what it will cost each of us every day for the next 20 years to break the fossil fuel habit of generations and turn to renewables instead.

To prevent dangerous climate change, levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere need to be cut by 80 per cent by the middle of the century – and that’s relative to 1990 levels.

The UN says the renewable energy that can already be harnessed economically would supply the world’s electricity needs 15 times over. As yet only a tiny proportion of energy is generated this way, but replace existing coal, gas and oil-fired power stations with renewables and you achieve a colossal environmental win.

One long standing-objection to renewables – that wave and sun power can never be relied on for a steady supply, day in day out – is vanishing too as new ways to store energy are rolled out. The nuclear industry can no longer sell itself as the only reliable source of low-carbon baseload electricity.

Source: The New Scientist.

It’s interesting to note that the Texan oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens wants to build the worlds biggest wind farm in Texas.

Our first few batches of T shirts that we had printed were all made from organic cotton, we’ve had some made from quick growing renewable bamboo too.

Time goes by and we work hard to control our supply chain, now all the T shirts we print are climate neutral, which means the industrial greenhouse gas emissions used in producing them have been reduced to pre-industrial levels, this is achieved through low-impact (low emission) organic agriculture and carbon neutral industrial manufacturing, this is possible by substituting energy use from fossil fuel powered power stations (grey electricity) with clean renewable ‘green’ energy from wind turbines and solar power.

The wind turbines generate renewable (green) electricity for the industrial manufacturing, while solar power is used to pre-heat the water used in the dyeing and finishing processes.

Our clothing is climate neutral, not carbon neutral, because we hope to reduce our carbon emissions per garment by up to 80-85%, compared to emissions generated by the manufacture of conventional cotton garments. A reduction of 80-85% is in balance with the environment.

Fancy a cuppa?

Well you could have quite a few if you manage to win this luxury tea lover’s hamper from Harrods.

Brimming with the finest teas from Harrods magnificent Food Halls, the Harrods Tea Lovers sumptuous hamper celebrates the quintessential British favourite.

All you need to do to enter and be in with a chance of winning is simply become a fan of We’re British, Innit and then one person will be picked at random.

The closing date for the competition is the end of September.

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Were-British-Innit/41306671656?ref=ts


From alcopops to X Factor via Churchill and Ovaltine, celebrate modern-day Britain with We’re British, Innit – an acutely observed laugh-out-loud A-Z of all that we are and all that we do.

Whether its our insatiable passion for tea, a sense of fair play, or desire to form an orderly queue at the drop of a hat, or simply our ability to screech ‘coo-ee’ at the top of our lungs, everything you’ve ever regarded as being uniquely British is within the book.

A book for every Brit, tourist and foreigner alike, this honest and amusing dictionary of Britain encapsulates all the sights, sounds and even smells that make Britain what it is today.

It is guaranteed to bring a smile of recognition to even the stiffest of upper lips.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Iain Aitch has written for the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Observer, the Times, the Independent, the Idler and Bizarre among others. He is also London Editor of San Francisco’s Dwell magazine. Guardian readers chose Iain’s articles as the best of the year in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Before turning to writing he pretended to work in an unemployment benefit office, but actually spent four hours a day playing cards and drafting the world’s first satirical revolutionary economics newsletter. He is the inventor of ‘World Phone in Sick Day’, and also initiated the annual London Santacon: a gathering of hundreds of Santas intent on festive mayhem. These events have been the subject of documentaries by Channel 4 (which saw the Daily Mirror calling for his imprisonment) and BBC Radio 4 respectively. He lives in London and We’re British, Innit is his second book.

Tea Appreciation Society’s very own Susie Clarke has entered the T4 music competition Orange unsigned Act! (previously known as TMobileAct Unsigned).

Following on from Susies initiation into the world of tv via the MTV show earlier this year she is pretty well prepared now to go for the big one! And this one really is big and scary; it’s mainstream television so the exposure is HUGE and the prize is a bona fide record contract with Universal.

The 25 acts with the most votes are eligible to audition to take part. As you can imagine competition is massive for a place, literally thousands upon thousands of acts have entered so Susie really is up against it, but as she admits, you’ve got to give it a go!

This is where we all come in, everyone’s help is needed.

Please sign up as a fan to vote (don’t be put off, they won’t spam you)
1) go to http://orangeunsignedact.co.uk/acts/susieclarke
2) Click sign up to vote
3) Confirm your registration
4) Vote for Susie Clarke! Once a day, every day until 14th September.

p.s. you’re allowed to vote 3 times a day, and each vote has to go to a different act, so if you’re a fan of other acts in the competition you won’t have to choose your loyalty, which is nice

Please show your support for Susie and help her get that record contract.

www.myspace.com/susieclarke

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Susie-Clarke/15107186139