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Introduction
Welcome to Klockworks, a collection of my writings as a journalist and author. Confessions of an Eco-Shopper is a companion blog to my book, Confessions of an Eco-Shopper: the true story of one woman's mission to go green, published by Hodder. The purpose of the blog is to keep you abreast of any updates to the content of the book, as well as allowing me to comment on current environmental stories. If you'd like to get in touch with me about the book or the blog, email me at kate@ecosmartshopper.co.uk The Press Column contains my weekly columns for The Press newspaper in York from 2006-2007. Dangerous Love contains interviews about my true-life/crime memoir published by Ebury in 2005. Reviews is a collection of various theatre and music reviews that I've done for The Press and BBC North Yorkshire More information about Dangerous Love and my other published works can be found on the Klockworks Website. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy! |
Wednesday, August 13
Eco-Shopper book launch
by
Kate Lock
on Wed 13 Aug 2008 00:19 BST
Great turn-out for the launch at Borders in Daveygate, York, last Thursday - and I found a novel way to capture the punters' attention: raffle a wormery! more »
Tuesday, August 12
Wednesday, August 6
Carbon footprints: I'll show you mine . . .
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Kate Lock
on Wed 06 Aug 2008 00:36 BST
Carbon footprints - gee whiz, what complicated things they are to calculate. Any formula that requires me to physically locate the 'leccy bill (it was somewhere in that pile on the sideboard, I think ...), let alone start doing maths with it, tends to put me off straight away. more »
Tuesday, August 5
Monday, August 4
Eco-Shopper in the Daily Mail!
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Kate Lock
on Mon 04 Aug 2008 17:26 BST
Confessions of an Eco-Shopper was featured in a double-page spread in the Daily Mail today (Lifestyle, pp48-49).
Under the headline, ‘Dying to be beautiful’, the standfirst asks: ‘Are your beauty products killing you? In a new book, Kate Lock reveals what’s really in the bottles’.
more »
Sunday, August 3
Home to roast? More poultry matters . . .
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Kate Lock
on Sun 03 Aug 2008 22:53 BST
I didn’t taste-test organic or free-range chicken in my book, though I did with some other foods. However, from my own experience I’ve always found birds bred with higher welfare standards have a nicer flavour. But is that just because I want it to? more »
Chirpy Chirpy cheap-cheap (chicken)
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Kate Lock
on Sun 03 Aug 2008 22:51 BST
Apologies to blog readers too young to remember Middle of the Road’s incredibly annoying 1971 no 1 hit, Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, but it’s kind of appropriate here . . . though I wonder who’s feeling more chirpy about the future of cheap chicken now?
I’ve mentioned Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s campaign against intensively farmed chicken in Confessions of an Eco-Shopper in Aisle 2, Challenge 6 (‘Ready meals v proper dinners’), which started with his Channel 4 programme, Hugh’s Chicken Run. more »
Friday, June 27
How 'ethical' is Primark?
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Kate Lock
on Fri 27 Jun 2008 02:43 BST
In Confessions of an Eco-Shopper I devote a whole chapter – or ‘Aisle’ as they’re called in the book (it’s structured like a trip around a supermarket) to clothing challenges, including the difficulty of being eco-smart and sartorially stylish on a normal person’s budget. And since a normal person’s budget tends towards Primark jeans at £12 rather than ethical brand Del Forte’s (admittedly lovely) jeans that cost £134, that’s some challenge. more »
Wednesday, June 25
Spring cleaning, unplugged
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Kate Lock
on Wed 25 Jun 2008 00:49 BST
Making little changes really can make a difference. Here’s an example.
The other day I decided to pull our fridge-freezer out of its corner to clean the coils at the back because when they get covered with dust and fluff they become less efficient and it uses more electricity and so creates more carbon, etc. I also decided to defrost it because having a freezer compartment clogged up with ice increases its energy consumption more »
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