Just came across your blog. I like it - it’s nice to see a good critical environmental blog. As I said on Tim Worstall’s blog, I want to see more evidence on this plastic bag issue really. M&S strike me as bandwagoning somewhat.

I like the Fair Trade article as well. If you don’t have it, I strongly recommend getting hold of “The Undercover Economist” by Tim Harford. There’s a chapter where he talks about Fair Trade coffee, and describes how it’s basically been used as a scam to get customers to pay more more coffee, while very little of the excess goes back to fair trade farmers.

I’ve added you to the blog roll at http://www.layscience.net

Martin