Boxed in by all these earnest environmental articles, Eye has retreated to the kitchen!
The editor takes a rather religious approach to food, so we have fielded our guest editor Laurie Michaelis with some everyday culinary dilemmas facing Quaker cooks who wish to play fair with the environment. Readers have supplied the questions.

I have recently moved to a flat with a large fridge-freezer. I don't use the freezer but there isn’t a separate switch. I've filled it with screwed up newspaper to cut running costs but what else can I do?

Laurie: I think it's brilliant that you've developed a lifestyle that doesn’t require a freezer. The average fridge-freezer uses about 600kWh of electricity a year, costing about £60 and generating 300kg of CO2. If you bought an efficient (A+ rated) new fridge without a freezer compartment it would use about 110-120 kWh per year, costing only £12/year to run and generating 60kg of CO2. So if you don’t need the freezer I would get rid of it! (Filling up the space in a fridge or freezer does save energy if you open the door frequently, as it cuts down on the volume of cold air that escapes each time. I'm afraid it probably won’t make much difference if you never use it).
The editor stepped in here with one of her own cranky ideas: Rent your freezer out to the neighbours, as I do. They've never got enough space for all those windfall apples, mashed up for apple sauce, and blackberries and plums from the summer. Use a barter system - you provide the accommodation in exchange for a few bags of fruit. What’s cranky about that?