Just a few weeks into his mayoralty and Boris Johnson seems to have twigged that a green outlook for the city is the root to a better environment.

Following his manifesto pledge to make all areas of London “cleaner and greener”, he announced this week that he will plant 10,000 new trees to improve street scenery.

And I would like to think that the funding of this project is in some way down to my shared blog spot with the aforementioned Mr Johnson.

Working in a newspaper office, there is, inevitably, a fair amount of paper around, most of which lies idle on my desk in what I claim to be a filing system.

But when opening the post the other day, I noticed the speed at which I was accumulating excess paper and used envelopes.

And as I sat, staring at this pile of rubbish, (which bears no relation to my articles or blogs before anyone jokes) it became apparent to me that it could be too easy to flout the recycling responsibilities.

The green drive seems to be steering in the right direction across households in Barnet.

It appears a large group of residents have got their act in gear to reduce their level of carbon emissions when travelling around the borough.

Those exhausted of churning out thousands of tonnes of CO2 have given their own cars the boot in favour of a shared alternative.

For me, staying in on Saturday nights usually consists of generic family TV viewing and wholly unhealthy eating.

Neither of which offer much satisfaction nor benefit the environment in anyway.

However, this weekend, my lonely night in could turn into a massive multi-million person protest to raise awareness of environmental issues, which is slightly more inspiring than Casualty.

Women often complain about how difficult they find it to get their bloke to go out shopping for new clothes.

But according to new research, that’s not where the issue with men and fashion ends.

In fact, after hard fought battles to get clothes into the wardrobe, men now apparently struggle to throw them out in an environmentally helpful way.

There always seems to be at least two things I forget when I go shopping.

One is usually the most obvious item and actually the thing I went to get, probably bread or milk.

The other thing though, often seems to be plastic bags, I always forget to take my own plastic bags, it's shocking I admit.