Crap at the environment: A year in the life of one man trying to save the planet - Mark Watson

He used to be totally crap. Now, he's only marginally better.

But one thing is for certain, Perrier Award-winning comedian Mark Watson's mission to turn himself and other equally hopeless people 'green' will have you in biodegradable stiches.

After all, what the environmental movement has been waiting for is a plane-frequenting, blissfully ignorant comedian with no credibility  whatsoever to tackle one of the most important issues of our time.

He's lived for (almost) a week without plastic. He's ransacked libraries in order to read frightening books on climate change. He's lured audiences outside to plant trees, confronted his morbid fear of bike-riding, even started eating vegetables. It has, at times, been a gruelling exercise. But an exercise that has brought him to the attention of the most famous almost-president in the world, Al Gore.

For when non-expert Mark Watson announced his intention to spend the year becoming less Crap At The Environment, within 24 hours, 500 mates and fans had joined him. This is the story of what happened next...