Imagine a shop where every single gadget, ornament, household article and item of soft furnishing that you’ve seen on your favourite eco website is there to be looked at, touched and considered for purchase.

Spring has sprung - or at least the bulbs are coming up - and us less hardy cyclists are oiling our chains ready for eight months of feeling better about ourselves. Cycling has become my way of getting some sport into part of my working day. But I am still in the minority. Why are we being so slow at making our towns and cities more cyclable and walkable? We keep being told about a British obesity crisis, many of our cities' roads are clogged up seven days a week, car exhausts are blamed as a major contributor to breathing-related afflictions, the race for oil is well and truly on, and then there is that behemoth of a story: the world’s very existence as a climatically stable place is being threatened by our carbon emissions.