I watched, and pretty much enjoyed, the original series of It’s Not Easy Being Green (BBC Two, Wednesday, 11 February, which featured Dick Strawbridge and his family building The Greenest House There Ever Was. I enjoyed the ingenuity of the whole thing… turning your own shite into fertiliser and building a waterwheel. It was a bit like Grand Designs, only without the Apple Mac and Zero 7 soundtrack. So, when I saw it in the listings again, I completely ignored it. I thought it was a repeat or worse still, a catch-up show. Last night I tuned and found that the show itself has undergone something of a make-over.

Instead of being a show that followed the Strawbridge family into greenery, It’s Not Easy Being Green has reinvented itself as a magazine show (on recycled paper, naturally) which is no longer about the journey and all about the tips.

In a way, the point of the show is lost slightly, because it was fun watching the engineering of this and that, usually ending up with Dick Strawbridge getting arseholed with a bunch of students. Now, the whole thing is a little more… telly.

However, as a tip-show goes, it’s reasonably good fun and aims to be to green living what Top Gear is to driving. So what tips did we get? Well, one was how to make your own cider, which felt a bit pointless as most of us don’t have apple trees and probably won’t go out and buy a huge cider press.

Elsewhere, we discovered that we could buy nuts to wash out clothes with instead of washing powder, via a very dodgy ‘sketch’, which again, was pretty useful, but slightly pointless because, well, these nuts come from India and invariably have considerably bigger carbon footprints than some Lever product or something.

The Indie Myleene Klass, Lauren Laverne, featured, walking around her local park with a frizzy haired woman, foraging. Together, they ate some hedge and a flower bud. Lauren gamely ate a nettle leaf too. Again though, I can’t see anyone taking this up at home, unless they were already inclined.

I guess, as fun as the show was, it all felt a bit pointless. I mean, it’s commendable that someone would want to implore us all to think a bit greener, live a bit greener… but when all said and done, eating hob nobs and being lazy is far preferable than rooting around in a hedge feeling like a vagrant.