Village Underground is new charity supporting small new businesses, and is working with Tube Lines to recycle old London Underground carriages that have been in disuse for years. In August six old Jubilee line carriages were removed from sidings in Uxbridge and taken to Essex to be cleaned up and readied to be installed as …
There are just two weeks left for you to enter our prize draw to win a £25 Natural Nursery voucher . Natural Nursery are a family owned business selling products for ethical families. From Yoga Kids DVDs to eco-friendly nappies and baby slings to wooden musical toys, there’s a wealth of products for your children. …
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PVC recyclers Shredtec are offering builders and window firms up to £70 per tonne for old PVC windowframes, and saving them approximately £42 per tonne in landfill fees. Here’s the lowdown from letsrecycle.com The news came as the Recovinyl scheme said the “first generation” of PVC windows is now reaching the end of its life. …
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Donna Barnett is keeping a blog to document her search for clean air. In Donna’s blog, called aptly, Chasing Clean Air, she talks about her experiences of starting over mid-life, her struggle to breath in Los Angeles, and provides links to sites on air and lung health, and interviews with clean-air experts. Join Donna’s adventure …
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An Albuquerque, New-Mexico based, non-profit company called Holistic Management International (HMI) is recommending that farmers and ranchers increase the organic content of their lands to help fight global warming. And how do they do this? They employ animal grazing techniques developed 25 years ago by HMI. The results speak for themselves. Here are photographs of …
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Being an avid composter, this article by Marion Owen really appealed to me. From now on I will be composting wool socks, old leather gardening gloves, pencil shavings, toenail clippings, wooden toothpicks, stale bread, old pasta, dead bees and flies, and wee from my toddler’s potty. For the full list of 163 things, read Marion’s …
Climate change is inevitable and we have to find ways to adapt to living in a warmer world. Frances Cairncross addressed the BA annual festival with this message. She believes that at this stage even maximum deployment of the most eco-friendly technology can’t stop global warming, and that attempts to reduce emissions through the Kyoto …
Michael Richard, treehugger.com editor, tells the world which are the greatest, greenest inventions ever. From The Independent: THE ECO KETTLE It is estimated that, on average, we boil twice the volume of water needed every time we use our kettles. With a 3kW kettle that’s the same as wasting the energy of around 50 light …
From The Independent: It is not just the state of California that is bypassing the authority of the US government to take action on global warming. The mayors of more than 300 cities across the country have signed a Climate Protection Agreement in which they have pledged to meet the emissions-cutting timetable laid down by …
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