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Tracy Stokes is a mixed media artist living & working on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town. She likes to paint on re-purposed surfaces and recycle creatively in all aspects of her life.

Latest green league table for supermarkets

The National Consumer Council has published a consumer-focused environmental rating for British supermarkets. In it the council puts the top eight supermarkets to the test on four green indicators: seasonal food, organics, sustainable sourcing and cutting waste. Improvements have been seen in some areas, but all of the supermarkets are still falling short of expectations.

Waitrose came top of the “green” table, with Sainsbury’s being the highest ranking of the “big four”.

‘We all need to understand that food is the typical household’s number one contributor to climate change. By throwing away ten billion carrier bags each year and transporting carrots from Egypt and strawberries from New Zealand, we hit the environment hard. But shoppers are increasingly keen to do their bit. Now, we make it clear how supermarkets could make greener choices easier for everybody.’
NCC Chairman, Lord Whitty

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Recycling call for “first generation” PVC windows

pvcwindows.jpgPVC 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.

Shredtec will be offering the payment for post use PVC-U, typically found in window and door frames, pipes and conduit. The payments are part funded by Recovinyl.

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Fight global warming by increasing soil’s organic content

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 the same piece of land in Zimbabwe, the first taken in September 2004, the second in May 2006.

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Greatest green inventions

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 bulbs. And standard kettles are often highly inefficient – a stove-top kettle, for instance, requires energy to heat the handle and shell in addition to the water. But British designer Brian Hartley’s Eco Kettle solves these problems at a stroke. You fill it up, and then use the measuring button to release the exact amount of water you require – from a single cup to a full jug – into a separate chamber for boiling. It is also insulated to keep the water hot. The result is an energy saving of up to 30 per cent.

www.ecokettle.com

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