The original VW Westfalia was a hippy favourite. This remake by Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier is destined to become a favourite with a new culture who value green energy and the pleasure of being self-sufficient. This new culture embraces technology and its ability to help us to understand nature and its power. The award winning …
This Manchester billboard may get a few potential travellers thinking. Perhaps they’ll take the bus.
Are you planning to travel from the UK to Australia but feel bad about the 1.9 tonnes of CO2 that your flight is going to be spewing out? Why not take the scenic route and go by bus? From London to Sydney will take you 12 weeks and cost you £3750 with OzBus. It’s all …
The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards are the biggest responsible travel awards in the world, and this year attracted over 1700 nominations. So well done to the New Forest, a wonderful holiday destination in the UK, for being the overall winners of these awards. Click here to see who won the other categories including Best …
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One of the stops on our recent family summer trip was Keveral Farm. It’s situated 5 miles east of the town of Looe in Cornwall, England, and just a 15 minute walk from the seaside village of Seaton. We stayed in one of Matt’s tipi’s, nestled in the woodland on the farm. From the tipi, …
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If you’d like to get away from this summer, don’t want to fly and balloon your carbon footprint, but can’t think of what to do or where to go, here are a few suggestions for some eco-friendly summer activism/learning/fun. The Camp for Climate Action 14-21 August 2007: 8 days of low-impact living, 200 free workshops …
We’re mopping up the news stories that haven’t had their own featured blog posts at EcoStreet this week. And what a busy week it’s been too. There’s no longer any doubt about climate change, Gordon Brown’s government is threatening our greenbelt, and we’ve heard about how US news network Fox has been spreading misinformation about …
I’ve been hit by the Facebook social networking bug, and am very impressed with the new Carpool application that you can bolt-on to your Facebook profile. It’s basically carpooling, but within your network, so probably safer than using other carpooling sites. The application works in Canada, the US and the UK. via Treehugger
I’m planning my family’s summer holiday. We want to stay in the UK to avoid flying, and will probably drive in our reasonably fuel-efficient Citroen Picasso diesel to make getting around easy, and we’d like to camp partly to keep costs down, and partly for the adventure of it. Here is our short-list of 5 …
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