What on earth are food miles? They are the distance that your food travels from the grower to your plate, including travel to and from processor and retailer. Why should I want to reduce them? Because transporting your food long distances involves lorries and aeroplanes. And lorries and aeroplanes use lots of fuel and emit …
You’ve been faithfully composting for well over a year, your compost bin is pretty full and when you pull the little hatch at the bottom of the bin open you can see lovely crumbly black stuff inside? Sounds like you’re ready to start using your compost. Compost can greatly improve the state of your soil …
Going green is all the rage, but not everyone is taking the plunge. Why not? For starters, you may think that it takes a lot of effort or a lot of money to go green. This just isn’t the case. Here are 12 very easy, cheap and/or money saving ways that you can help save …
The Big Green Switch says it’s easy to be green. You don’t have to sell your car or never leave this island to be considered green. You can make small changes that will make a big difference, and the Big Green Switch website shows you how. For starters, they encourage the small action of taking …
Meet The Greens is a website looking at living green from a kid’s perspective. Their latest offering is a cool video about green fashion.
Ethical Jobs is celebrating their 1st birthday and to celebrate, they are giving away unlimited vacancy ads until midnight on Sunday 13th May 2007. There is no catch, you just need to choose the Single Vacancy option when placing the ad. The Ethical Jobs website has been recently updated to include a fully interactive database …
Spring has certainly sprung in the northern hemisphere. It’s been a scorching April here in the UK, and very, very dry. We don’t have a hosepipe ban in place yet, but I’ll be very surprised if it doesn’t happen soon. Climate change is already having quite an effect on our gardens, and it’s early days …
Are you driving a gas-guzzler? Want to buy a green car but can’t afford a hybrid? The good news is that you can improve the eco-credentials of your wheels by referring to What Green Car? before you buy. So why not replace that Chelsea Tractor with a Volvo V50, or your Yank Tank with a …
Reyka Vodka from Iceland has just hit American shelves and is the world’s first “green” vodka, being distilled using sustainable and clean energy from geothermal heat.