No need to buy wrapping paper. Just wrap up your presents with what you have lying around at home, and make the gift into an adventure. Surprise balls can be made with scraps of fabric, yarn, lace, bias-binding, rick-rack, whatever you can find in your sewing box, and they’re ideal for wrapping a number of …
While she was working as a scientist advising on energy efficiency, Joan Pick radically changed her life. She hasn’t flown since 1971, and hasn’t been in a motor vehicle since 1973 (except for a trip in an ambulance and one in a funeral car). Joan runs and walks everywhere from her home in Croydon, she …
Grandmother and former nurse Linda Sones sells organic cotton baby and children’s clothing and accessories, and natural, organic baby toiletries online at SonesUK. Her suppliers are all committed to various environmental and Fairtrade initiatives. The one constant in the news these days is the so called ‘credit crunch’ and its effects. A recent report in …
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You could be. The Low Impact Living Initiative are running courses during the month of October on composting, building solar water heaters, green woodwork, low-impact smallholdings, wood burner construction and advanced recycling. The courses are run in the South East, the North and in Wales, so there should be a venue that suits you. Or …
Following trials of separate collections of food waste from over 94,000 UK households and the positive reception that the trial received, some local authorities are rolling out these collections permanently. In a bid to divert food waste from landfill, trials were run by 19 local authorities with a total of 78% of residents involved in …
If you want to add green meaning to online searches, head on over to WebEcoist, the new and extremely groovy green sister site to WebUrbanist, to be spoilt for choice. They’ve compiled a list of the greenest search engines, 27 of them in total, and explain what exactly makes each individual search engine green. If …
It’s hard to tell when the ‘zero waste’ bug hit the UK, but the earliest blog that I can find on the subject is the Cambridge Zero Waste Challenge. Some Cambridge city councillors volunteered to put themselves and their families through the rigorous exercise of seeing just how little they could put into their black …
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In their commitment to the planet, and each other, Stefanie Schmiedel and Robert Gray took the Tube to their wedding. They travelled with their bridal party from Dollis Hill to Baker Street Tube station by London Underground, and then walked the rest of the way to the Marylebone register office. Bride Stefanie wore a reusable …
Bored of the same old tourist routes around London? Insider London, the brainchild of Ecostreet’s own Cate Trotter, has been set up to show you all the pioneering, modern goings-on in the city. The Cutting-Edge Green Tour is the first of the business’s range of innovative tours, taking in sexy products, gorgeous shops, futuristic architecture …
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