Introducing the new Eco Street competition, in association with Natural Nursery. Enter here for a chance to win vouchers to the value of £25 to spend at Natural Nursery. They are a family run business with a range of over 500 organic, natural, sustainable and eco-friendly products for you, your family and your home. From …
Kirklees Council have announced plans to install two wind turbines on Civic Centre III in the centre of Huddersfield. The plans are part of an effort to cut rising fuel costs for the council, and to contribute towards tackling global warming. The building is already using solar energy collectors to heat its water. “This is …
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I was so pleased to read this piece in the Daily Record, that I’m quoting it, in its entirety for your reading pleasure. It’s simple, straightforward and to the point. AROUND 20 per cent of the world’s energy comes from renewable resources. In Europe, this clean energy accounts for six per cent with a target …
Since last weekend, 16th July 2006 to be precise, it is illegal to dump tyres (even shredded ones) into landfill in the UK and Europe. All tyres removed from cars must now be recycled, recovered or re-used with options including re-treading, use as alternative fuel, reprocessing into chip and crumb for use in rubberised playing …
The National Household Hazardous Waste Forum has launched a campaign to help local authorities implement their campaigns for safe use, storage and disposal of garden chemicals. At this time of year, garden chemicals can make up over 50% of chemicals returned to household waste recycling centres. There has also been a spate of panic induced …
There’s up to 35% off at By Nature’s Summer Sale. It’s worth stopping by to see if anything grabs you from their wide range of womanswear, menswear, childrens and babies clothes, bedding, towels, eco deco collection, toiletries and stationery. How do you fancy being an eco-superhero? I am woman… ecowoman! Take that litter louts…
Its clear that the business sector has a major role to play in helping to protect the environment, and governments worldwide are encouraging businesses to do their bit to achieve goals on sustainable consumption and production, and corporate responsibility. So while Christmas is often seen as a time of excess and commercial gain, one company …
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The Happy Planet Index is a new global measure of progress, calculating the environmental cost with which countries deliver lives of different length and happiness, revealing for the first time that happiness doesn’t have to cost the Earth. Launched today by nef (the new economics foundation), the Happy Planet Index is the first of its …
Photographer Susannah Sayler and a team of researchers, writers and designers have set about collecting images of global warming and are working to make them visible to the widest possible audience with The Canary Project. For the month of July, images from The Canary Project will be displayed on the sides of buses in Denver …