Christmas in July: another way for businesses to stop harming the environment

by Tracy StokesEcoTech, Sustainable LifestylePosted on One Comment

It’s 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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(Un)Happy Planet Index

by Tracy StokesSustainable LifestylePosted on Comments are Disabled

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 …

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The canary in the coal mine

by Tracy StokesClimate ChangePosted on Comments are Disabled

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 …

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Big Issue: Alternative Energy review

by Tracy StokesClimate Change, EcoEnergyPosted on Comments are Disabled

Fashion designer and campaigner Katherine Hamnett is guest editor of the Big Issue‘s Alternative Energy review, available on the streets of London from Big Issue vendors from this week. “I have been campaigning on many environmental issues for the last 20 years, including for a worldwide nuclear ban. Suddenly, the British Government wants to build …

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The perfect t-shirt dye report

by Tracy StokesEcoFashionPosted on Comments are Disabled

Back in April we were wondering, along with the folks at Better Thinking (“a unique team of thinkers and doers”), what makes the perfect t-shirt? Well, they’ve been working really hard to answer that question, and now have a detailed report out that simplifies and summarises everything they’ve learnt about different ways to colour fabric, …

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87% of British public opposed to new nuclear power stations

by EcoStreetEcoEnergy, Toxic WorldPosted on Comments are Disabled

From the Green Party press office: In advance of the government’s energy review due tomorrow, the Green Party today released the results of a national survey dramatically highlighting public opposition to a new generation of nuclear power stations, and revealing widespread criticism of the way in which the government conducted it’s review. Green Party Principal …

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Tuc tucs take to Brighton’s streets

by Tracy StokesResponsible TransportPosted on Comments are Disabled

Starting tomorrow and for the first time in the UK, tuc tucs will be on the streets of Brighton, making getting about the seaside town just a little bit greener and lots more fun. The fleet of 12 vehicles are virtually emission free because they are run on CNG (compressed natural gas), and the vehicle …

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