This is a guest post by Elaine Dutton of Pure Design, a social enterprise and online eco-design gallery. Her mission is to promote sustainable design and designers in the UK by providing a platform from which designers can show and sell their work, and encourages exchange of eco-design knowledge between established and emerging eco-design talent. …
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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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What started out as the Sierra Club‘s solution to giving useful and entertaining answers to their magazine reader’s questions ended up being published earlier as a guidebook on how to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Hey Mr. Green column writer Bob Schildgen discovered after a couple of years of writing his column in the Sierra …
Anna Shepard is no granola-munching hippie. She’s the hip and stylish green girl next door who writes the Eco-Worrier column for the Sunday Times, the Eco-Worrier blog, and she’s just published a new book, How Green Are My Wellies? Anna comes from a family of frugal women, and so took to eco-living like a duck …
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 …
In the run-up to last Christmas I wrote a big, green eco-xmas gift list that included a little toy car called the H-racer as a gift idea for boys of all ages. At the time I called it “a futuristic toy car containing one of the most exciting and advanced technologies of the 21st century”, …