The Big Green Weekend

Hebden Bridge, home to artist and general green bod Jason Elliot as well as the Alternative Technology Centre, will now also be hosting The Big Green Weekend over the 24th, 25th and 26th of May 2008. The event is action packed and full of green goodness, a small sample of which includes The Big Green …

Join the recycling brigade

For our US readers, here’s how you can recycle, support eco-capitalism, and make a little cash on the side. TerraCycle are paying 2 cents per cookie wrapper or drinks pouch, so that they can continue to make really cool stuff out of rubbish. You collect the wrappers and pouches and Terracycle delivers free shipping collection …

Heathrow and the Carnival of Noise

Here’s a good cause to get involved in. On Saturday 31st May, a Carnival of Noise will be making it’s way from Hatton Cross Tube Station (Piccadilly Line, 12pm) to Sipson, the village set to be wiped out by the proposed Heathrow expansion. After the carnival, everyone will help to form a giant, and hopefully …

Think on your feet

Until the end of May 2008, TERRA PLANA, the people who make recycled and ethical shoes, will give you a £10 discount on a pair of their gorgeous shoes if you bring in an old pair of unwanted shoes, any brand, to their Covent Garden or London Bridge stores for recycling. 330 million pairs of …