This is fascinating. A statistical study of satellite images has shown that the more plants you have, the more rain you have. Another good reason to preserve green spaces in dry regions. I won’t pretend to understand the science, so if you want to know more, read it here. Via: Nature.com
A little late for the “back to school” uniform buying frenzy, but sites to note for future use none the less. Clean Slate are a supplier of fairtrade and organic school uniform, working with schools and encouraging co-operative buying to reduce costs. Well worth a look, and why not let your children’s school know about …
Chris Carey’s Collections has officially opened a new £2million textile recycling facility in Beckenham effectively doubling its capacity for recycling, and enabling the company to secure contracts to recycle all staff uniforms for Homebase and Argos. The new facility will receive clothes from over 2000 SMEs, community groups, local authorities and charity shops, hand sort …
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Hello there and welcome to the 46th weekly Carnival of the Green. We’re proud to be hosting the carnival for the second time and would like to thank City Hippy and Triple Pundit (founders of aforementioned carnival) for the great honour. Thanks also to Karavans for a tip-top carnival last week. Enough with the niceties …
Today marks the start of the 5th annual British Food Fortnight, a celebration of the diversity of locally produced food. Now, more than ever, we need to be looking at eating food that has been produced on our own shores, to prevent unnecessary foodmiles, bolster the local economy and protect our native food producers for …
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The 3 R’s of the green movement – reduce, reuse, recycle – are moving over for S4 – substance, sexiness, style and sustainability. Summer Rayne Oakes and SRO have recently launched S4, an industry newsletter reporting on fashion sustainability trends. It’s packed full of fantastic images and articles – more of a fashion magazine that …
Seattle, WA boasts the first organic/fair-trade chocolate factory in the United States. Theo Chocolate took over an old brewery in the Fremont district of the Pacific Northwest city last January. It is a small operation compared to its mega (non-organic) counterparts, which produce the confection for companies like Hershey’s and Nestle. Theo founder, Joel Whinney …
Zeropointzero.org have launched a new activist website for people around the world who share the desire to take actions, no matter how small, towards change for good. The first action you are invited to take part in is to send a free Divine Fair Trade mini chocolate to a friend. It’s free to send, you’re …
Leading futurologist James Martin looks to our immediate future in his new book ‘The Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital Blueprint for ensuring our Future’. If the 20th Century was all about ‘progress’, the 21st Century must be about transition, about reconsidering whether all progress, at the same rate, and in the same direction, …