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, …
Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be moving its freight from road to rail, as truck company Eddie Stobart moves from the roads to the rails. Cumbrian haulage company Eddie Stobart is undergoing a huge makeover as all of its red and green trucks are removed from Scottish roads and its goods transferred …
Earlier this week it was revealed that the average temperature in central England has increased by one degree since 1960. The Met Office announced their findings at the Climate Clinic in Brighton and confirmed that the temperature rise can only have been caused by anthropogenic (human-induced) factors. “This is a remarkable anthropogenic signal. Sharp spikes …
Wal-Mart subsidiary Asda has stopped sending non-hazardous waste to landfill from its distribution centre in Dartford, Kent. The centre is recycling and composting all of it’s material, “down to the chicken fat in the canteen” after signing up to a zero waste to landfill target by 2010. Asda expects to reach its target within two …
Instant Karma Films are a newly launched eco-friendly spot company about to embark on their first project and the first carbon neutral television ad ever produced. The ad will be for Maybelline New York and Gotham Inc., shot in Shanghai and featuring actress Zhang Ziyi best known for her work in Memoirs of a Geisha …
The National Consumer Council has published a consumer-focused environmental rating for British supermarkets. In it the council puts the top eight supermarkets to the test on four green indicators: seasonal food, organics, sustainable sourcing and cutting waste. Improvements have been seen in some areas, but all of the supermarkets are still falling short of expectations. …
Why renewable energy? Renewable energy makes sense. Why continue to use fuel that cannot be renewed when it is possible to either replace this fuel or supplement it with energies that are renewed again and again and again? People generally implement renewable energy for one of three reasons: they want to reduce their increasing fuel …
Village Underground is new charity supporting small new businesses, and is working with Tube Lines to recycle old London Underground carriages that have been in disuse for years. In August six old Jubilee line carriages were removed from sidings in Uxbridge and taken to Essex to be cleaned up and readied to be installed as …