The TREE-ATHLON 2006 is a three-part event raising funds for tree planting in the bleaker parts of the UK’s cities and elsewhere in the world where trees are needed. To take part you need to run 5kms, tell the world what your urban tree wish is, and plant your own tree from seed. Registration is …
If wanting to read lots of celebrity gossip leaves you feeling a little guilty, you can ease your conscience and become greener while you’re indulging in a bit of celebrity eco-news with ecorazzi, a new blog dedicated to “green gossip”.
Forget Tupperware parties, stay-at-home-mothers are getting involved in selling a product that saves fuel and lowers vehicle emissions as a new home-based business. Tania-Maria Xavier is a stay-at-home-mom and one of the area managers at EcoEnergizer™‘s business distributorship team in the US. She is offering a new business opportunity to other parents.
Today is the last day to vote for the Green Park (Reading, UK) Wind Turbine in the BBC’s Unsung Landmarks poll. Don’t miss out! From grownupgreen: The BBC has drawn up a shortlist of the UK’s greatest unsung landmarks from over a thousand suggested by the public. Amongst the churches, bridges and remnants of our …
The 1,000,000th compost bin is being delivered in the UK this week, and to celebrate Recycle Now’s Compost at Home team and Waste Aware Scotland brought a bit of glitz and glamour to home composting in Trafalgar Square yesterday with a bit of help from Lea of Big Brother fame. 30 home composters were given …
It wasn’t good news for the environment when the only reprocessing plant dedicated to the recycling of Tetra Pak cartons in the UK was closed down this summer. But things are looking up as Tetra Pak moves into talks with a number of UK paper mills in an attempt to to reach a 10% recycling …
Leading scientists have come together to draw up a list of 100 leading questions facing the UK’s environmental future. The Guardian whittles these down to just eleven to cover the key issues for us. How long does the seabed take to recover from dredging, wind farm construction and oil and gas extraction? How does the …
Today is the last day to enter the “Name that Television Show” contest! Help NYC based Green Ground Zero rename their environmentally focused talk show, Built Green TV, and you could win a Voltaic solar backpack from 3r living! Send in your suggestion for a new TV show name to info@greengroundzero.org. Find all the contest …
There are a number of options available to you if you decide that you want to live in a more eco-friendly home. You could start from scratch and build your own eco-home, you could retrofit your current home to make it more sustainable, or you could go out there and buy an off-the-peg eco-home. This …