Green Energy Grants for UK Schools

During this past weekend The Guardian has reported that UK schools are now able to draw on a number of grant resources to help them become more eco-friendly and to save money and the environment by generating their own energy. You can read the full report here. A number of schools up and down the …

Please Sir, May I Have Some More (Healthy Food)

It is expected that the government will be putting restrictions on junk food available in schools from September 2006, something that the Caroline Walker Trust considers to be 20 years too late. The trust reports that since 1992 obesity in school aged children has doubled, something that is easy to believe as a mother standing …

Red Ken Pushes the Green

With Londoners still bagging and binning enough rubbish to fill an olympic sized swimming pool every hour, it seems Mayor Ken Livingstone still has a long way to go, getting citizens to use his recycling facilities. Services throughout the capital are improving all the time, with better doorstep collections and additional processing available at many …

European Mobility Week

Across Europe towns and cities will be celebrating sustainable transport during European Mobility Week 16th – 22nd September 2005. This also incorporates International Car Free Day on the 22nd September. The theme for 2005 is ‘clever commuting’ and aims to highlight that reducing car commuting in favour of cycling, walking and using public transport does …