This Centre has become the first major UK construction according to Positive News to reverse the effects of greenhouse gases. The walls are built of compressed lime blocks infilled with Hemcrete, made of hemp and lime, in place of conventional building materials. The warehouse has 150 tonnes of ca... more
Welsh Councils to invest £26m in AD 20/02/2009 Welsh Environment Minister Jane Davidson has announced a major new investment in Anaerobic Digestion. Through the Assembly’s Strategic Capital Investment Fund, councils will have £20 million on offer for capital investment in new AD facilit... more
Around 1500 bike stations are being introduced into Paris this July housing specially designed vandal-proof bikes - roughly 20,000 of them by the end of the year - for hire by the hour. Once a member the bikes can be borrowed from any station and returned to any other in the city and rental is free... more
This began as an idea of the Parish Council back in 2000 and was taken on by residents who bought shares as the idea became an Industrial and Provident Society. Due to open late summer 2003, the shop will stock 20% local produce, give access to IT training and will be run by local volunteers. It is ... more
A new energy efficiency programme has been switched on at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and is expected to save £688,000 a year, reducing carbon emissions and boosting resources for patient care. The combined heat and power (CHP) scheme enables the hospital to generate its own electricity in ... more
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Forestfreecycle The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely non-profit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. Each local group is moderated by local volunte... more
GAP's Environmental Champions Programme works with businesses to reduce their impact on the environment by recruiting champions across an organisation who come up with ways to help persuade colleagues to save energy, recycle more and use fewer resources. They audit environmental impacts across the b... more
Only a tiny percentage of UK electricity is generated by renewables. Via the Renewables Obligation the government has ordered suppliers to get a proportion of their energy from clean, green sources. The danger is you buy green and someone else just gets dirty as power suppliers shift their obligat... more
While not entirely carbon neutral, given a lack of other available options, Penwith Housing Association decided to upgrade several bungalows in Cornwall with ground source heat pumps. Using funding from the Clear Skies Programme and the District Council, the bungalows now have their hot water and s... more
Wormholt School, West London has become the first in the country to be heated by a ground source heat pump concealed beneath the school playground. The system provides the school with heating and hot water. A water-glycol mixture is pumped through 250 metres of pipework in ground hoops about a met... more
Holsworthy Biogas takes in agricultural, abbatoir and food waste as raw materials to turn into methane - enough to power 2000 homes in this Devon area. The plant uses half cattle slurry and half food processing waste which is reduced to a particle size less than 12mm then cooked for over an hour at... more
By 2025 London could be the cycling capital of Europe - around £4 million will see cycling become a fully funded part of the public transport network with plans including a new free bike lending scheme (offering 6,000 bikes every 300m) and 12 cycle highways.... more
London's Climate Change Action Plan - Action Today to Protect Tomorrow sets out a ten year programme to stabilise the capital's emissions at 60% below 1990 levels by 2025. Top priority is to reduce reliance on the local grid and increase local, lower-carbon energy. Ken Liveingston said, "Lond... more
US: March 5, 2008 RIVERDALE, Calif., - Imagine a vat of liquid cow manure covering the area of five football fields and 33 feet deep. Meet California's most alternative new energy. On a dairy farm in the Golden State's agricultural heartland, utility PG&E Corp began on Tuesday producin... more
Pelton polymers is a small/medium sized family owned company based in Lydney. Over the last 25 years it has been built up to become the largest and most technologically advanced hydroscopic polymer reprocessing plan in Europe. In 2001 we were accredited with the international 'Environment Managemen... more
School Travel Plans assist the County Council in achieving one of its main Local Transport Plan targets, which is to encourage more sustainable transportation and to reduce the number of car trips. Currently about 37% of children in Gloucestershire travel to school by car. This is twice the number ... more
Sun pipes or solar tubes are effectively tubes that draw natural light from a small transparent dome on your roof down a reflective pipe to light those dark parts that need continual lighting.... more
The Dezac factory in Cinderford produces the Rio range of health, beauty and fitness products. It also produces TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) pain relief systems, a natural alternative to drugs. Before moving to their current premises DEZAC operated over several sites on the... more
Porritt praises £700,000 unique eco-group HQ Eco-campaigner Jonathan Porritt has praised a Gloucestershire eco-group for its pioneering approach to environmental products, which he said was based on 'actions, as well as sales'. Mr Porritt made the comments at the official opening of th... more
Woking Borough Council's "Energy Initiative" is an excellent example of decentralised energy in the UK. The Council has taken a lead by reducing its own energy consumption by 51% and its carbon dioxide emissions by 81% between 1990 and 2005, while producing 82% of its own electricity requ... more
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A small group of registered growers around the country are supplying Demeter certified seed to Stormy Hall Seeds, a thriving mail order business which stocks a growing range of mainly vegetable varieties. A large proportion of its seed stock is however imported and farm seeds are yet to be produced on any scale. Building on the excellent research and seed growing work so far, BDAA would like to: - establish a network of farmers and gardeners willing and able to supply the growing organic market with high quality biodynamic seed - support research into varieties and plant strains most suited to organic growing conditions and to the unique requirements of different localities - inaugurate an ongoing farm based plant-breeding programme, using well tried biodynamic techniques - promote wider public interest and community involvement in plant breeding and the growing and saving of seeds.