Tracy Stokes is a mixed media artist living & working on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town. She likes to paint on re-purposed surfaces and recycle creatively in all aspects of her life.
Since last weekend, 16th July 2006 to be precise, it is illegal to dump tyres (even shredded ones) into landfill in the UK and Europe. All tyres removed from cars must now be recycled, recovered or re-used with options including… Read More »Landfill ban on tyres now effective
The National Household Hazardous Waste Forum has launched a campaign to help local authorities implement their campaigns for safe use, storage and disposal of garden chemicals. At this time of year, garden chemicals can make up over 50% of chemicals… Read More »Making sense of garden chemical disposal
There’s up to 35% off at By Nature’s Summer Sale. It’s worth stopping by to see if anything grabs you from their wide range of womanswear, menswear, childrens and babies clothes, bedding, towels, eco deco collection, toiletries and stationery. How… Read More »Summer Sale at By Nature
Its clear that the business sector has a major role to play in helping to protect the environment, and governments worldwide are encouraging businesses to do their bit to achieve goals on sustainable consumption and production, and corporate responsibility.
So while Christmas is often seen as a time of excess and commercial gain, one company is making it possible for others to curb spending, help the environment and still keep the spirit of Christmas alive. Wishawish.com is having Christmas in July in 2006 and offering others the opportunity for further savings on their already economical corporate ecards for businesses that buy their ecards before the end of August.
Read More »Christmas in July: another way for businesses to stop harming the environment
The Happy Planet Index is a new global measure of progress, calculating the environmental cost with which countries deliver lives of different length and happiness, revealing for the first time that happiness doesn’t have to cost the Earth.
Launched today by nef (the new economics foundation), the Happy Planet Index is the first of its kind, and its results are surprising, or even shocking. The ranking puts the UK in 108th place and the USA in an even worse 150th out of 178 countries.
Photographer Susannah Sayler and a team of researchers, writers and designers have set about collecting images of global warming and are working to make them visible to the widest possible audience with The Canary Project. For the month of July,… Read More »The canary in the coal mine
Fashion designer and campaigner Katherine Hamnett is guest editor of the Big Issue‘s Alternative Energy review, available on the streets of London from Big Issue vendors from this week. “I have been campaigning on many environmental issues for the last… Read More »Big Issue: Alternative Energy review
Back in April we were wondering, along with the folks at Better Thinking (“a unique team of thinkers and doers”), what makes the perfect t-shirt? Well, they’ve been working really hard to answer that question, and now have a detailed… Read More »The perfect t-shirt dye report
The Dutch Advisory for the Landscape asked designers to come up with a new generation wind-turbine. One Architecture, Ton Matton and NL architect (collectively known at 100MW Mountain) did just that with this bouquet of “flower power” windmills. Via: Ecofriend