The original VW Westfalia was a hippy favourite. This remake by Canadian designer Alexandre Verdier is destined to become a favourite with a new culture who value green energy and the pleasure of being self-sufficient. This new culture embraces technology… Read More »Eco-camping in style
This Manchester billboard may get a few potential travellers thinking. Perhaps they’ll take the bus.
Are you planning to travel from the UK to Australia but feel bad about the 1.9 tonnes of CO2 that your flight is going to be spewing out? Why not take the scenic route and go by bus? From London… Read More »Going to Australia? Take the bus
The Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards are the biggest responsible travel awards in the world, and this year attracted over 1700 nominations. So well done to the New Forest, a wonderful holiday destination in the UK, for being the overall… Read More »The New Forest wins the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards 2007
One of the stops on our recent family summer trip was Keveral Farm. It’s situated 5 miles east of the town of Looe in Cornwall, England, and just a 15 minute walk from the seaside village of Seaton. We stayed… Read More »Keveral Farm – spending a few days in an organic farming community
If you’d like to get away from this summer, don’t want to fly and balloon your carbon footprint, but can’t think of what to do or where to go, here are a few suggestions for some eco-friendly summer activism/learning/fun. The… Read More »3 worthwhile things to do this summer
We’re mopping up the news stories that haven’t had their own featured blog posts at EcoStreet this week. And what a busy week it’s been too. There’s no longer any doubt about climate change, Gordon Brown’s government is threatening our… Read More »EcoStreet’s Eco-radar – 13th July 2007
I’ve been hit by the Facebook social networking bug, and am very impressed with the new Carpool application that you can bolt-on to your Facebook profile. It’s basically carpooling, but within your network, so probably safer than using other carpooling… Read More »Carpool application for Facebook
I’m planning my family’s summer holiday. We want to stay in the UK to avoid flying, and will probably drive in our reasonably fuel-efficient Citroen Picasso diesel to make getting around easy, and we’d like to camp partly to keep… Read More »5 eco-friendly UK camping holidays with children