Thousands of American homes and buildings will open their doors to the public today (7th Oct 2006) to give everyone the opportunity to experience solar power, solar heating, cooling, and hot-water, wind power, daylighting, and green building technologies. This is… Read More »US National Solar Tour starts today
Next time you pick up a pack of bacon in the supermarket, spare a moment to check where it comes from and make a conscious decision about what you are buying. Apart from the obvious advantages of buying local bacon… Read More »Bringing home the bacon
It’s fine and well banging on about making our homes more eco-friendly, but it can seem a daunting tast, especially when you don’t know where to start. Take an existing home, with average insulation, the usual bog-standard energy supply and… Read More »Greener houses
You’ve got a few more days to get down to the Future London interactive experience at the Science Museum. The experience, subtitled Footprints of a Generation, is a chance for Londoners to find out what is being done to move… Read More »Future London
A little late for the “back to school” uniform buying frenzy, but sites to note for future use none the less. Clean Slate are a supplier of fairtrade and organic school uniform, working with schools and encouraging co-operative buying to… Read More »School uniforms go green
Hello there and welcome to the 46th weekly Carnival of the Green. We’re proud to be hosting the carnival for the second time and would like to thank City Hippy and Triple Pundit (founders of aforementioned carnival) for the great… Read More »Carnival of the Green #46
The 3 R’s of the green movement – reduce, reuse, recycle – are moving over for S4 – substance, sexiness, style and sustainability. Summer Rayne Oakes and SRO have recently launched S4, an industry newsletter reporting on fashion sustainability trends.… Read More »S4 – Sustainability Trends in Fashion
Seattle, WA boasts the first organic/fair-trade chocolate factory in the United States.
Theo Chocolate took over an old brewery in the Fremont district of the Pacific Northwest city last January. It is a small operation compared to its mega (non-organic) counterparts, which produce the confection for companies like Hershey’s and Nestle.
Theo founder, Joel Whinney not only wants to pursue the fine art of chocolate, but also wants to improve the lives of cocoa growers around the world.
Being an avid composter, this article by Marion Owen really appealed to me. From now on I will be composting wool socks, old leather gardening gloves, pencil shavings, toenail clippings, wooden toothpicks, stale bread, old pasta, dead bees and flies,… Read More »163 things you can compost