These guys are the very latest green directory listing at Eco Street, and an environmentally-minded camping enthusiasts dream. Huttopia (a eco-friendly cross between huts and utopia) is a French eco-tourism company with two beautiful campsites, one in Rille and one… Read More »Rediscovering the camping spirit with Huttopia
Amazon.com are offering the Sunforce 12Volt 400Watt wind generator for US$799.99 with free shipping. Apparently it requires no maintenance and is easy to install with just two moving parts. It is labelled as ideal for cottages, charging 12volt batteries, remote… Read More »Wind turbine for sale on Amazon.com
During Organic Fortnight (2-17 September 2006) Sainsburys are giving away an environmentally friendly jute bag when you buy 5 items from their SO organic fresh fruit, vegetable and salad range. It is the first jute product to achieve Soil Association… Read More »Free jute shopping bag from Sainsburys
The BBC’s Good Food magazine has had a makeover with improvements to their in-season and local food coverage. For a special, free, sneak digital preview of the October issue before it goes on sale, click here. The issue includes an… Read More »New look Good Food
Wondering where all the green homes are? Now there’s a directory to help you find them. Vivavi’s new Modern Green Living Home Directory promises to help users “design, build, remodel, furnish or find a green home.” The directory features green… Read More »The Smarter Home
You can expect the amount of “unaddressed” junk mail coming through your letter-box to increase dramatically with an agreement expected this week to scrap the Royal Mail’s current three-items-a-week limit. These are the mailings addressed to “the occupier” that the… Read More »Oh no! Not more junk mail
There was a time when flowers and plants were used to colour our fabrics, paints and make-up, before the time of man-made chemicals. Now it seems, with concerns about the environment, our reliance on oil, and the effect that chemicals are having on our health, it may be time to go back to using these colour-producing plants. In the southern French town of Lauris, in Europe’s only conservatory garden of such plants, Garance association botanists are working away at reviving this ancient art.
South Africa is being urged by the World Bank to follow Germany’s example of making the next World Cup as green as possible, with the promise of a US$11million grant for transport and waste management. The Global Environment Facility, a… Read More »South Africa will be given US$11million to make 2010 World Cup “green”
The Association for Environment-Conscious Building has put forward its new CarbonLite programme in the hopes that it will be adopted by architects and builders as best practice, or perhaps the government would consider including it within building regulations. As it… Read More »CarbonLite sets the standard for carbon literacy in building