Forget Tupperware parties, stay-at-home-mothers are getting involved in selling a product that saves fuel and lowers vehicle emissions as a new home-based business. Tania-Maria Xavier is a stay-at-home-mom and one of the area managers at EcoEnergizer™‘s business distributorship team in the US. She is offering a new business opportunity to other parents.
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Today is the last day to vote for the Green Park (Reading, UK) Wind Turbine in the BBC’s Unsung Landmarks poll. Don’t miss out! From grownupgreen: The BBC has drawn up a shortlist of the UK’s greatest unsung landmarks from… Read More »Wind Turbine shortlisted as “unsung landmark”.
The 1,000,000th compost bin is being delivered in the UK this week, and to celebrate Recycle Now’s Compost at Home team and Waste Aware Scotland brought a bit of glitz and glamour to home composting in Trafalgar Square yesterday with… Read More »Big Brother’s Lea celebrates composting
It wasn’t good news for the environment when the only reprocessing plant dedicated to the recycling of Tetra Pak cartons in the UK was closed down this summer. But things are looking up as Tetra Pak moves into talks with a number of UK paper mills in an attempt to to reach a 10% recycling rate by 2008 in the UK. Across the globe, the goal for Tetra Pak is to reach a 25% recycling rate. Read More »Tetra Pak talks about recycling
Leading scientists have come together to draw up a list of 100 leading questions facing the UK’s environmental future. The Guardian whittles these down to just eleven to cover the key issues for us.
How long does the seabed take to recover from dredging, wind farm construction and oil and gas extraction?
How does the ecological impact of UK farming compare internationally?
What are the ecological impacts of airports?
Today is the last day to enter the “Name that Television Show” contest! Help NYC based Green Ground Zero rename their environmentally focused talk show, Built Green TV, and you could win a Voltaic solar backpack from 3r living! Send… Read More »Last Chance to “Name that Television Show”
There are a number of options available to you if you decide that you want to live in a more eco-friendly home. You could start from scratch and build your own eco-home, you could retrofit your current home to make it more sustainable, or you could go out there and buy an off-the-peg eco-home. This is the first of a series of posts looking at these options, and starting with buying a ready-built eco-home in the UK.
Barbara Haddrill, who works for the Centre for Alternative Energy in Wales, will be travelling to Australia to be a bridesmaid at her best friend’s wedding. But instead of flying and damaging the environment, Barbara will be travelling to Australia… Read More »The green bridesmaid
WiFi-NY, an enterprising private member supported Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP), wants to make their wireless service available free to use in in New York City’s parks and green spaces. They have launched a project called GREENlined for WiFi!* to… Read More »Support free eco-WiFi in New York City’s green spaces