Tag: Bristol

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  City's Local Currency Is Accepted for Paying Taxes

  Local currencies are nothing new, but one city is allowing its businesses to pay their taxes with local money.

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  The Occupy Movement Must Think Beyond Physical Occupation

  Non-violent direct action is an important part of our democratic heritage. But occupation is a tactic, not an end goal.

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  Could Annoying Your Little Brother Be a Catalyst for Solar?

  Not long ago, my parents installed a sizable solar array on their home in England. Now my brother has just emailed with photos of his own installation. What's going on? Besides providing more evidence that solar feed-in

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  Want Half Your Employees to Cycle? Build a Bike Shed Like This One

  We know that bike commuting saves money, and that cycling to work combats obesity too. So it's no surprise when we hear that bike commuting is on the rise in many cities. One company is stepping out way ahead

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  Can a Whole City Go Zero Waste?

  We've already seen how pay-as-you-throw trash metering can cut landfill waste in half, and we've witnessed whole cities make composting mandatory. So there's little doubt that much, much

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  Monbiot: Biofuels for Electricity is "Eco Vandalism"

  Image credit: pawpaw67, used under Creative Commons license. Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green(er) practices, but that's unlikely to appease George Monbiot. He has long been a critic of biofuels for vehicles, but he is absolutely

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  Dramatic Projections Bring Climate Change Impacts Home

  Stunning Art Project Projects Impacts of Climate Change TreeHugger was founded on the idea that art and design can help solve the ecological crisis we are facing - most recently evidenced by our round up of environmental artists shaking up the art

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  The Office: Flexible, Green Office Space for All

  Life can be hard for start-up companies, particularly in the current economic climate. Often the need to keep costs down means that decent office space becomes unaffordable. It can be even harder for a small company to implement a green office policy if

• Triodos Bank Annual Meeting Tackles Food Security

  Whenever we've discussed Triodos Bank, the European sustainability-oriented savings bank with branches in the UK, Spain, The Netherlands and Belgium, we've always been impressed at the number of customers who attend

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  Ecotricity's 'Global Cooling Machines': Stunning Video

  We like Ecotricity, the UK-based green energy company that is busy planning and erecting urban wind turbines across the country. We’ve written about their partnership with Popeye, we’ve brought news of their collaborations with Lotus and Ben and

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  Best Renewables Project in the West - "Where's the Competition?" Ask Winners...

  The UK-based renewable energy company Ecotricity recently won an award from the renewable energy agency for South West England for its development of three giant wind turbines at the industrial Avonmouth Docks site on the outskirts of Bristol (which we

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  Transition City Bristol's Big Event: Program Now Finalized

  Just a reminder to our UK-based readers that Transition City Bristol's Big Event, which we posted on last week, is coming up on Sunday. Billed by Rob Hopkins, originator of the Transition Towns concept, as "Possibly the biggest Peak Oil/Climate

• Transition City Bristol's Big Event: "Unleashing the Collective Genius of the Community"

  Hailed by Rob Hopkins as "possibly the biggest peak oil/climate change/Transition event to take place in the UK", Bristol's Big Event looks set to be a huge collective exploration of the future for this city of 400,000 residents as fossil fuels

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  Transition City Bristol to Plant a Virtual Orchard

  We’ve reported on Transition City Bristol before, one of the first city-wide Transition Town initiatives [Disclaimer: This author has good friends involved in the project, but we’d be writing about it even if we didn’t]. It looks like things are

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  UK Dock Turns to Wind Power - Motorists Look On

  We mentioned Ecotricity’s new 'Merchant Wind Power' project at Avonmouth Docks near Bristol, UK earlier this year, but we couldn’t help posting a picture of the now completed initiative. Located in the ultra-industrialized port, surrounded by storage

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  Battery Electric Vehicles of Bristol

  Bristol, UK, just keeps on popping up on Treehugger. Most recently we talked about the potentially ground breaking Transition City Bristol initiative, a community lead process to plan for peak oil, but as we noted then, it doesn’t end there. It’s also

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  Transition City Bristol: Tackling Climate change and Peak Oil with Community Planning

  The Transition Town concept, a community focused response to climate change and peak oil, which was pioneered by Rob Hopkins, and which we reported on here and here, is spreading even further. For the first time, it is being tried on a city-wide scale,

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  Most Huggable: Football Mangroves in Florida, Bristol's Renewable Street Lights, Frank Capra's "Truth"

  To carbon neutralize the Super Bowl, the NFL plants mangroves in Florida