Tag: England - Page 10
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Smart Eco-Youths in England Create Solar Blinds as Way to Help Power Homes, Businesses Everywhere
What if the blinds in hotels, homes and businesses around the world were able to collect solar energy during the day, turning it into a source of energy to power nightlights, security lights, and even the blinds themselves instead of just "hanging
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Solar Powered LEDs Light Up Highways
In England, they are testing out an new way to illuminate roads using solar power and LEDs. These active markers have an edge over passive reflectors because they store solar energy during the day, and then emit light at night to improve visibility
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Guerilla Gifts
We love Guerilla Gardeners and in our next life will be one...what could be more anarchic and creative than making miserable corners of a city come to life with flowers and water overnight. There is an active group working in London and one of their
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Play With Your Food
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra must be the only band in the world that buys its instruments fresh and organic before each performance. They must also be the only ones to use DIY instruments such as cucuphones in the wind section. For the uninitiated
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How Carbon Neutral are British Trains?
The spectacular launch of the carbon neutral Eurostar train prompted thoughts and questions about the fuelling of British trains. As if by magic the answer appeared the next day in a letter by the Chief Executive of Network Rail. He writes that by
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Damien Hirst Goes Solar
Damien Hirst, enfant terrible of the YBA (young british artists) trendy art scene and multi-millionaire, is going solar in a big way. He has just ordered the country's second largest solar panel system. To make the studios at his palatial country
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What Becomes a Legend Most?
It's the "Be the Change" conference which brings together world leaders in sustainability and social change to discuss ways to achieve an "environmentally sustainable and socially just world." One of the main sponsoring organisations is the World
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Earth: The Movie
Earth is a spectacular new documentary made by the BBC that follows the lives of three wild animals over a year. Filmed over a 5 year period, it tracks polar bears in the Arctic, elephants in the Kalahari and a humpback whale, through the trials and
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St.Pancras Protest
Not everyone was pleased about the opening of the new Eurostar train and the St. Pancras International Station. On the big day of the first Eurostar journey to Paris, 100 hardy members of the Camden Cycling Campaign were driving around in circles,
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Eurostar's First Carbon Neutral Trip
Yesterday was the big day: the first trip of the new, improved, carbon neutral Eurostar train to Paris, leaving from its brand new headquarters at St. Pancras International for Paris. It is now the world's first train operator to make all its trips
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UnTreeHugger: Sgt. Podge the Itinerant Cat
Twelve-year-old Sgt. Podge, a Norwegian Forest Cat, vanishes from his owner's home each night. The next morning, he can be found in exactly the same place: a pavement about one and a half miles (2.4km) away.
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Green Media Winners
The winners at the British Environment and Media Awards included some familiar faces and some interesting newcomers. The Guardian newspaper was named paper of the year, and it does deserve the award; their coverage of the environment has been
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Ceramic or Paper Cups?
Ceramic or paper cups? Deciding which is the greenest and most environmentally friendly should be a no-brainer. Intuititively we go for the ceramic. But an article by the that intrepid green goddess Lucy Siegle, causes one to pause. She quotes an
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Houses of Parliament Go Green
The old girl has some life in her yet. The Palace of Westminster, built in 1835-65 is going to become a green building. Currently the building uses enough electricity to power 6,500 households but (secret) plans to slash its carbon footprint by
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Nu Magazine: Fashion Laid Bare
A new ethical fashion magazine has appeared on the London scene. It is good timing now that the fashion world is beginning to recognise the impact of its production on the world and that ethical fashion can be stylish. Started by two young social
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Walk Don't Run
We know that that we are supposed to walk more, and we know that we should get off the subway a stop earlier than our destination and walk the last bit etc. etc. But it is so hard to get started, and so easy to jump on a bus (or into the car) instead
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World is Ready to Make Sacrifices
It's true, according to a recent BBC poll of 22,000 people in 21 countries, the world is ready to make some sacrifices to save the planet. And some are more willing than others: 60-68% of people interviewed in Spain, Mexico, Italy, China and Canada
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The People's Millions: Who Do You Vote For?
The People's Millions, a lottery fund, has £50M ($101M US) to award to the best proposal for an environmental project in the UK. And the winner will be decided by the television-watching public who will vote after seeing each group on the short-list
