Green Lifestyle: 75/100 of 133
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Sustainable Warmth
Mark Anslow
1st January, 2008
Three years ago, winter was not a good time of year for residents at Hoathly Hill in West Sussex. A community founded in 1972 on the principles of Rudolf Steiner, many of Hoathly Hill’s residents enjoyed the sense of quiet self-sufficiency that living on a smallholding in Sussex’s High Weald gave them. more...
UK public failing to pay for pollution
News
4th December, 2007
The general public is failing to pay the true cost of the pollution it is causing, according green campaigners. more...
Six Home Energy Saving Tips
Laura Sevier
1st November, 2007
According to the Energy Saving Trust, the average UK household spends more than £870 per year on fuel and power, and produces around six tonnes of CO². £300 of this cost (and around two tonnes of CO²) could be saved by being more energy efficient. more...
Scrub for victory
Laura Sevier
24th October, 2007
Clean the most difficult places in a natural,eco-friendly way. Laura Sevier explains how more...
How to judge the success of a campaign
Tom Hodgkinson
24th October, 2007
The best way to judge the success of a campaign, says Tom Hodgkinson,is to stop yourself thinking in out-dated terms like ‘success’ and ‘failure’ more...
The origins of hydroelectricity
Polly Higgins
6th September, 2007
In my pursuit to better understand energy systems, my journey has taken me to Cragside in Northumberland more...Potentially poisonous printers petrify Trade union
Ecologist
1st August, 2007
Trade union UNISON today called for further research into the health risks of office laser printers. more...
Eco-home ruled a danger to dormice
News
30th July, 2007
The Roundhouse, an eco-home in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, faces demolition after an ecological survey concluded that it threatened biodiversity. more...
The Happy Planet Index: feeling better?
news
16th July, 2007
21st out of 30. That’s where the UK ranks on a new Europe-wide happiness index, released by think-tank the New Economics Foundation. more...
Are 'real nappies' a waste of time?
news
5th July, 2007
Last Friday, former waste minister Ben Bradshaw announced the end of the £30 million 'Real Nappy Campaign', claiming that "there was no significant difference between any of the environmental impacts of the disposable, home-use reusable and commercial laundry systems that were assessed". more...
Cooler Earth?
Isabel Hilton
5th July, 2007
More than one third of the world’s population, if the organisers’ hopes are realized, will tune in on Saturday to the Live Earth concerts – ten concerts – or nine if the Brazilian judge’s ban on the Rio event holds up -- on all seven continents, are aimed at raising awareness of climate change and persuading young music fans around the world to sign up to a climate pledge. more...
On your bike: Cycling soars in London
News
2nd July, 2007
As the UK looks forward to the Tour de France's launch in London and Kent next weekend new figures from Transport for London show that Londoners now make an average of 480,000 journeys a day by bike, an increase of 83% since 2000. more...
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Safe as Houses?
Jon Hughes and Rebecca Bole
1st July, 2007
The insurance industry is set to abandon two million British homeowners to the perils of climate change. Jon Hughes and Rebecca Bole report more...
Slow fashion
Kate Fletcher
1st June, 2007
Fast fashion is about greed. Kate Fletcher says it’s time to slow down and consider the true cost of choosing quantity over quality more...
Green lights are the new white
Laura Sevier
1st May, 2007
It’s not just our light bulbs we need to change, says Laura Sevier. We need to rethink the way we light more...
‘I’m walking into the jaws of hell’
Katharine Hamnett
1st May, 2007
Katharine Hamnett tells how Choose Love, hernew line with Tesco, is her attempt to change the
nasty business of making and selling clothes more...
Planning restrictions on home energy to be lifted
News
4th April, 2007
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will announce plans today that will enable homeowners to fit solar panels and wind turbines without applying for planning permission, the Guardian reports. more... The Barker Review of Land Use Planning
Simon Fairlie
8th March, 2007
Last December's Barker Review replaces democracy with economic growth. Ex Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie claims our land is being sold to the highest bidder more...
Green Construction or Pyramids of Waste
news
28th February, 2007
36 of the UK's leading construction companies, including British Land, Land Lease, HBOS and Barratt Homes, have launched a UK Green Building Council that will aim for "zero carbon, zero water and zero waste", according to its chairman Peter Rogers.more...
Airport expansion: passenger demand means small airports plan to get bigger
News
28th February, 2007
Record demand for cheap flights has resulted in 21 (mostly regional) airports publishing expansion plans in the last 5 years. They have been spurred on to do so by the Government’s plans to raise plane passenger numbers from 200 million in 2003 to 500 million by 2030. more...
Green Fingers
Paul Kingsnorth
1st February, 2007
Paul Kingsnorth gets to grips with gardening in tiny spaces - and finds that you can grow an amazing variety of food more...
The Great Garden Grab
Jack Shamash
1st February, 2007
You may see your garden as a spare room or a place to be in touch with nature, but changes to planning rules mean it is likely to attract higher council tax if it hasn’t already been snapped up by a developer. Jack Shamash reports more...
Growing pains
Stephan Harding
7th December, 2006
Stephan Harding, coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at the Schumacher College, explains why standard economic growth is not the answer, and why personal Tradable Energy Quotas are... more...
The new world of flying winemakers
Monty Waldin
1st December, 2006
Antipodean winemakers are still breathing fresh air into the stuffy Old World of wine. Monty Waldin reports more...Electric Cabaret
Michael Bugeja
1st January, 2007
Most of us have a party in our pockets – those digital devices that promised a global village. We found that village, all right, and it is peopled with idiots. Plugged into iPods, chatting into palms, we are lost in techno-torpor enveloping us 24/7 from any locale. more...Members
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