Sundance Renewables in Wales is a pioneering workers' co-operative and social enterprise converting used cooking oil into a low emissions alternative to diesel
… Recycling used cooking oil to power diesel … to diesel Sundance Renewables has been recycling used cooking oil since 2004 at the … and West Wales. This contributes to community recycling and bolsters the local economy. Like …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… | 3rd August 2016 Comment Waste Consumerism Recycling Economics Green Economy Society UK … answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal … of potential resources, hidden from use. Recycling is perhaps the most commonly …
Oxford scientists launch ambitious roadmap for circular carbon plastics economy.
… Another problem is the lack of effective recycling – in 2019, only nine per cent of the … turned into new products through mechanical recycling. The majority ended up in landfills … plastics which are recoverable, maximising recycling very significantly, targeting 95% …
Richmond council has become the first in the country to run its entire vehicle fleet on 100 per cent recycled biodiesel, while Lincolnshire is using the stuff to patch roads
… Councils Local Authorities Energy Waste And Recycling Transport biodiesel1.jpg Richmond …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
Big Lemon Bus: Tom Druitt Jan Goodey | 25th June 2009 Activism Take Action Local Hero Chip Fat Fuel Oil Bus Transport big_lemon.jpg Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
CASE STUDY: starting a local biofuel bus service Jan Goodey | 1st October 2008 Activism Transport Case Study Chip Fat Fuel Oil Bus Biofuel big_lemon.jpg Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's …
Support and mentoring available for new circular economy start-ups working in the construction industry.
… to an announcement from the London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB). The accelerator, run … Hubbard, Chief Executive at London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB), announced the … on a press release from London Waste and Recycling Board. The International Panel on …
Next week, the Hay Festival in Wales kicks off with its usual big name line-up of writers. Andy Fryers, organiser of the festival's special 'Greenprint' initiative, talks about expanding green events and shrinking footprints
… Sevier | 20th May 2010 Activism Waste And Recycling Transport Car Share Bus Service Hay … has been on waste. We were doing very little recycling back in 2005. Last year about 55 per …
Under its minority Green administration, Brighton & Hove is an exemplar of progressive politics that is realising huge social, economic and environmental gains, writes Rob Shepherd. Maybe that's why political opponents are so desperate to brand it a failure ...
… then official strike by the city's refuse and recycling collectors and street cleaners. The … with mountains of refuse sacks and unemptied recycling boxes. The dispute also exposed … city centre is adjusting to a new communal recycling scheme that in time is expected to …
Electric cars are no longer just a 'pipe dream' claims transport minister as he announces £60 million in funds for charging points and grants for people buying new vehicles
UK announces £5,000 subsidy for electric car buyers from 2011 Tom Levitt | 14th December 2010 News Electric Cars Renewables Energy Transport electriccar.jpg Government advisors have said the UK …
With the UK capital struggling to get commuters to work on time following strike action by tube and train drivers this week, JAN GOODEY reports on a project that will bring the first solar-powered electric buses to the public in the Spring
Solar-powered electric buses ‒ a UK first Jan Goodey | 10th January 2017 Ethical Living Transport Rewewables Green Energy solar bus story.jpg With the UK capital struggling to get commuters to work …
Advanced new catalysts are poised to stimulate a clean energy revolution, writes Tim Radford. An organic replacement for the precious metal platinum would allow surplus electricity to be cheaply converted into hydrogen fuel, then burnt in low cost fuel cells to propel 'green' vehicles and generate power on demand.
… alive the hopes of the ultimate in energy recycling. In the first process, water …
Every summer a team of cyclists set off across Britain stopping along the way to perform an eco-themed play to schools, festivals and communities. Welcome to the Otesha Project...
… HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE CASE STUDY: recycling bicycles It’s the greener way to go, … of true pedal power. HOW TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE Recycling used cooking oil to power diesel …
Students in Finland are tearing down the barriers between sustainability and high fashion.
In the borderlands Brendan Montague | 13th November 2023 | Comment Resurgence & Ecologist Finland Fashion Industry Sustainable Fashion Economics Climate Breakdown img_8575.jpeg Students in Finland …
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale
… foremost, individual ‘lifestyle’ reforms – recycling, solar panels, rainforest coffees, … cars or chemicals or PhDs or golf courses or recycling centres), is unquestioningly …
Inequality is on the agenda at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, write David Sogge & Nick Buxton. A good thing, right? But look at the proposed 'solutions': ramp up the neoliberal 'development' model; lighten business regulation; pursue globalisation with greater vigor ... Yes, you got it. They would all accelerate the transfer the world's wealth upwards to corporate elites.
… is bad for economic growth. Remedies? Recycling failed paradigms The solution to any …
We must urgently move from Petropolis and dependence on fossil fuels to Ecopolis supported by regenerative economies.
… the rapid deployment of renewable energy, for recycling and remanufacturing urban wastes, … Brazil, large public displays show how the recycling of timber and forest products has … technical cycle of urban systems. Whilst the recycling of paper, metals and glass is now …
This year's prestigious Leontief Prize for economics has been awarded to Professors James Boyce and Joan Martinez-Alier for their ground-breaking theoretical and applied work integrating ecological, developmental, and justice-oriented approaches into the field of economics. They are worthy winners, says NICK MEYNEN
Announcing the 2017 winners of The Leontief Prize for Economics Nick Meynen | 29th March 2017 News Economics Sustainable Economics Social Justice Environment martinez-alier.jpg This year's …
We must create an economic ethos that places mutual collaboration above profit.
… municipal landfill waste to composting and recycling by 2016. Degradation It aims to … 2040. Moreover, a 2020 report found that the recycling economy could create around 6,300 …
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
… in technologies, such as energyefficiency and recycling, are so easy that it will make the …
Faced with a planetary emergency, is deep ecological transformation, a ‘megamorphosis’ of modern society, still a possibility?
… turned into unusable, dispersed waste. Recycling is often avoided because of costs … management mantra of refusing, reducing, recycling and remanufacturing, which has long … green agenda. We need to be clear that much recycling, as currently practised, is actually …
Cars are evil, right? But what if they ran on hydrogen, did 300 miles per gallon, were leased rather than owned, and were produced under an open source business model...
… the maintenance of the car, the fuel and the recycling of the car at the end of its life. …