Re-Posted from 2degrees | written by Sarah Daly, mygreeneye on behalf of Best Foot Forward. Ecological fast moving consumer goods manufacturer Ecover has announced a major innovation in its aim to reduce its impacts.From 2014 […]
Re-Posted from The Dirt via Grist, author Jared Green. Last month, standing at the Old Capitol Pump House, a restored building along the Anacostia River, Washington, D.C., Mayor Vincent Gray announced the launch […]
The town of Wadebridge in Cornwall looks set to become Britain’s first ‘solar-powered town’. The town’s local MP and chamber of commerce are pushing through plans to generate a third of Wadebridge’s electricity […]
The biggest problem facing wildlife around the world is a lack of space. We humans are taking up so much land for our own activities that it barely seems like anyone even thinks […]
Judy Wicks opened The White Dog Café in Philadelphia as a muffin shop in 1983, and since then has been involved with social activism and community work. The café’s mission was to serve […]
The Drake Landing Solar Community (DLSC) is nestled inside the Drake Landing housing development in the north east corner of Okotoks, Alberta, 15 minutes south of Calgary. 52 houses are heated solely by […]
The World Solar Challenge is a solar-powered car race which covers 3021 km (1,877 miles) through the Australian Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide. The 2013 race is from 6th to 13th October. The race attracts teams from around the world, […]
Induced hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracturing, commonly known as fracking, is a technique used to release petroleum, natural gas (including shale gas, tight gas, and coal seam gas), or other substances for extraction
“The current obsession with human behaviour change is a strategy which has very limited scope for long-term success: instead, we should try to encourage thinking.” A while ago, a colleague and I visited […]
By 1995, nine of the world’s 17 major fishing grounds were in precipitous decline and four had been commercially ‘fished out’. The EU began to decommission 40% of its fishing fleet, the Malaysian […]