5 Everyday changes you can make to reduce your carbon footprint
Everyone is away of their carbon footprint. We all know that we should be doing more to limit the damage that we do to the environment, but what do you do? It’s difficult to know where to start and short of selling your car for an electric one (or better yet, a bike), installing solar […]
The 5 best creatures to encourage in your garden
There’s nothing that can be done about wildlife in your garden. The great outdoors is nature’s domain and that’s where it lives. So what do you do about the pests in your garden that want to damage your plants, dig-up your soil and nibble on your fruit? In this article, we’re going to show you […]
October Gardening Tips
It’s October, the start of autumn and the beginning of everything changing in the garden before winter. It may seem like there’s not much to be done in the garden this month, but work put in this earlier in autumn will pay dividends when the garden begins to pick up in spring. Follow out quick […]
Why we built a solar farm in the notoriously dreary England
You may have heard that Eco Sustainable Solutions currently runs the largest solar farm in the UK. At over 380 acres, it generates over 70MW of energy and powers more than 27,000 homes in the local area of Bournemouth at its peak. The solar farm is so large, in fact, that it requires 6 separate […]
How your dinner helps to power thousands of homes.
It’s an unfortunate fact of life, food gets wasted. No matter how hard we try, food goes off, kids don’t finish their meals and we often make too much. Previously this food would be wasted, thrown into the landfill or on the compost heap to rot. However in Piddlehinton, Dorset is our facility that takes […]
How Elon Musk’s new solar roofs will change more than how we get our energy
Just a few days ago, Tesla announced 2 new products that could change the way the world looks at solar energy, quite literally. Elon Musk’s latest endeavour into the solar market with solar roof tiles sees Tesla finalising the ultimate bundle for homes to become self-sufficient. The solar panels, designed to be installed and look […]
5 Advertising Campaigns That Make you Want to Recycle
Recycling is something that we all know we should be doing. Some people are good at it, breaking down everything into their own respective bins for recycling; some people aren’t great at it, simply throwing everything to landfill. This is wear advertising comes in, it’s not like normal advertising and it’s not selling anything in […]
How Turf Is Made
Turf is a fantastic way to give your landscaping project the finishing touch that it deserves, without breaking the bank. It’s quick to lay, doesn’t break the bank and gives unparalleled results. But how is it made? How do Rolawn create their crisp, fine rolls of countryside that we can unfurl in our gardens like a […]
Into the Wild – Wild Grasses in our Parks
It’s not surprising information to hear that Britain’s insect population is on the decline. In the UK, studies have found that 76% of Butterfly species are declining in population, invertebrate populations have fallen by 45% over 35 years and that beetle, bee and wasp numbers have dropped by 60%. So what is causing this steep […]
Biomass – Innovations in Energy
Biomass fuel is fuel sourced or derived from living (or recently living) organisms. This generally consists almost entirely of plant material, often wood, but can also be plant and animal matter. Any carbon within these materials has been previously absorbed from the atmosphere as part of its lifecycle. This happens in plants as they use […]