Easter Recycling Tips
We’re all in the same rather heavy boat this week… we’ve eaten chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner but have you thought about what to do with the packaging?
The House Made Of Plastic
Following our recent post, which highlights the practicalities and benefits of using straw as a building material; we now delve into a similar, yet completely opposite, building material. Plastic. 300,000,000 tons of plastic (three hundred million) are produced every year and we recycle just 8% of it. It’s been predicted that in just 10 years, […]
The House Made of Straw
It may seem as though houses have been built the same for years, if not hundreds of years, with very small changes happening to make them more effective as time goes by. We’ve introduced triple glazing, cavity walls, more efficient insulation and energy efficient heating solutions but there’s one building material that remains unchanged throughout […]
Sustainable Sustainability
In today’s modern age, we hear endless stories of how important sustainability is to the continued development of today’s world.
Next Gen Biodegradables
Packaging, especially food packaging, is the key contributor to waste in the world.
Last Chance Tourism
Last chance tourism is the tourism industry that is built around the last chance to see something. It could be the last chance to see wild Rhinoceros in Africa, the last chance to see the Great Barrier Reef or the last chance to see Argentina’s glacier fields.If you knew that before long something would be […]
Carbon – What’s next?
Whilst the UK is slowly but surely lowering its dependence on carbon, we’re still not completely weaned off the stuff. The UK released over 7 metric tons of C02 emissions per capita in 2013, down from 11.8 in 1970, but still a long way to go before we reach 0. As a nation, we are […]
The Future of Solar Energy
The UK’s renewable energy capacity reached its highest peak in quarter 3 of 2016, generating 25% of the UK’s electricity requirement (33.4GW). In just 12 months, the UK has increased its renewable energy capacity by 11.3% (3.4GW) and one third of that renewable energy capacity now comes from Solar PV. Solar energy, between Q3 2015 […]
5 Things You Didn’t Know You Can’t Recycle
Recycling is one of the most important things that everyday people can do to help lower their carbon footprint, limit landfill growth and protect the environment.
Renewable Energy – 5 Countries beating the UK
A world without fossil fuels or pollution feels like it’s a long way off.