FareShare is the national charity working to relieve food poverty by providing quality food and other support services to organisations working with disadvantaged people in the community. FareShare works with over 100 food businesses to minimise food waste by providing practical solutions to help ensure that the maximum amount of ‘fit for purpose’ food is [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Fareshare: delivering surplus food to people in need.
Posted in Community Projects, Food, Health, Implementation, Recycle, UK, Waste on September 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Letting nature take its course.
Posted in Conservation, Nature, Policy, UK on September 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Fifteen million trees were torn down by the Great Storm of 1987, and in our panic to restore England’s landscape in the aftermath, we succeeded only in creating more chaos. Twenty years on, nature has proved it can heal itself without the help of mankind. So what lessons can we learn from our land’s innate [...]
OYBike – the London bike hire solution.
Posted in Technology, Transport, UK on September 26, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Tourists can now see London on two wheels using the OYBike system of rental bikes. The OYBike System is a street-based rental station network that allows you to hire and return a bicycle via your mobile phone.
The OYBike system is based on the availability of rental bicycles at key locations:
*Tube stations
*Public buildings
*Key transport [...]
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Posted in Architecture, Business, Communication, Implementation, Recycle on September 19, 2007 | 3 Comments »
This month the top search is for McDonald’s, followed by (Norwegian) grass roofs.
I’ve noticed a significant number of people searching for local information on recycling so putting this type of info onto the web is obviously needed. ‘Effective communication is key to enabling people to implement environment solutions‘ says the cow.
The Vespa electric.
Posted in Technology, Transport, UK on September 17, 2007 | 10 Comments »
The Powascooter PS168, a bike which aims to become the Vespa of the 21st century, is an electric scooter. Fed up with traffic jams, high car taxes and parking charges then this transport option maybe for you.
The concept is simple. Charge the bike for four hours on a standard mains point, via its portable adapter, [...]
How renewable energy can boost regional business.
Posted in Business, EU, Energy, Funding, Implementation, Renewable energy, UK on September 10, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Lowestoft has ambitions to become the UK’s wind energy capital. This week it will host a conference with industrial leaders from wind energy companies, including speakers from Germany, Denmark and the UK. The conference will look at current successes and the outlook for Lowestoft within the off-shore wind energy sector. The event is being funded [...]
Tetra pak recycling in the UK.
Posted in Business, Communication, Education, Funding, Recycle, UK on September 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
We all throw away tetra paks into our bins rather than recycle them because we’ve been told they’re not recyclable. Well, that’s no longer true. Tetra Pak are taking certain actions to make this possible. They began by recruiting a National Recycling Officer in 2006 and now help fund local authority recycling initiatives.
Their site says, [...]
Car free housing schemes.
Posted in Architecture, Climate change, Community Projects, Implementation, Policy, Renewable energy, Transport, UK on September 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Image: from Carbusters magazine. They provide useful background to car free development.
This new approach to modern urban living is supported in Government planning policy guidance and for the city of London, by the Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy and London Plan. Camden is one such central London borough that has this approach on its agenda. [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Communication, Recycle, Reuse, UK on September 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Can’t believe I didn’t think of a ’solutions’ approach for the environment before. It’s so obvious isn’t it, yet I guess understandably we get bound up with the many crisises surrounding us. Solutions to those problems are however the only way forward and I can see there’s a lot of interest out there for this.
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