Leading supermarket Tescos has ditched its ‘eco-friendly’ carrier bags after research revealed they could be more damaging to the environment than conventional plastic bags. As mentioned on this blog, so-called eco friendly carrier bags which are thicker and more durable than conventional carrier bags, can cause more harm than good. While they are made of [...]

£40,000 for Eco Businesses Eco-friendly businesses can get up to £40,000 for any green ideas that can help tackle climate change, thanks to an award scheme being run by Shell. Open to all UK-based small businesses, the Shell Springboard Awards will be given to viable and innovative business ideas that can help lead to reductions [...]

Cab drivers up and down the country are in a drive to save fuel this month as part of an eco-friendly challenge organised by fuel company, Shell. The Smarter Cab Drivers Challenge is a month-long driving challenge to help cab drivers become more fuel-efficient in their driving, which wil not ony help the environment but also [...]

The UK is to be home to the world’s first major tidal power station, which will provide enough electricity to power 10,000 homes. The renewable energy station is to be built between the Hebridean islands if Islay and Jura. Generating enough energy to power the homes and distilleries on the islands, famous the their malt [...]

With the annual Academy Awards last week and British film The King’s Speech taking many of the top prizes, leading man winner, Colin Firth, was showing off some eco-friendly clothing when he picked up his best actor Oscar. The fifty-year-old actor and his wife, Livia, wore eco-friendly outfits at this year’s Academy awards to help [...]

Last month, world leaders met in Cancun, Mexico to discuss the environment and future global policies aimed at reducing emission in a bid to slow global warming and help poorer countries, and those areas likely to be worst hit by global warming, cope with the consequences. Here is what happened at this eco friendly conference: [...]

Earth Day is celebrating its fortieth anniversary with the largest number of people expected to take part in the entire history of the campaign. Started in 1970 by US politician, Gaylord Nelson, as a demonstration to raise awareness of conservation, Earth Day has grown year on year with at 1.5 billion people expected to take [...]

More and more people getting interested in environmental issues all the time and in doing so, many of the long running environmental campaigns that were once seen as fringe movements are now becoming mainstream events. Earth Day is one such movement. Started in 1970 by the US senator Gaylord Nelson, it has grown from being [...]

Many of us who use the Internet on a regular basis – maybe to do our shopping or banking – we perhaps think we are being kind to the environment, after all conducting transactions online means we don’t have to leave the house and use the car. However, if a new search engine’s claim, is [...]

For many people generating our own electricity from the sun is an expensive pipe dream, especially those of us that live in cloudy Britain. However, a new report published by the European Union’s Energy Institute, suggests otherwise. They suggest that solar power could be used to heat half the homes in Europe by 2020 and [...]