This is a free event for SMEs, recyclers and community organisations.
Here’s what they say on the event’s publicity e-mail
Companies: Are you aware that you could save up to 4% of your annual turnover by using Why Waste’s FREE online waste exchange to find or reuse recycling outlets for your waste?
Community Groups: Did you know that [...]

I don’t think I’ve mentioned it before but we’re in the middle of buying our first house!
It’s in Worthing, about 15 minutes on the train from where we live now.  We’re very excited but cautious - we’ve heard too many tales of woe about all the things that can go wrong before exchange of contract!
However, this weekend [...]

(picture is header from sew green blog)
I love crafting - especially reading blogs about crafts - and if you look at my del.icio.us feed you will see that a lot of my links are links to cool craft projects.
Today I stumbled across the Sew Green blog - which had a lot of real cool [...]

Imagine a street one evening. All the houses are lit up. Inside, people play with their computer games, watch TV and get toasty by their gas fires. Imagine the next evening, one house throws a Power Party. They’ve invited all the neighbours, reminding them to turn down the power before they leave.
Or, imagine that an [...]

So on goes my slightly unhealthy obessession with bags, the plastic variety this time.
Fortunately Lite Green are here to get us talking about this issue again with their poll about whether plastic bags should be taxed. They also provide some very interesting facts about what supermarkets are doing (or not more like) to ease the [...]

Hurrah! Fashion Made Fair is coming to Brighton!
When we lived in London, we loved getting the chance at the Old Truman Brewery off Brick Lane to see our favourite fair trade fashion come out of the catalogue and onto the clothes hanger.  So I was thrilled to see a poster announcing that Green Threads was bringing the fair [...]

“Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be, stop you.  Go on anyway.  Everything depends on those who go on anyway.”                                          Robert Henri
This [...]

Given that the modern business is constantly trying to find ways to “streamline”, “cut-costs” and “achieve efficiencies” then it’s good to know that they can at least part achieve these desired savings whilst helping the environment at the same time. From the tiny home-based business to the mighty corporations everyone can make a difference to [...]

Now I’m not actually a parent myself but I do tend to find myself worrying about how to teach a child (perhaps one day) about the world. My partner and I marvel at what an amazing and scary responsibility it is to be the main input on a little person’s life for many years and [...]

I recently received an e-mail from one of our readers, Seyi. I could totally relate to it (because when we got our recycle bin I wrote about it on City Hippy) and it was so positive that I asked him if I could post it on GGG. He said “sure”, so here goes…..
Don’t know who to [...]