After losing my home and everything in it, I moved to New York, but my heart—as they say—still knows what it means to miss New Orleans. I not only miss it with my whole heart every waking moment, but I want to affect great green changes there. I want to do it for my beloved [...]

So our governor wants to bring the sexyback to the environmental movement! 
 
 He spoke recently at our nation’s capital regarding how we can intice more people to focus on environmental issues by making it “hip and sexy”!  He used the bodybuilding industry, an area he is extremely familiar with, as an analogy:
[Weight-lifting was once considered a [...]

All this week I have been surrounded by a virtuous and, I must confess, rather smug glow thanks to a new discovery: Brighton & Hove Council’s journey planner website, Journey On.
Following on neatly from Arcadia’s post below, this excellent innovative website allows you to count the carbon, the calories and the cost of your daily journeys [...]

Hello Everyone! I haven’t posted in a while as I’ve been out recovering from a pretty major surgery a few weeks ago. All is well now and I’m starting to get my energy back and feel like myself again. My doctor is encouraging me to walk as my strength permits me (and the pain medication [...]

Recently a friend drew my attention to a way that I could help raise money for charity and it not cost me a penny!
Interesting eh? The best part is that all you need to do is search the internet and we all do that don’t we? Of course I’m talking about the search engine, Everyclick.
At Make [...]

Yesterday I went to an exhibition in Edinburgh for the Six Cities Design Festival, all about furniture for ‘living in motion’.  It’s at the City Art Centre and is definitely worth a look.
The festival is taking place across Scotland’s six cities (funnily enough…).  In Inverness the focus will be sustainable design.  I’m very tempted to [...]

Wind power is one of the fastest growing alternative energy sources available. What could be cleaner than capturing the power of the moving air and turning it into energy. This is a powerful metaphor on a personal level and in our work to make relationships sustainable.
The air in your relationship flows from the communication that [...]

the enviromental ministry of Denmark has started campaign to get all the inhabitants of Denmark to lower they CO2- emission by a ton.
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- if you turn down your floorheating of your house from 24 to 20 degress you will reduce your co2 emission by 4650 kg a year
- if you take the cellphone [...]

For those of you who like to get out and about the the Aberdeenshire Council Ranger Service organise a number of events throughout the year which are designed for you to learn more about your environment, the unique countryside and to have fun at the same time. Some also give you the chance to put [...]

It’s interesting… In the last few weeks, people have been telling us their veg box scheme has started to charge for letting them opt out of any veggies they don’t like.
Most schemes used to offer this service for free (for up to 3 items), but we’ve found out that there’s a growing trend to charge [...]