Do you get a veg box? Have you voted yet? Now’s your chance! Voting is now open for the 2007 UK Veg Box Awards. So if you think your box scheme provider deserves a pat on the back, please take a minute to fill in the online nomination form: Vote Now Every vote counts and [...]

My thoughts and prayers go out to all those who have lost their homes in the recent wildfires of Southern CA.  News reports are saying an estimate of $1 billion in property damages and there is the threat that the main power lines that connect these counties to the main electrical grid could be destroyed!  I can’t imagine [...]

 Wake Up And Smell The Planet: The Non-pompous, Non-preachy Grist Guide to Greening Your Day by Grist.org, edited by Brangien Davis Never has a book on going green made me laugh so hard!  Last month when I flew to Michigan I used my time on the plane to read an advance copy of this book [...]

I have just heard about this really interesting festival that’s taking place in Newcastle this week. The Dott 07 festival is for anyone residing in the North East (or anywhere else for that matter) with an interest in sustainability and an eye for good design. Dott (designs of the time)07 festival is the culmination of [...]

Do you have a wild streak? I hope so, as I want to challenge ALL GGG readers to go really wild and do at least one thing to benefit wildlife this week as part of the BBC, Wildlife Trust and BTCV Breathing Places ‘Wild Week’ (22nd to 28th October). Breathing Places and ‘Wild Week’ aims to encourage [...]

Hey, long time no blog, I’ve been busy moving away from the New Town out to a more greener and peaceful part of Edinburgh (post on the city farm will come shortly). I can’t find more information on this, but the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust has given a grant to Changeworks, our local environmental organisation [...]

To mark energy saver week starting on Monday the Energy Savings Trust has devised a questionnaire to help you figure out how influential you are in encouraging others to tackle climate change. The questionnaire measures your awareness and amount of engagement and then pops you in a category of ‘type of influencer’. I scored as [...]

The WWF are calling for support in urging the government to strengthen the UK climate change bill. Strangely the bill doesn’t include emissions from aviation and shipping and the government aren’t planning to include them. Does that make any sense considering they are two of the fastest growing sources of emissions? WWF will be taking [...]

Hurrah! It is now easier to recycle Tetra-Pak packaging in Nottingham and other places in the UK. So when I have finished with my carton of soya milk or fruit juice I can take it to one of my local recycling points instead of posting it to a Recycling Centre in Somerset. It is great that Nottingham [...]

here’s a list of green stories that has made me happy. I have decided to focus on the positive ways of being green instead of the fear that things are looking really grim for mother earth. -small increase in green spaces can offset temperature rise – a 10% increase of green space in cities would [...]