Timberland, in partnership with Changents.com and the support of TrendsUpdates, is sponsoring the “Spot Green” contest created to find the coolest green projects and trends inspiring eco-friendly lifestyles in communities across the globe. Trend spotters can submit a photo, video or brief description of the eco-craze or green project in their hometown at SpotGreenContest.com. The top three Green Trend Spotters will win a pair of Timberland Earthkeeper boots and featured in a video on Changents.com and TrendsUpdates.com

Timberland Earthkeeper Hero Cate Trotter (a.k.a. the “Green Insider”), a 27-year-old environmental sustainability trend spotter and “greentrepreneur”—green business expert, together with TrendsUpdates will judge the submissions. Cate, a green trend spotting pro, is sharing stories about her journey through London while she discovers emerging trends from its green scene including environmentally sustainable break-throughs, eco-architectural feats, ethical fashion trends, green technology innovations, and Gen Y eco-conscious culture spanning from art to nightlife.

So far, Cate’s made some cool progress. She took a well-known creative agency and mobile phone brand on a tour of London’s greenest communities, helping them understand new approaches to energy saving in an innovative light. She had an in-depth tour of Sanford, Britain’s first street to have energy saving features on every house, cutting carbon by 60% already – the same as the government’s target for 2050. Also, she showed the associates of a government department round a cutting-edge green office, showing them new (but tangible) ways that they could personally reduce their impact at work. Judi Leon, Head of Sustainable Operations, said “it motivated our overseas colleagues to think more laterally about what more they can do to green their Embassies.

Help Cate discover green trends in your town.

Artciel by Jennifer Simckowitz

An event for anyone in the construction or building trade, ‘The Day Of Reclamation’ takes place in Brighton on 27th March 2009

Hosted by Tiger Enterprise Ltd this event has pulled together key industry experts leading a packed schedule of talks and discussions about the important issues in sustainable construction. Including  how to save money by using reclaimed materials, how to use reclaimed building materials and how to implement your site waste management plans efficiently. The varied and entertaining seminars will provide some of the main talking points for the event.

This event will also include a selection of interesting and interactive stalls including BRE and Remade S.E, Brighton’s Green Centre and Brighton and Hove City Council.

For more information about attending or having a stall contact event@reuseitdontloseit.co.uk

This is a free event with limited places, so book early to avoid disappointment. To find out more and to register visit www.reuseitdontloseit.co.uk

The environmental charity Earthwatch are hosting the first of their Expedition Open Days for 2009 in their Oxford Office, Mayfield House, 256 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DE, from 10.00am -1.30pm on Saturday 24th January.

This is your opportunity to meet the Earthwatch team – get the lowdown on what they do, why they need you and what to expect from the Earthwatch volunteering experience on environmental research projects in the field.

Free to all, but by ticket only – light refreshments and a sandwich lunch will be provided on the day.

For tickets and more information contact their Events Department on (01865) 318856; events@earthwatch.org.uk

Visit www.earthwatch.org/europe/open-days-09 to find out more.

Pure Design and lots of other eco fashion brands will be presenting a wide range of products at the Eco Fashion Show and Party in London next week.

Purchase some of the great eco goods on sale and take part in the auction to bid for your favourite piece

Date: Tuesday 12th August ’08
Time: 6pm
Venue: Surya Bar – Club for Climate

To book tickets visit www.eco-fashion.co.uk and for more information about the event visit the Pure Design Blog

Pure Design guests can get a 25% discount on tickets for the show and party – Download the invitation for more details.

The event is organised by Striding Out, a networking and professional development association for social entrepreneurs.

There are so many green building conferences, expos, and tradeshows that it’s hard to keep of track of them all. For the past two years I’ve attended West Coast Green here in San Francisco, which to me, is a rather important one to go to, as they put everyone together under one roof!

The conference is still a month away yet everyone is abuzz with its keynote speaker this year, former Vice-President, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Eco-Warrior Extraordinaire Al Gore! Also not to be missed is Sarah Susanka, best selling author of the book The Not So Big House , and author David Suzuki who is also the TV host of The Nature of Things.

This year the conference has moved to the San Jose Convention Center in the heart of Silicon Valley. It will be held on September 25-27. One of the unique things that sets this conference apart from others is the “Homeowners Day” on the 27th. Most conventions are geared toward the professionals in that particular industry; West Coast Green offers a day that’s open to the public and all of the events and speakers are formatted for homeowners and their interests.

(If the price of admission is a little too steep for you there are volunteer opportunities available which give you free pass to all of its events.)

It looks to be another fun-filled, educational event. I hope to see some of you there!

Those of you in the Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Warwickshire area looking for a green themed day out at the weekend might like to visit the Fold’s GreenFest on Saturday. It is being opened by Brigit Strawbridge of the ‘It’s not easy being green’ TV show and Satish Kumar will also be giving a talk. Stalls include: solar and wind generators, insulation, electric cars, bikes, carbon footprinting, composting, live music, bar, real food, films, childrens activities and lots more…

The organisers have also managed to organise shuttle buses from Worcester town centre and Malvern so there is no need to bring the car. The Fold which is a farm sounds a great place, they have a nursery, art and craft studios and an eco cafe on the site so once you have visited the greenfest you can check out the the attractions of the farm too. More details about this event and other eco days out can be found on our Green Events page here.

See you there!

This meeting has been organised by Transition Nottingham which is part of a network of pioneering communities working to reduce our impact on the climate and increase our resilience to the effects of Peak Oil.

SPEAKER: Rob Hopkins, Architect of the Transition movement, co-founder of the Transition Network and and Transition Totnes.

Date: Tuesday 27th May 2008 5.45 – 6.45pm
Venue: BioCity, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham, NG1 1GF

Please download the event flyer for further information as well as www.transitionnottingham.org.uk

Please note this meeting is aimed at a business, professional and academic audience. It is additional to another event being organised by Transition Nottingham aimed a broader audience on the same evening, also with Rob Hopkins. The second event will be at the Nottingham Mechanics, North Sherwood St. at 7.30pm

If you’re in Nottingham this weekend come along to the Green Festival in the Arboretum.

There will be music, games, crafts, demonstrations and lots and lots of green businesses and organisations. Jez and I will be there with our Make Hay ethical e-media and Green Hosting stall and we’ll also publicise GGG of course!

This event is part of Nottingham’s Greenweeks to celebrate sustainability. It opens at 11.30am and finishes at 6pm on 25th May at the Arboretum on Waverley Street in Nottingham.
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If you’re around, come and say hello. It would be lovely to meet you.

For more details visit the Greenweeks website – www.greenweeks.org

When I received details about this event in Nottingam the organiser said “The name of the event is ‘Smarter than Yeast?’ Check out the dictionary definition of yeast and let’s hope we can prove we are!”

‘Smarter than Yeast’ is a day of fun and education for people in Nottingham who are concerned about environmental issues taking place on Sunday 3rd February, 2.00pm – 10.30pm at The Art Organisation, 21 Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3AJ

From 2pm to 6pm there will be:

A free shop – Take home some new (to you!) clothes

V3 Power- Learn about renewable technology and hand built wind turbines

Still Within- Find out about permaculture

From 6pm to 10.30pm there will be:

Peak Oil Talk – by local Ecological Economist Brian Davey

Plus – Eco Poetry, Collaborative Art, Live Music & Veggie Food

If you would like to showcase your group or share skills at this event contact Hannah or May at maisiebate@hotmail.com.