Green Business Award

The Mumpreneur Green Business Award has gone this year to TotsBots, makers of the well-known reusable nappies. Read more at the Mumpreneur website.

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Why Buy Fairtrade?

Read our new article on Fairtrade to understand why you should support this cause.

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REVIEW - Roberts SolarDAB Radio

We have now tested this Roberts solarDAB Solar Powered DAB Radio for 6 months sitting on a kitchen window ledge which gets the sun for at least half of daylight hours and it has remained fully charged.

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UK Energy Saving on Twitter

As you can see from the widget on the right, UK Energy Saving has now joined Twitter with the username ukenergysaver. Why not follow us for the latest energy saving tips, news and website update information?

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National Liftshare Week 4-8 October 2010

If you have been thinking about car sharing or looking for ways to save energy and money, perhaps the up and coming National Liftshare Week will give you the incentive to start moving in the right direction.

"According to the Dept for Transport, 24% of UK passenger carbon emissions come from commuting, and 91% of car commuting is single occupancy. This is totally unsustainable. There are 38 million empty car seats on the UK's roads every morning rush hour alone - liftshare Week aims to help fill some of those seats, reducing pollution and cutting congestion. Because if the national average car occupancy can be raised from 1.6 to just 2 people, the UK's CO2 emissions from cars will experience a 20% reduction (Niches,2007)."

To find out more about this event, visit the liftshare.com website.

REVIEW: Recycling: The Essential Guide

......So, onto the main body of the book. I found this to be very well laid out with each material area (e.g. paper, metal, plastic) containing information on why it is important to recycle that particular waste, how that is done and, importantly, ‘What you can do’. All this information is interspersed with images and diagrams and some truly interesting case studies which help to bring the whole area into focus. In fact I think these are a very important feature of this book, turning a potentially dry topic into something tangible and offering something to which we can aspire in terms of living greener lives.....

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