Trees lock away and store carbon-dioxide for hundreds of years. Scientists now want to mimic this feature by creating artificial trees for our parks, which could even act as street lights and harness wind power. The key scientist behind the … Continue reading →

Wherever you live, it’s likely that you have a library somewhere nearby, or access to a mobile library service. The obvious purpose of libraries is to lend books to the general public, and they offer many other services and facilities … Continue reading →

Wherever you choose as a destination, aside from cutting down on emissions generated by travel the environmental impact of a holiday can be further lowered by choosing to visit and take part in accommodation, eating establishments and activities that operate … Continue reading →

Travel planning, according to a 2007 Department for Transport report [1], is one of a range of “smarter choices”, also including measures such as car sharing, car clubs, tele-working and video-conferencing, which aim to reduce carbon emissions by reducing traffic … Continue reading →

How do you imagine a nice Friday evening? Would you like to go to the cinema or just have a delicious dinner at a fancy restaurant? Or do you want to go clubbing? If the environment is important for you, … Continue reading →

For those of us fleeing to warmer climes to escape the upcoming winter, spare a thought for our environment. Yes, as environmentalists (or, as seems to be the norm; environ-mentalists. Oh dear) we do always give thought to the greener … Continue reading →

There is no contesting that the internet has become a part of our everyday life.  Some would argue that reading something online is greener than buying a book or magazine which contains the same information.  In addition, reading your newspaper … Continue reading →

Cloud computing has been suggested as having the potential to reduce our dependence on hardware to access online services such as Google, Facebook, iTunes and as such should minimise the amount of e-waste generated annually while simultaneously lowering out our … Continue reading →

The issue of climate change has been weaving into every part of our lives, and many of us try to do something about it every day. The really committed ones can now even become greener while enjoying performing arts. It … Continue reading →

Yet-Ming Chiang of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and colleagues, are researching and developing a new rechargeable battery that will hopefully compete with the current existing crop of batteries residing in electric cars to date. Today’s electric cars contain batteries … Continue reading →