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Changing Lifestyles with Globally Local
‘Globally Local manages a number of businesses and social activities directly, and supports and promotes others who are in the business of changing the world for the better’
I caught up with Spearhead of the initiative Malcolm Currie yesterday in the new premises of ‘Changing Lifestyles’ in Birmingham’s Lower Loveday Street, to discuss what he hoped to achieve [...]
Biofuels: and Virgin Express
Richard Branson’s Virgin trains are now using Biodiesel as their primary source of energy in the hope to cut down on their carbon emmissions.
Biodiesel fuel is similar to diesel gasoline but is made from a blend of diesel and natural renewable resources like corn maize.
Greenergy, the company providing the fuel to Virgin, uses rapeseed oil, palm [...]
Birmingham Sustainable Schools Award
Tomorrow Birmingham’s City Council events team, marks World Environment day by hosting the Sustainable Schools award at Austin Court with Mininster for Sustainability Lord Hunt attending to award 14 schools for their green initiatives undertaken in the last year.
Birmingham has 450 state schools, of which now over 125 are now taking part in the initiative started last year [...]
Buy Fairtrade in Birmingham
Looking to buy fairtrade products in Birmingham but don’t know where to look? Fear not dear readers here is your ultimate guide to buying fair in Brum.
1.Natural World, 26 Great Western Arcade
2.Greenscene, 7 Gibb Terrace, The Custard Factory
3.Leverton’s, 218 Mary Vale Road
4.Traidcraft, Carrs Lane Church Centre
5.Friends of the Earth Shop, Allison Street
6.Pronto Covenience Store, Birmingham [...]
Earth hour: An idiots guide
Tonight at 8:30PM your street may be a little darker than usual, that’s because today marks the 3rd annual ‘Earth Hour’, a simple event dedicated to switching off the lights in your town, city or street to aid and highlight needless energy consumtion and help save OUR planet just that little bit.
This year Earth Hour is aiming for [...]
Twitter tweaks energy usage at green awards
Social Media and Environmentalism combined as the Tweet-a-watt claimed the annual greener gadgets design competition.
The enviro-ratti assembled in New York and ensured with their rapturous reception, that the gadget registered highest on an audience clap-o-meter, scooping the £3000 prize money and donating it straight to Philnthropic organisation Engineers without Borders.
The simple device which can amazingly be built at home, encourages energy conservation by measuring and [...]
Simple and efficient energy conservation in Germany, Heureka!
German Bright spark Heinrich Frühauf had a lightbulb moment recently, pioneering a new energy saving technology, using mobile phones to alert street lamps when they are needed by residents of Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz in the Erzegebirge region of Germany.
Frühauf, resident of Doblitz, a nearby town who has been successfully using a similar scheme for over a year [...]