Environment

Save money and time by upgrading your computer rather than buying a new one.

Help to protect the environment by preventing unnecessary e-waste and save yourself money at the same time!

The energy required to produce a new computer is enough to run a computer for 10 years, and the energy saved by extending the life of your computer by a year could run it for 2 years. Watch the campaign video to find out more.

From bicycle parades and green blogging to rainwater harvesting and walking: Make 5th June a zero emissions day!

and help raise awareness about organic farming for a sustainable future for ourselves, our children, our environment and our planet.
During Welly Week everyone is invited to host a welly walk or wear their wellies to work and celebrate all that’s good about organic farming, gardening and food! Garden Organic are asking people to donate a pound for each day they wear their wellies to work. Go to the website to register and find out more..

The smell wafting over South East England may be from Dutch farmers spreading slurry, and could become an annual event if the Government goes ahead with its plan to ban winter slurry spreading.

says an investigation by ActionAid into the activities of the world’s biggest platinum mining company. The ActionAid report details how the local Bapedi community have lost access to their main means of livelihood – land and a safe water supply.

Swedish scientists have found trangenic oilseed rape plants still growing in a field despite a decade of intensive efforts to remove them. “We should assume that GM organisms cannot be confined, and ask instead what will become of them when they escape.” said Prof Mark Westoby. “The government must now tear up its weak proposals for the ‘coexistence’ of GM with organic and conventional crops, and put in place tough rules that protect GM-free food and farming.” said FoE. FSA declares GM rice unsafe

The Home Office has recently released a consultation paper to gauge the public’s feelings around protesting in and around Parliament. You are invited to let your thoughts and feelings be known. And the BBC is asking its readers to vote whether a third runway and sixth terminal should be built at Heathrow.

Visitors to Grand Designs Live ExCel London (8-10 June 2007) will be
invited to visit the ultimate Green Garden and learn how to stylishly
transform their own gardens while helping to tackle climate change.

The winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2007 include Peruvian indigenous leader Julio Cusirichi Palacios, Zambian Hammerskjoeld Simwinga for setting up economic alternatives to elephant poaching and Willie Corduff from Ireland, jailed for opposition to a Shell pipeline.

The Guardian suggests some greener alternatives to standard plastic seasonal decorations