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Pic of the day, 30 April
“Wellies are stripey for a reason”, by Flickr user orangeacid
May Day is tomorrow, but you wouldn’t know it as it hammers down across much of the country. With that in mind, we thought you might enjoy this, the first in an occasional series.
Forget April’s showers - where are May’s flowers?
Am I the only novice flower gardener who got caught out by April’s cold snap and forgot to plant anything? I should be honest with you. When it comes to allotments, I’m definitely of the Jenny-Come-Lately, fairweather variety of gardener.
Eco search engine branches out
The world’s first ‘green’ search engine launched in 14 countries across the world last week, and claims to have already sponsored the planting of over 3,000 trees.
How to print the web you want
Ever print pages off the web? Frustrated by wasting your ink on all the banners, images and adds on the page that you don’t need?
Well here’s a neat trick: Aardvark.
It’s a free gadget that allows you to “clean up” webpages before you print them. And it’s brilliant.
Simply download the application - it’s designed for the [...]
Thinking outside the cardboard box
The arrival of spring brings big changes as animals and humans alike make the final push out of hibernation to embrace new starts. For many of us, this means moving house: but how best to manage all the cardboard that goes with it without passing the burden on to the environment?
How many trees is Earth Day worth?
Today is the 39th Earth Day. It’s now pretty big business, especially in the US, where a lot of companies are keen to strut their green stuff.
Real nappy love
When it comes to nappies, any new parent will testify that it’s a case of the quicker, cleaner and easier the better - three words not conventionally associated with the washable variety.
Green festivals – music to our ears
The much-loved British music festival hasn’t repaid the environment too kindly for its hospitality in the past. But the crowds may be turning a greener shade of unwashed.
Get paid to recycle
When we wrote yesterday about looking West for recycling inspiration, we weren’t anticipating crossing the Atlantic - only the Irish Sea.
Life after landfill: look West?
Defra today awarded Private Finance Initiative (PFI) credits to four waste management projects across the UK to help improve our country’s shameful landfill record.
The UK has one of the highest levels of landfill in Europe, with 60% of 35.5million tonnes of municipal waste being swept under the soil in 2006.
Defra hopes the PFI credits awarded [...]
