National interest in the city of Norwich may have ebbed away since Alan Partridge notoriously forced viewers to consider the implications of its city centre pedestrianization scheme some years ago, but the county capital has been named the country’s greenest community for the second year running by the online listings company Localife.co.uk.
Whilst there may still [...]

The head of Britain’s top organic association said recently that demand for organic food has not waned despite food price inflation, due to a loyal consumer base and an environmentally friendly reputation.
Though a selection of consumers worst hit by rising food prices will have to discontinue their organic buying, it will not significantly affect the [...]

According to German Professor Wolfgang Feist’s theory of PassivHaus Britain will need to pay attention to three key rise in oil prices of more than £64 in the next two years.
The aim of the PassivHaus plan is to not only reduce each homes heat-waste and emissions but also to save its tenants money. By reducing [...]

Nano technology “kitchen towel” may become the greener alternative to bombs and detergent as a remedy for oil spills as researchers invent the super-absorbent membrane.
The “kitchen towel” is a wafer-thin sheet made from nanowires and acts as a kind of blotting paper which can absorb oils and other impurities. The sheet itself can absorb up [...]

A study by the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group has shown that organic milk is significantly more beneficial than the more popular non-organic milk we find on the shelves of our major supermarkets.
The study reveals that milk from conventional dairy farm cows is much lower in important anti-oxidants and vitamins than milk produced by cows which [...]

A struggle that first surfaced nineteen years ago, between the tribal Indians of Brazil’s Xingu region and a government initiated hydroelectric program, reemerged this week.
In a fiercely dissident display of strength, a coalition of indigenous leaders assembled in the Amazonian city of Altimara, bare chested and wielding machetes, to protest plans to erect a hydroelectric [...]

On questioning a friend about her mud stained trousers she replied that she had they had spent the day working on an allotment on the outskirts of town. The first thing that came to mind were glimpses through train windows of dog-on-a-string types drinking special brew, circled around compost heaps and bonfires by the railway [...]

In the Amazonian city of Altamira, a large group of indigenous leaders gathered this week, in order to join forces in a protest against plans to build a hydroelectric dam on a tributary of the Amazon.
In order to build the immense Belo Monte dam on the Xingu river, large areas of rainforest are due to [...]

A new study undertaken by the European Commission and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives has found a direct link between bleaching coral reefs and the ultra violet (UV) filters found in sunscreens and other skin care products. The report reckons that around 10 percent of the world’s reefs are at risk of bleaching [...]

Nowadays, most consumers spare a thought for the life and times of the animal which they choose to eat. Cheap pasties, frozen sausage rolls, microwavable burgers; these are all items that many consumers may wish to be assured of before purchase. A growing preference for organic meat has been credited as a key factor in [...]