Copper now sells for somewhere between £4000 a tonne and £5000 a tonne depending on where you look. That’s why it’s being stolen from telephone exchanges, from electricity stations and
Bronwen Jameson and Paul Richardson from Knowaste The smell wasn’t very noticeable until I went into the building. Then it hit me like a wall. I remember from visiting
We travelled up to Arnos Grove – an area of London I’d never been to before. My companion was Melinda Watson, who has set up the E-Waste Campaign with me.
We walked over the mountains from Italy into Slovenia. At the top the view was blue – we could see mountain ridges into the distance. No-one else was there. We
I got a very encouraging email this week. It was from Louise Piper, director of Haller – an organisation I helped to set up nearly 10 years ago. As follows:
I first got involved in the debate about disposable nappies vs re-usables in the early 1990s. The comparisons were being made in eco-labelling research and I was sitting on the
I’ve already got one gold crown and it looks like I’m due for some more. My worry is that I don’t think they’re the best environmental option – I’m actually
They’ve planted corn on the cob outside the police station. They’re lettuces in rose beds. And tomatoes on waste land. There’s even vegetables planted by school children in the graveyard. Incredible
My London flat must be the most rigorously scrutinised property on the planet – in terms of its eco-performance. I’ve spent the last few months researching and specifying what eco-renovations
When Ecobuild started 5 years ago less than 200 people attended. This year they were expecting 50,000 but over 80,000 had registered before the event had even started. I’m not
