Now, there is another option to do every bit we can to recycle and re-use products and materials. Dorset Reclaim, who started in 1998, have been tirelessly working to encourage local people to re-use, recycle and reduce the amount of waste going to landfill. At Dorset Reclaim they offer a free collection service for most domestic items, and collect anything that helps to make a house into a home, from furniture,and electrical items to carpets and curtains, crockery and cutlery.

Dorset Reclaim have prevented 17,500 tonnes of waste going to landfill by helping to distribute good quality furniture, electrical and household goods to low income families. Items can be collected from the Dorset Reclaim warehouse or delivered for a small fee.

Dorset Reclaim is a registered charity project working throughout Dorset and East Hampshire areas. Buy donating unwanted furniture, household and electrical goods you are not only minimising your carbon footprint, helping the environment but there are many local families who will benefit from your unwanted items.

To help with the project or to donate any items click HEREor check out there depots in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorchester.

12,500 plastic bottle are currently sailing around the world in a bid to beat waste, one bottle at a time!

The sailing catamaran, Plastiki, is made up of 12,500 plastic bottles and a whole heap of other recycled and re-used materials to help bring awareness to everyone about the harmful waste degrading the health of our oceans and planet.

For marine wildlife, fish and mammals it is an ever-increasing worry that the ingestion of plastic or entanglement in plastic and waste is dwindling fish stocks and increasing the loss of life in the worlds seas and oceans.

Plastikiand her crew, are sailing the world in the hopes to reduce the usage of plastic bottles, plastic bags and such like materials while promoting the 4 R’s- Reduce, Reuse, Rethink and Recycle! Currently, Plastiki has been at sea for 2616 hours/109 days, covering 6944 nautical miles. The trip started in San Francisco and they are heading to Sydney, Australia.

The aim is to raise 12,500 pledges to help beat waste by the time Plastiki reaches Sydney, Australia. You too can join in and help beat waste by going to the site and making your pledge. Click HEREto pledge. Just think- every plastic bottle ever made still exists today!

BEATING WASTE ONE BOTTLE AT A TIME!

With the Bike 2 Work scheme there are now more reasons to embrace your two wheels for healthy and environmental benefits. Through the governments Green Transport Plan, it is possible for everyone to benefit by being able to save up to 50% on brand new bicycles and cycling equipment.

There are benefits for everyone joing the Bike 2 Work scheme. As an employer you can join the scheme to make savings on employers NI contributions (up to 12%, reduce your business carbon footprint and your company will be added to the Green Achiever Business Directory. Your staff will be healthier, fitter, have more energy and your car parks will be less congested.  As an employee there are the advantages of better health, becoming fitter, reducing your carbon footprint, saving money and gaining advice and help from selected bike shops.

There are many bike shops all over the country covering the scheme and willing to support everyone wanting to get on their bikes and ride! Whatever your size, ability and budget there is a bike to suit everyone.

Hundreds of thousands of workers all across the country commute to work in some way or another whether it be by their own car, car share, or public transport. By taking part in this new scheme will not only reduce everyone’s personal carbon footprint and save money but will help to reduce the overall carbon footprint of Britain.

The Bike 2 Work scheme website hosts a handy savings calculator that will estimate how much you can save using the scheme and a form to register your interest. Go now to the site to become a Green Achiever and find out more, click HERE

In a large scale reflection of the recent rise in popularity of grassroots environmental activities, Campaign against Climate Change, recognize that the only way in influence environmental change in Europe and the world, is to set a good example at home. Because of this they have initiated a call for Emergency Climate Action from the UK government.

-   10% cut in emissions by the end of 2010 – or within one year.

-   A million climate jobs – by the end of 2010 – or within one year -  through a GREEN ENERGY REVOLUTION  with massive investment in renewable energy, insulation programs, improved public transport etc… See more here.

-   Banning domestic flights – building a better train/coach network

-   55 mile an hour speed limit – ending the roads program, massive investment in public transport

-   End agrofuel use – and eliminate the demand for products associated with rainforest destruction.

Government information programme – massive campaign to inform the public of the scale of the climate threat – booklet in every home, regular TV info, etc..

If like Campaign against Climate Change you believe that the best way to influence the international community is through bold action at home in the UK, then you can put your support behind the EARLY DAY MOTION proposed by Colin Challen MP.

To help build momentum and to find out ways to lobby your local MP to sign EDM 189 find out more here.

Proud of their record for not taking on causes, their focus is purely and making environmental justice accessible to all. The Environmental Law Foundation’s network of specialist lawyers and consultants provide support, advice and guidance on all law green matters together with education, training, lectures, conferences, environmental publications and support for green policy expansion.

They appear to be doing some incredible work, check out their website at http://www.elflaw.org/site/

They have designed something called the ‘Eco-Princess’ line, which provides keyrings and other accessories that make the sound of a flushing loo! Bewildered? Let me explain.

If you have ever visited Japan you will know, well if you are a woman that is, that the gentile women-folk of Nippon do not like to be overheard when going to the loo in public, so it is their habit to flush the loo, during and then again, after. This obviously is a huge waste of water. Some upmarket establishments have installed a little device on the walls of the loo which you can press and it plays a flushing sound! So now, joy of joys the less well-healed can bring along their own.

So, if you are stuck for the ideal Christmas present for the woman who has everything, here is the answer!

For lots more click here
Visually and conceptually incredible! It makes you wonder,  if as a race, we can dream and create such amazing, natural structures, why are we killing ourselves trying to live in the urban concrete jungle???