Pollution from Your Heating
There comes a time of year when if you live in Britain the doors stay closed, the curtains are drawn and the heating is turned up. But the simple act of heating our home can also pollute the...
View ArticleSafety Concerns about Pylons and Phone Masts
For a long time now there has been concern raised over the safety of electricity pylons and mobile phone masts but until now there hasn’t been enough substantiated evidence to force a change. However...
View ArticleQuestionnaire: How Toxic is Your Hair?
There have been a number of reports in newspapers and magazines addressing the potentially hazardous substances commonly found in the ingredients of many hair care products. It’s certainly important...
View ArticlePollution: Understanding Food Labels
How much salt? Wrong kind of fat? Too high in sugar? Is it organic? We’ve all been there – staring at a food carton in the supermarket aisle, trying to work out what’s good for us, what might be...
View ArticleThe Poles in Peril: The Vanishing Arctic
Climate change is an expression with which most of us are now familiar. Stories of changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and vanishing habitats have been around for a number of years and...
View ArticleEco-friendly Schools: A Case Study
With more emphasis in recent years on pollution, recycling, energy use and other important environmental issues, children today are learning how to look after our planet from an early age. In fact,...
View ArticleHow Two Gardeners Went Totally Organic: a Case Study
Mr and Mrs Owen from Hereford are a lively couple of retirement age who have undertaken the enormous project of transforming four large fields of agricultural land into a beautiful hilltop garden....
View ArticleClimate Change and Pollution: How the Maldives Are Sinking
Picture this: pristine white beaches stretching as far as the eye can see, palm trees swaying gently in the breeze, the scent of coconut in the air and transparent water sparkling under an azure sky....
View ArticlePlanting a Woodland Area in School: A Case Study
Trees and the copses and woodland they make up are an essential part of our heritage and yet one which, if we’re not careful, would be all too easy to lose. Loss of Native Woodlands According to...
View ArticleInterview: How We’re Making Our School Greener
As greater importance is placed on the environment, more and more schools are educating children in a practical way by getting them actively involved in green initiatives. One such school is Brunswick...
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