CitiPark in Leeds is giving a 20p discount on carparking for each plastic bottle that’s recycled. If you want to park for a hour (£3) you can bring 15 bottles and you’ll get your parking free! The bottles need to be at least 500ml and should be ha...

Scottish Power are leaving coal powered energy generation behind as they move towards renewable energy. British power producer Drax, has acquired a group of Scottish power plants owned by Spanish developers Iberdrola. The plants comprise of hydro,...

EMEX 2018 21-22 NOVEMBER EXCEL, LONDON EMEX is the meeting place for the energy saving supply chain. EMEX establishes and builds partnerships between business, third party intermediaries, training suppliers, government and public bodies to acceler...

Mandatory eco-labelling would change how we produce and purchase food, says Joseph Poore, Research Scientists at the University of Oxford, writing in the Guardian. In his article Poore uses the example of eco-labelling on appliances to underline h...

The IoT (Internet of Things), big data and AI are influencing just about every industry on the planet, and the environmental sector is no exception. Conservation drones are being deployed to monitor endangered species. Animals such as the Amazonia...

The next three months will place global leaders in the spotlight, as the world looks to them to take action on climate change. The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a special report this week, centred on the importance...

Construction company Willmott Dixon have teamed up with Ekso Bionics to trial a new high-tech vest, which gives workers extra strength when heavy lifting. The EksoVest is an upper body exoskeleton which supports a construction worker’s arms, using...

The UK government have announced (1st October) a package of reforms to support their delivery of 300,000 homes a year by 2020. The proposal to deliver this ambitious programme of house building includes speeding up the planning process and making ...

With students returning to university there has been a lot in the news about the wellbeing of students, but what about the staff? 700 employees at the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) are about to begin a pilot sustainability and wellbeing programme...

Future health and safety professionals will benefit from a new student membership category, launched by IOSH this month. The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) says the new category will enable it to “develop and improve” the sup...