London Goes Green This Spring

March 21, 2010 | By Robbie In environment | Comments(0)

This April the fantastic UK AWARE exhibition will be taking place at London Olympia. UK AWARE is the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition, which invites normal people to come together, with a view to making a difference to climate change.

As a largely social enterprise UK AWARE unites businesses, organisations and individuals and gives them a forum to share advice on living and working more sustainably, without having to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort.

Various products and services are exhibited over the 2 day event – all of which showcase ways to help to live a greener lifestyle. Areas covered include all sorts, from sustainable fashion and beauty to green motor-vehicles. And it isn’t just small, independent businesses choosing to take advantage of this eco-opportunity. More established companies and charities, including BT and Actionaid, are also on hand to advise the 15,000 visitors expected to attend the event.

This year visitors will be treated to all manner of ingenious innovations and developments, including Hubcap Creatures (sculptures made from recycled hubcaps), Bubblehouse Worms (wormfarms that ‘promote global worming’), Twinkes (futuristic light electric/pedal powered mobiles) and many more.

UK AWARE is now in its third year and, as the UK’s only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition it has thrived where all others have failed. As such it attracts both visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. So the issue they faced was where to put them all…

UK AWARE are the first to admit that hotels are notoriously bad for the environment but the Campaign Against Climate Change also bemoans the situation. In 2007 they reported that hotels were responsible for around 2% of the UK’s carbon emissions. Just thinking about the amount of energy wasted on air conditioning, in hotel kitchens and thanks to the enormous amounts of laundry a hotel gets through – is enough to make your eyes water.

Many hotel chains are trying to rectify things but progress is relatively slow. So the organisers of UK AWARE have put forward an alternative solution for out-of-towners who are keen to attend the event, Crashpadding. They suggest that people visit Crashpadder.com to find accommodation that is not only eco-friendly but budget-friendly too.

The basic premise of Crashpadder – along with other sites like it – is that it is preferable to stay with a friendly local in their spare room than to book a bed in an uncomfortable hostel or an over-priced, environmentally unsound hotel.

The science behind it is pretty simple, while hotels have to maintain rooms and services that are often left unoccupied and wasted, people’s homes are always in use and as such it makes very little difference to the environment to pop an extra person under the same roof.

The principle of opening your home to strangers in the spirit of good will and collaboration obviously ties in with the principles of UK AWARE. Both are hoping to make the world a better and friendlier place, and allow us to move through it in as positive a way as we possibly can.

To find out more about the UK AWARE event, arrange tickets or even book an exhibition slot for your business or organisation why not visit the UK AWARE website, www.ukaware.com.

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Let eBay Help You “Green” Your Home

March 20, 2010 | By Robbie In recycle | Comments(0)

Let eBay Help You “Green” Your Home
By Harriet Shugarman
“One person’s garbage is another person’s treasures,” or so the saying goes! If recycling and reusing someone’s “gently” used products is something that tweaks your interest, you might want to check out eBay’s new green shopping hub. According to eBay the site highlights: “pre-owned, sustainably-made and resource-saving products, handpicked from eBay.com listings.” Did you know that a year ago, eBay “opened up” their eBay Green Team, from an internal company only initiative, to a program targeted at all of the millions of eBay buyers and sellers?

The program gives eBay users the opportunity to purchase used products in addition to new ones advertised on their site. This concept isn’t new; in fact you can get a lot of “free stuff” on the web or from places and stores in your own neighborhood. Some of the more well know on line organizations that offer “free stuff” for you to take or trade include “Freecycle” and Craig’s list, both of which provide listings of products people no longer need, but feel someone else will value!

A twist in 2010 on the eBay site is that eBay has teamed up with a company called Cooler, Inc in an attempt to showcase for their shoppers the environmental impact of their purchasing decisions. Not only will you be able to find out how much you are reducing your carbon foot print by “purchasing” a gently used product instead of a new one, you will also have the opportunity to buy new products through the Cooler website, from reputable and well know retailers, and have Coolers “offset” your purchase at the same time! The new program is just in the “launch stage.” Look for eBay Green Team ads in April in many of the Hearst family magazines.

It is important to remember that every purchase you make has implications for our environment!

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Keeping Our Planet Healthy Through Recycling

March 19, 2010 | By Robbie In recycle | Comments(0)

The warnings are all clear and well-known; global warming, overflowing landfills, acid rain, are just a few of the aftereffects of our misuse to mother earth. In many cases we are not recycling because it is the cool or popular thing to do, actually we recycle because it is a necessity for commerce and replenishment of our planet.

When you hear the term recycling come up, you should try and think of the whole idea of – Reduce –Reuse — Recycle

Common sense says that if you don’t need it, don’t buy it. If it is a must, then get something that can be recycled later on. What I have mentioned are all concepts that you have heard before, yet there are plenty of people that do not pay attention or realize the bigger picture surrounding their daily lives. It is not necessary to put recycling logos or signs everywhere to let you know what is or isn’t recyclable, or where you should recycle. It takes a little initiative and slight brain power to figure out what you are doing and the after effects that will take place. Pay attention to the all the aluminum cans and material that are scattered along the medians on roadways or around your neighborhood sidewalks.

In regards to the bigger picture there are signs such as the snow caps melting that have been visible for years, but are now just an outline as far as we can see. Another sign of global warming was portrayed in Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, which depicted that many cities miles inland would be looking at water front property one day soon without having to move.

Up to this point we have been careless with the way are treating our ecosystem and now is the time to revolutionize. The days of us leaving our trash behind to rot on our soil are over because we are getting full and have to learn to use less material and more importantly learn to find a way to reuse more of those old goods.

If you have a monthly bill statement many companies allow you to opt-in for paperless billing where they can email you the bill electronically saving millions of paper mailings in the process. Use linen napkins that can be washed and reused instead of paper based napkins. These are a few ideas that can go a long way in helping to reduce waste. If you would like to find out more about scrap metal recycling you can always check out RmlMetals.com for more information. Just remember, be mindful of what you do and if we all do our part, we will make a big difference for the benefit of everyone’s future.

Mark Laniak has been in the scrap metal recycling business for several years and is the Operator of RML Metals Recycling Company. Visit http://www.rmlmetals.com for more tips, articles, and insight on recycling, waste management, and the environment.
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