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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The use of hydrogen as a fuel for motor vehicles is something that has been discussed in one form or another for just about as long as motor vehicles have existed. The gasoline-driven internal combustion engine has exerted its dominance in the marketplace over time, and as a consequence it will prove difficult to persuade its users to look elsewhere for a method of powering their vehicles. It may become all the more difficult if those of us with an interest in changing the way that we drive cannot come to some coherent consensus on the way forward for motor vehicles. At the moment there are many competing methods which all have their advocates – but it is hard to nail down one specific alternative which has greater backing than all the others. 

There are, perhaps two types of vehicle which have more currency in the modern market than most of the others, at least in terms of publicity. Firstly, we have the hybrid fuel vehicles which benefit from (usually) electricity alongside an internal combustion engine, which allows the driver to disengage the engine when possible in order to save money and emissions. There is also the hydrogen fuel cell, which is viewed by some as superior to the hybrid car due to the greater amount of energy it produces, and the fact that it is even cleaner. Honda is certainly backing the hydrogen cell, having already had a great deal of interest in their FCX Clarity, and there are others keen to follow them. But currently there is some controversy over the feasibility of hydrogen fuel cells. 

In 2003, then-President George W Bush stated a goal to have hydrogen powered cars on America’s roads in significant numbers by the end of the next decade. He pledged a governmental donation of $1.2 billion to make it happen. The decision made a lot of sense – not only would hydrogen-powered cars make the environment cleaner and safer, they would also allow America and other countries to reduce their dependence on foreign oil. In each car would be a miniature power plant, capable of driving an electricity supply when not on the road, so that electrical appliances could be run safely and cleanly outdoors. 

The problem seems to be with the mass production of hydrogen fuel cells. No-one has yet been able to harness the technology in such a way as to make it in any sense practical. With the fact that to make hydrogen cars currently depend on burning natural gas to make it in any way cost-effective, it is not as beneficial for the environment as it seems, and with hybrid technology currently much further advanced than hydrogen, many critics are making it clear now that they simply do not feel there is much of a future in researching and developing hydrogen cars when there is a potentially superior alternative in existence. Continuing research on hydrogen fuel does make sense – as clean hydrogen in a mass-produced setting would be a boon to the environment. But right now, it has its critics.

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