Windtrap

"We sell a range of products which can help you save energy and make your home more eco-friendly."

http://www.windtrap.co.uk/

Freecycle

"Welcome! The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,390 groups with 5,197,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills. Each local group is moderated by a local volunteer (them's good people)."

http://www.freecycle.org/

eCyclebin

"Why throw away perfectly good and usable items when there is somebody out there who would be very grateful to receive them? In our fast moving society we dispose of a huge number of items that end up either incinerated or in land fill sites. Many of these items could have a new lease of life in the right hands. "

http://www.ecyclebin.com/

The Forest of Dreams

THE FOREST OF DREAMS LTD is an ecological charity set up to purchase, manage and preserve in perpetuity, identified areas of land ideally suited to being left largely wild as a place of sanctuary for wildlife and climax biodiversity- with a human presence in the form of educational facilities emphasizing sacred traditions with a respect for the earth as wellsprings of understandings to draw from and with which to create a culture of sustainability."

http://www.forestofdreams.org.uk/

Stick-on solar panels help make an eco home a realistic goal

"... a company called Lumeta has developed a "peel and stick" design that should be much cheaper and easier to apply than the standard rack-mounted solar panel design of old."

http://www.popgadget.net/2008/05/stickon_solar_p.php

Plant yourself in London and walk in the treetops

"The garden gnomes at London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, have built a walkway through the trees nearly 60 feet off the ground. "

http://www.popgadget.net/2008/05/greentech_plant_1.php


"The walkway is also structurally extraordinary. The walkway design, carried out in steel, is said to be based on the Fibonacci number sequence. (Starting with 1, each new number in the sequence is the sum of the two before it: 2, 3, 5,8,13.....)"

"The ratio provides a perfectly proportioned growth pattern. This sequence is used for the spacing of the connection points for the diagonals of the walkway trusses. The 12m long trusses are connected to circular nodes which are in turn supported by pylons. It provides a seemingly random, natural appearance that in fact comes from a clear underlying geometry."

LED Street Lights are Coming

"Of course, LED are still kind of expensive, so there's a capital cost. But once they are in place, their operating costs are lower and they can last for a very long time. Another benefit is that you can direct light much more easily, so you can avoid sending light in all directions (people with a street light across the street from their bedroom window will understand...)."

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/05/led-street-lights-lamps-germany.php

Recycled Paper and Recycled Stationery

"The Green Stationery Company is the UK's premier recycled paper and green office products supplier. We select products that are environmentally benign or have environmental advantages over the standard office products."

http://www.greenstat.co.uk/storefront/net_junction_index.asp

Remarkable Pencils

"Welcome to our Remarkable world, where we recycle UK waste and make it into exciting, fun & innovative products..."

http://www.remarkable.co.uk/

Solar without the Panels

"Investors and utilities intent on building solar power plants are increasingly turning to solar thermal power, a comparatively low-tech alternative to photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity. This month, in the latest in a string of recent deals, Spanish solar-plant developer Abengoa Solar and Phoenix-based utility Arizona Public Service announced a 280-megawatt solar thermal project in Arizona. By contrast, the world's largest installations of photovoltaics generate only 20 megawatts of power."

http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?ch=specialsections&sc=solar&id=20356&a=

Mini Wind & Solar Generator

"Never be without power for your gadgets with this portable wind & solar generator system. This simple device can store 1200mAh of electricity, rechargeable by wind or solar power. The wind mini-generator is the core of the system, housing the battery and the simple windmill. Strap it to your handlebars or your own body via the optional attachments."

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/04/12/hymini/

Native Tree Shop

"Welcome to the Woodland Trusts native tree shop, supplying a range of native trees and shrubs in partnership with Alba Trees.This shop aims to help make native tree's easily available for gardeners."

http://www.native-tree-shop.com/

Laptop & Notebook Repairing, Upgrading and Modding Guides: by Manufacturers

"Are you looking for do-it-yourself instructions about laptop or notebook repair? Here are disassembly manuals, pictures and videos ordered by manufacturer."

http://repair4laptop.org/notebook.html

You Walk Wrong

“It took 4 million years to develop our unique human foot and our consequent distinctive form of gait, a remarkable feat of bioengineering. Yet, in only a few thousand years, and with one carelessly designed instrument, our shoes, we have warped the pure anatomical form of human gait, obstructing its engineering efficiency, afflicting it with strains and stresses and denying it its natural grace of form and ease of movement head to foot."

http://nymag.com/health/features/46213/

How the politics of parking can defile a city

"The city faced a common problem: Parking was free, but the few merchants who were still in business complained that it was inadequate. The people who worked in the stores took most of the spots, leaving customers to drive around searching for one – or just staying away. Meanwhile, the city had a vision of a revitalized downtown but no money to repair sidewalks, plant trees, increase security or take any of the other steps necessary to attract people.

Shoup recommended charging enough for parking to maintain an 85 per cent occupancy rate and using the money shoppers dropped in the meters to improve the neighbourhood. The revenue couldn't go into the city's general coffers; it had to be spent on the streets.

Once that happened, the business community started to invest, too – even sandblasting and renovating derelict buildings – and soon the shop owners, who had initially opposed meters, wanted to charge for parking until midnight. They wanted the money for the improvements, but they also discovered that their fears about scaring away customers were unfounded – anyone who really wanted to shop or eat in the area was willing to invest a few quarters.

As the area became more popular, the meters raised more money for more improvements, which increased the popularity. And so on. The city now collects one million dollars a year to pay for upkeep that includes sweeping the sidewalks nightly and steam-cleaning them twice a month."

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ideas/article/424158

EcoTravelling

"EcoTravelling contains over 80 articles written by our experts who continually update and add new content."

http://www.ecotravelling.co.uk/

Giant Kites save Cargo Ships 20% on their fuel

"A cargo ship has just completed the first trans-Atlantic trip using kites to help propel it. The giant kite helped save 20% of the ships energy, which will the shipping company up to $2,000 a day in fuel costs once an even bigger kite is hooked up on the next trip."

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/03/20/giant-kites-save-cargo-ships-20-on-their-fuel/

To escape city life, embrace it

"If 16 million New Yorkers moved to the countryside to escape from city life, the devastation would be terrible. But what if the way to improve life is not to move the people to the countryside but, in a way, to move the countryside to the city? That is part of the idea behind the happy city and livable streets movement."

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/02/to-escape-city.html