Event, Food & sustainable production, Health, Recycling, textiles

Sign Up Today – The Big Plastic Count

All you have to do is count the plastic you throw away for one week in March and then submit your results at the end. Sign up today Join The Big Plastic Count Sign up to today to get your free counting pack People power has worked before - the plastic bag charge wouldn’t have… Continue reading Sign Up Today – The Big Plastic Count

Cycling and green transport, general, Health, special meetings, textiles

We’re adding new pages

During the next few months we’ll be adding more pages to our website, to support & promoted new projects happening in and around Telford, including Plastic Free, Pesticide Free Awareness and new Travel & Transport pages.#transitiontogether

energy, Housing and design, textiles

Cost-effective Passivhaus

Passivhaus often requires additional costs for materials, labour and design and certification but this uplift is usually now less than 8%, when factoring in other savings through reduced heating equipment need and economies of scale. This uplift is more than repaid through long-term energy bill savings and whole life costs. In the face of escalating… Continue reading Cost-effective Passivhaus

energy, Event, Food & sustainable production, general, Health, Recycling, textiles

Yuck – Lets talk about Black Friday

The UK has ‘adopted' Black Friday with vigour, like most trends, often consumer trends, that swap from America to the UK, or back. Or anywhere in the world, social media (which can be a fantastic tool) and the ‘need for greed’ has led us to a place where many now avoid what is supposed to… Continue reading Yuck – Lets talk about Black Friday

Cycling and green transport, energy, Food & sustainable production, general, Health, Recycling, textiles

Can we, should we, buy less stuff?

A short question that is not easy to answer. Here I discuss if, and how, we can reduce the amount of ‘stuff’ we buy and consume and argue that we should campaign to promote a better quality of life. This is an EXERPT FROM CARBON CHOICES CLICK to read the full blog. It is relatively… Continue reading Can we, should we, buy less stuff?