Environment Times is raising money for the homeless by creating a 'virtual ecohouse' in return for donations from companies who supplied their 'virtual products' to help build the house. The generous response has been so successful that the home has instead grown into a housing estate!
Click on the live links in the listing of businesses or organisations. That way you can see more details on what they provide.
We would to thank the following companies for their generosity:
Naturesave Insurance for homes, business, charities and community groups
Milestone Design for making their green kitchens of total recycled content
ASL for their solar monitoring system
Ibstock for their bricks
RainWater Harvesting for their Rain Director System
Windhager for their biomass boiler
Silentnight for their double bed
LED Eco Lights for providing the lighting
Biotecture for their living wall
MPA - The Concrete Centre for their sustainable concrete
Hewitech for their stormwater management
Golder Associates for their contaminated land management
Hanovia for their UV water disinfection system
Wienerberger for their slate-looking tile made from clay
Marshalls for their sustainable paving and landscaping
Kingspan Klargester for their specialist wastewater management
PK Safety for their safety boots for a previously homeless man in new job as a builder
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'Treading water' on raw sewage in rivers as last year's overflow stats revealed
Pollution
Latest sewage statistics show water companies in England and Wales are treading water on sewage pollution and the Government's Defra's plan just threatens more stagnation, state The Rivers Trust as they update their popular online maps to display how Combined Sewage Overflows (CSOs) are performing with raw sewage releases into your local waterways.
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Banks have blind spot about value of biodiversity coalition of economists and ecologists reveal
Business
Central banks have a blind spot about biodiversity. This means the millions being spent on preventing climate change may actually be damaging the environment, jeopardising global financial stability and endangering life on earth. This is one of the conclusions of the biggest study of its kind, led by an unusual partnership of economists and ecologists from 28 organisations belonging to the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights, Research and Exchange (INSPIRE), and including representatives from 25 central banks and supervisors affiliated to the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS).
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Amazon buys fully-electric 37-tonne lorries to join its 1,000 electric van fleet
Transport
Amazon has invested in five new electric HGVs for the first time in the UK and Europe, replacing diesel HGVS for transporting customer packages from Amazon's fulfilment centres in Tilbury and Milton Keynes, and they'll soon be using faster 360kW charging points at the two sites.
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Sewage bugs convert Tata Steel's Port Talbot gas emissions into industry raw materials
Resource & 'Waste'
Super bugs in sewage are helping to convert steelmaking emissions into sustainable raw materials for other industries, a new project led by the University of South Wales has discovered.
