Are we ‘falling or rolling towards a GREEN age?’ By @MarIntroini

Being GREEN is not just another fashion trend made up of recycling, eating ecological food or the use of solar panels, as many skeptics would argue. Being green means awareness of the negative impact of relentless climate change that needs us as individual to act to make a real difference. If not, every attempt is reduced to […]

CONSERVATION, CULTURE, COMMERCE AND CRIME – Tackling Ivory Trade @UoPBusiness

This Hot Topic is aimed at anyone with an interest in the law and economics of the illegal wildlife trade and specifically the trade in elephant ivory. The British Government is under pressure to ban the sales of all ivory, including ivory antiques but what effect will this really have on the current declining elephant […]

Hextio – Air Purification X10 – Radic8 & The next generation of indoor air

Introducing: Hextio – Air Purification x 10 While you can read below for more details, they have also shared this awesome video. It explains what we all want explaining. Hextio – click to watch and listen to what it is, does and more, straight from one of the brains behind the product – Richard Greenwood […]

@MarIntroini : The Resilient Cities System. That is #Sustainable & #Green #Cities

I would like to take this opportunity to once again thank the great @MarIntroini  for writing another guest post for us. The piece was also posted here on Mar’s blog. Resilience seems to be just another fashion word that defines the need of renewed architecture projects and technology systems. However resilience is a holistic concept that demands […]

Guest post : The Rise & Fall of Wind Energy in Spain : By @MarIntroini

Disclaimer, these are the views and opinions of @MarIntroini a member of the forum and these do not represent the views of the forum as whole. Spain is the 5th world wind energy exporter country and 3rd in Europe; however, the successful reality of 2009 is absolutely different from now. Experts hesitate that this success could […]

A cut above the rest! Inside ‘Ecohair & Beauty’ an eco-hairdressing project!

Since launching a year ago, word is spreading in hairdressing circles about Eco hair and Beauty a pioneering ‘eco’ hairdressing initiative which follows on from the earlier Green Salon Makeover project. Ecohair and Beauty is being led by a team from Southampton Business School, University of Southampton and is funded by the Economic Social and […]

Who are Southampton Climate Conversations ( @cchangesoton ), What do they do & how to get involved.

Climate Conversations is a Southampton-based network of people who want to talk about global and local environmental change and respond through positive action. We urgently need a step change in the discourse around climate change and believe that such a change must be generated by community action. Our aim is to encourage conversations about sustainability […]

Sci-Fi to Sci-Fact: Solar Impulse 2

In a surprising turn of events, we find ourselves in a position whereby we can follow two brave, pioneering, inspiring and revolutionary individuals as they fly across the world using nothing but solar energy. We wish you the best of luck and are amazed by the work you have done so far and wait eagerly to see […]

How Green is the UK’s Future?

Boom! I’ll start with the great news, our brothers, sisters and fellow green/sustainability friends have just done what seemed a distant dream a few years ago. Solar just produced more energy than coal for the whole month of April. This is really a great achievements and I pass on all the complements I can muster, […]

‘Who are @Greenhampshire & Where did they come from?’

Volunteers can really make things happen.  Volunteers can change lives and can change landscapes. Volunteering is giving yourself the opportunity to achieve something with your life that is not wrapped up in the world of work, the world of money and the world of worry.  Giving yourself the chance to stop the unceasing run of […]