A bit of a weird one but we’ve opened up an old, long closed chimney recently and now have bags and bags of old soot. At the moment, it’s earmarked as filler where we’re levelling up a drastically sloped bit of the garden – all the rubble and stuff we’re generating at the moment will go in there as misc filler – but I wonder if there is anything else

Microsoft announced on its blog recently that Seattle City Light will be the first utility to offer customers the ability to monitor their energy consumption with the Hohm application. Customers who sign up for the service will receive automatic data feeds on their energy use

Eco Factor: Catamaran superyacht made from environmentally responsible materials.
Dutch-based design studio René van der Velden Yacht Design has introduced a new concept in luxury catamarans that will blur the gap between sustainability and luxury with a high comfort and low drag platform.
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The winner of the competition to be the Green Voice of the UK is a green blogger, Piper Terrett. She beat out 100 other
In the latest issue of InStyle magazine, Reese Witherspoon opens up on her life outside of the Hollywood spotlight — saying that her and boyfriend Jake Gyllenhaal

Weilburg, a medieval city not too far from Frankfurt, has announced plans

Eco Factor: Gyroscope-equipped wheel system to teach kids their first green lesson.
The future demands more use of bikes and other pedal and renewable energy powered vehicles. While learning to bike wasn’t easy for us all and we all would be having some painful memories of that time, a company claims to have reinvented the front wheel of a bike that automates the learning process and helps kids learn their first green lesson in just an hour.
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If you want to learn where the future is for green business and entrepreneurs, here’s the place. It’s a speed lecture by 8 green leaders on the direction of their industry. Speed means that each one gets 8 minutes for their slide