Archive for ‘Environment’
Save the Cerrado
Cerrado, sounds like an exotic holiday destination, this is in fact a little known pristine ecosystem in Brazil, home to many endangered species as well as around 10,000 plant species, half of which are found nowhere else on earth. This little known habitat is under threat. Half of this beautiful ecosystem is already gone. Imagine [...]
Just 5 days left until Earth Hour!
Do you know where you’re going to be at 8:30 pm on Saturday March 26th? We hope you’ll be with a bunch of great people…with the lights out! It’s just five days left until WWF’s Earth Hour 2011, when people and places all over the world will switch off their lights for one hour to show [...]
New government scheme offers incentives for updating to renewable heating
Today the UK government announced a new programme of financial incentives that will reward businesses and individuals for upgrading their heating systems to use renewable resources. The £860 million Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme will support emerging heating technologies like biomass boilers (which burn wood pellets), solar thermal, ground and water source heat-pumps, on-site biogas, [...]
