Day: 20 September 2010

London lagging behind on insulation

Households in London are the worst in Britain for installing insulation and lagging, new figures have revealed.

Green light for 800 brownfield homes

A scheme to build 800 new homes on a Northampton brownfield site has been given the green light by the local planning authority.

Big clean-up for Galway’s beaches

Galway residents braved the wind and rain last weekend to make a real difference to their local environment.

‘Polluters must pay’ says South Africa

Organisations found to be contaminating land in South Africa will be 'pursued without fear', the government has announced.

Happy birthday Dublinbikes

Dublin's much-praised public bike hire scheme - Dublinbikes - celebrated a successful first year last week.

Welsh pledge national support to tackle forest destruction

An area of African tropical forest the size of Wales is set to be safeguarded, thanks to an army of Welsh environmentalists and volunteers.

Whitbread aims to be premier low carbon hotelier

Budget hotel chain Premier Inn is close to completing what it hopes will become a template for its future green builds.

Greens back Dublin bus review as first phase completed

Plans to review routes and times of Dublin buses have been backed by Greens who have also called for it to be used to attract more people on to the system.

Sainsbury’s faces legal action over packaging

A local authority has launched legal action over what it claims is a supermarket's over use of packaging on a high end meat product.

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