Environment News

THE hunt is on to find more wardens to nurture the Island’s ponds, thanks to funding from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.

AN ISLAND beauty-spot plagued by litter problems is to benefit from a beach clean organised by campaign group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) on Saturday.

ROBBY RECOMMENDS
HELLO folks and welcome to my second missive on all things green and futuristic.
Somewhere between 80 or 90 per cent of any festival’s carbon footprint is caused by vehicle travel to and from the festival, so a big focus for us this year is to get people onto buses, coaches and trains, leaving their cars at home.

THE benefits of investment in renewable energy generation for both domestic and commercial users are set to improve dramatically, following February’s government announcement.

www.energysavingtrust.org.uk
THE Energy Saving Trust is the UK’s leading organisation set up to address the damaging effects of climate change by helping everybody to cut carbon dioxide emissions — the main greenhouse gas causing climate change — from their homes

ISLAND inventor Frank Webb has come up with an invention called Fuel Mizer.

ROBBY RECOMMENDS
Morning ladies and gents!
Welcome to the first Robby Recommends, a new monthly column intended to take a sideways and hopefully entertaining look at how we’re all tacking climate change and what I think could work in 2010 and beyond.

www.1010uk.org
10:10 is a project uniting every sector of British society behind one simple idea: that by working together, we can achieve a ten per cent cut in the UK’s carbon emissions in 2010.

A RYDE-based renewable energy company has secured one of the UK’s largest heat pump installations.

A SIMPLE way of helping the environment and charities while clearing clutter is to recycle old clothes, blankets and curtains via a textile bank.

THE IW Council has spent just over £70,000 on a fleet of six, eco-friendly cars.

A campaign is being run by national organisation Recycle Now to get more people to recycle their broken or unwanted electrical equipment.

AN ECO-friendly power plant fuelled by crops could soon be built at Calbourne, if it is given the green light by planners.

A £10 MILLION eco-fund will help an Island community’s ecological aspirations.
Chale Green is to become much greener thanks to a £500,000 slice of the government’s Low Carbon Communities Challenge Fund.

ISLAND meditation teacher Will Trend has entered a competition to save the planet and win $25 million.