Environmental Campaigns

Evergreen Insurance services are running a fabulous competition in which you can help your favourite wildlife charity win £1000. Visit Evergreen Insurance Services online or at The CountryFile show (3rd-6th August) and they will be delighted to provide you with a quote for your insurance needs as well as enabling you to nominate your charity for the […]

If you’re concerned about the problem of plastic pollution, the damage it is doing to our oceans and sea life and want to cut down on the plastic you use in your home then the plastic challenge could be for you. The Plastic Challenge takes place throughout June and is being run by the Marine Conservation Society UK. Visit their website […]

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Some of the urban jungles across the globe are suffocating in bouts of dense smog and extremely high levels of toxic air pollution. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), air pollution is now a greater threat to health than Ebola or HIV and 80% […]

Many people and organisations throw educational books away as they think once they are out of date they are unusable. But ‘Book Aid For Africa’ a registered charity takes new, unwanted and second hand text and reference books and distributes them to people in Africa. As long as the books are in good condition and published within the last 15 years they […]

Taking care of the environment has become a priority for many communities. You don’t need to have bad drinking water or skies filled with pollution to understand the consequences of being bad stewards of the earth. It isn’t necessary to donate large amounts of money or time to make the environment better. You don’t even […]

So there have been whisperings that this black Friday malarkey is all just a marketing ploy by the big corporations to make you spend more money (shock horror) and in its place is slowly creeping in the term ‘Green Friday.’ Many people are beginning to realise that perhaps those super deals on offer are actually not […]

Did you know that in recent years cosmetic manufacturers have been adding microbeads to their products, and every year nearly 3 trillion of these microbeads spill into our rivers, lakes and oceans, representing a serious threat to our environment the very moment they are washed down the drain. Eco2greetings have created an infographic showing which countries use the […]

For years, British consumers have been expressing concern about the environment and the impact they have on it as consumers. So when the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall programme ‘Hugh’s War on Waste’ brought to light an issue that’s been clear in the industry for quite some time, it came as a shock to many of the viewing […]

In the latest attempt to reduce air pollution across London, the city’s Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced that London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) could be introduced as early as 2019. This will be a year earlier than previously anticipated, with the roll-out initially focused on inner London, before expanding to both the North […]

Did you know that peat bogs are the biggest storers of carbon in the UK and help keep emissions from the atmosphere? When peat is extracted from the ground it contributes to global warming. Did you also know that in the Thorne moors and Hatfield moors of Yorkshire there are 3,000 insect species and 800 flowering […]