Environment

Making your community more resilient in uncertain times
Rob Hopkins
ISBN 978-1-900322-97-3
£19.95
This book picks up on the 2008, best selling book The Transition Handbook. Drawing on the experience of one of the most fascinating experiments under way in the world. Rob has created this book through a collaborative process involving thousands of people.

Calling on Londoners who turn the capital green

Today The Conservation Foundation is launching its Green Corners Awards inviting all Londoners to join the campaign to make London one of the world's greenest capital cities. The search is now on to find the beautiful, unusual, unexpected, inspirational, gorgeous, delicious and witty green corners.

Leading indoor plant Company Leaf-it-At-Home confirms that plants clean indoor pollution, reduce stress and stimulate creativity.

A report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)[1] estimates that the indoor environment may be two to five times and in some cases as high as 100 times more polluted than the outdoor air. The likes of computers, wi-fi and electrical goods used in workplaces across the country give off by-products from their electrical energy and continued exposure can lead to physical symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, sore eyes and sore throats.

Are your healthy habits ruining the environment? We generally assume that what's good for us must be good for the environment, but often this isn't the case. As we strive to keep ourselves healthy we could actually be damaging the planet. Here's how you can take care of yourself and the environment too.