Welcome to The Big Green Idea

We are a dynamic new charity dedicated to showing people how sustainable living can be easy, healthy, inexpensive and fun. Read more about why we set up the BGI here →

Bus door

We aim to do this in an accessible and hands-on way - using our specially adapted eco-bus which is now ready to take bookings for 2009!

A HUGE thank you to everyone who made a donation to the BGI this month via the Big Give website. We haven’t received the final tally yet, but believe it to be in excess of £12,000.

The Big Green Idea would like to thank its friends and sponsors.

RSPB BIG SCHOOLS’ BIRDWATCH - 19th to 30th January, 2009
The Big Schools' Birdwatch is a free activity for schools and youth groups (brownies, scouts etc) throughout the UK, which is run every year in January and February by the RSPB. By observing the birds that visit your school grounds you will be helping them monitor UK bird numbers. In 2008, over 45,000 UK school children stuck black paper with eye-slits on classroom windows, put up bird posters, borrowed binoculars, made bird feeders out of old plastic bottles, and told them about which birds they spotted in their school grounds. More →
Micro-Hydro continues to prosper despite the Credit Crunch
Hydroelectricity accounts for half of the renewable energy produced in this country. Yet, in all of the publicity surrounding climate change, it is wind and offshore renewables that are highlighted. Hydroelectricity never gets a mention. Yet there is an untapped potential for hydroelectricity that exists almost in every river in this country which is being overlooked by the government and potential investors. That untapped potential drove the early stages of the industrial revolution and the infrastructure is still there. More →
International Small Wind conference comes to the UK
In 2009 the UK will play host to BRE and BWEA's inaugural international conference, for a technology which is seeing unprecedented market growth the world over. Two days of seminars, workshops, demonstrations, educational sessions and networking opportunities will bring all constituents of the global sector together with focus given to renewable energy policy, international markets, technology awareness, technical research, and educational issues. More →
The Big Green Bus at the Bradford-on-Avon Green Fair!
It's finally happened! The Big Green Bus hit the road with a weekend date in Bradford-on-Avon. Pupils and teachers from Fitzmaurice School enjoyed an exclusive day on the bus on Friday, then it was all hands on deck (top deck or bottom, it didn't matter !) as the first Big Bradford Green Fair opened its doors to the public and Brigit and her volunteer team welcomed the world... More →