Everyone at The Fold hopes you will come and celebrate the resurgence of our rich heritage in farming, growing, designing and making. Enjoy some of the best products and produce this area has to offer together with advice and inspiration to help live a more sustainable life! Brigit and the Big Green Bus are there too ! Open 10.00am to 4.00pm and entry is free. More →

The Living Room restaurant and bar will host Sustainable Fashion 2009 when some of the countries most talented eco-conscious designers, retailers and fashion/textile design students from UWE Faculty of Creative Arts will show their work at this innovative and original show. This show is all about the glamorous, affordable and alternative choices to high street clothing and accessories. Sustainability in fashion is about changing the way people think about clothing - about the longevity of the fashion we buy - about awareness that the industry itself perpetuates all sorts of environmental issues... More →

With the global population rapidly increasing, the scale of our global water consumption is having a dramatic impact around the world. There is a hidden cost to what we eat, drink and consume, from coffee to t-shirts, food to computers. We consume far more water to support our lifestyles than most of us imagine. Is it time we start thinking about our virtual water footprint? The Royal Geographical Society are hosting 'Importing Goods - Exporting Drought' More →

A year ago FSC Friday saw a host of countrywide events promoting the need to buy timber and timber-based products from responsibly managed forests. For the first time this year, FSC Friday – the 25th September – sees the idea going international, with such far-flung countries as Germany, Australia, Russia and India asking everyone to consider the importance of the world’s forests and to look out for the FSC logo on their wood and paper purchases. More →

Morsbag enthusiast Sazzie has bagged a slot on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London, and will be using her hour to promote the eco benefits of re-usable shopping bags! She will be sewing bags with her hand-powered sewing machine and throwing them out to the crowd. Other Morsbag pod members will be supporting her, handing out free hand-made morsbags. Never heard of morsbags? Read all about them here... More →

Pupils from Blaenhonddan Primary School in Neath are leading the way in changing the way children travel to school. More than 80 pupils have been taking to their bikes to celebrate a new term with their Sustrans Bike It Officer, Louise Powell. Sustrans, the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity, is calling for an expansion of the Bike It project throughout Wales, to build on the 3 Officers currently working there. More →

The Marine Stewardship Council invites the World to Lunch! They are asking you to choose MSC-certified seafood for your lunch on 30th September 2009 and help maintain our oceans teeming with life and safeguard seafood supplies for this and future generations. Be part of the solution to overfishing, the second biggest environmental problem of our times after global warming. More →