Newsletter Library - Green Initiatives

Emily Best runs Bochica, a clothes company providing affordable, ethical and fairtrade clothing. Here she tells us why she set up the business, the issues surrounding ethical clothes and what alternatives there are. More →

Elonearth is a superb new eco bespoke furniture company that has been set up in the last year by Eleanor Davies. More →

The words ‘oil' and ‘green' don't usually go together but an award winning Kent-based company, called Green Oil UK Ltd, supplies bike oil that is environmentally friendly, biodegradable and palm oil free. We were intrigued so caught up with their founder Simon Nash to find out more... More →

In this article Jim'll looks at ten potential holiday destinations and shows how you can find out what carbon dioxide emissions are produced. Getting good estimates for the CO2 output is not always as easy as it seems, but there are free resources that can help you. Food for thought when you're planning your summer break! More →

When Brigit asked the BGI newsletter team to introduce a series of videos on bushcraft, our first thought was ‘How relevant are bushcraft skills to the BGI's aim of showing people how sustainable living can be easy, healthy, inexpensive and fun?' Yet there has been a great deal of interest in bushcraft, also known as woodcraft or wilderness skills, recently, partly because of the popularity of Ray Mears' television programmes such as Ray Mears' Bushcraft, World of Survival and Extreme Survival. So what is the attraction of bushcraft, and what is its role in living a more sustainable life? More →

We probably all know that printer cartridges and mobile phones can be recycled, but did you realise that they can raise £1 per inkjet cartridge, up to £5 per laser/toner cartridge, and up to £30 for a mobile phone for your favourite charity? No prizes for guessing which charity I'm hoping is your favourite... If, like me, you have a large stash of used ink cartridges because you haven't got round to finding a convenient way to recycle them, you could be sitting on a valuable source of funds. More →

BGI volunteer Juliet has decided that 2010 is the year to discover just how green a fifty-something single woman who lives halfway up a Welsh mountain can go. If she can do it, so can you! More →

Are you feeling crafty? Be part of the BGI Patchwork Quilt Project! More →