The United Nations Conference on Sustainability, Rio+20, began today (20 June), amid cries from environmentalists that the negotiated agreement is a “colossal failure”.

First our phones and now our clothes are going ‘smart’. But what price will the environment pay for newly-gadgetised attire?

It’s 2011. The world’s a little warmer, sea levels are a little higher and people in the Maldives are a little jumpier. And if Environment Secretary David Miliband is to be believed, part of the solution to climate change could lie in the pockets of the British public.

A new book from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) provides a 'manifesto' for home and community energy revolution

The charity Tools for Self Reliance (TFSR) has been successfully salvaging ageing and rusting trade tools for over 30 years, with an impressive 58 TFSR groups across the UK from the Channel Islands to Aberdeen.

In 2003, the previous government launched a project with the aim of ‘encouraging the development of new technologies for the recovery of value and the diversion of biodegradable municipal waste from landfill’.

M&S has launched a new initiative to reduce the amount of clothing that gets sent to landfill in the UK. The ‘shwopping’ scheme will encourage shoppers to donate an item of clothing for each one that they buy. The donations will be collected by Oxfam to resell or recycle.

De-Inking Screen® [dē′iŋk·iŋ skrēn] A Bulk Handling Systems unit designed to separate cardboard and rigid fibre from newspaper and other flexible fibres.

Matthew Thomson is to leave his post as the Chief Executive of the London Community Resource Network (LCRN) tomorrow, 30 March, after more than five years at the helm

Nobody likes to waste food, and yet we all do it – most of us in vast quantities and at great cost to the environment and our pockets. In the first of a two-part article, Libby Peake learns why, and how we can stop