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May 20th, 2009

Better environments, Better lives

I'm doing a little bit of blogging on this site, with Nick Booth, kicked off by a conference, it’s all based around the theme of environmental justice. The idea is to encourage debate on how people can "breathe new life into the poorest environments, from neglected rivers to brownfield land sites, ensur[ing] environmental improvements are community driven and owned". [link]

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June 11th, 2008

Is it bin day?

Does anyone want to help make a quick website that could answer this eternal question, and perhaps spread a bit of environmental advice as it goes?

Along the lines of isitChristmas, but obviously localised by Post Code, the site would offer RSS and iCal feeds of whether it’s bin day for you — with reminders the day before, and telling you what week it is for recycling purposes (green or paper/plastic) for those that have differences. Along with this simple, but useful service it could impart environmental advice and info slipped into the RSS as well as somewhere on the site. It could even do calculations of stuff like “my council doesn’t collect X, is it better to just bin or drive it to the recycling centre?”.

It could get a few ads from electricity suppliers etc to pay its way perhaps.

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