The Isle of Wight Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England is offering Island schools cash to help turn their green ideas into action. The school pupils are being given the challenge to come up with ideas that benefit their school, community and the Island’s environment…
Commuters on the Isle of Wight are being challenged to find out how much money they can save by signing up to carsharewight.com and linking up with someone travelling the same way. National Liftshare Day on Tuesday 9th June aims to encourage and enable commuters to discover the benefits of sharing their drive to work, people living and working on the Isle of Wight…
In an effort to make the Isle of Wight a little greener, the Council in partnership with the Chamber of Commerce and IW College have introduced an Island-wide car sharing scheme and launched a brand new website www.carsharewight.com…
Island School children have been learning about recycling by turning rubbish into musical instruments and mini composters with the help of the Isle of Wight Council’s waste minimisation and recycling officer. Pupils at Cowes and Yarmouth Primary Schools focused on…
A great event to visit if your getting hot under the collar about energy? a 2 day exhibition is taking place (November 28th and 29th) at Newport Football Club, so you can see how woodfuel can work for you…
Quite appropriate news for World Toilet Day: Two new Isle of Wight Council built eco-toilets have been given a plush four-star rating in the National Loo of the Year Awards. Eco Loo’s at Brading and Yaverland (pictured)…
For the first time in the UK and after a four month delay on the original planned summer opening, the Energos gasification plant on the Isle of Wight, has begun processing waste. The plant (pictured) is expected to be fully operational by mid November….
A great event to visit if your getting hot under the collar about energy, organised by Island 2000, a 2 day exhibition (November 28th and 29th) on the Isle of Wight. To show members of the public and local businesses how they can heat their homes using biomass fuel - that is logs, woodchip, pellets…
