Bestival will be rocking the Bandstand Stage at this weekend’s inaugural Isle of Wight Big Green Picnic.
The Bandstand Stage will play host to a cornucopia of local musical talent, with local folk band The Wellbeing, environmental theatre by Quantum Theatre, Jazz and storytelling all represented at some point over the weekend.

This coming weekend, residents and visitors to the Isle of Wight, are being invited to go green and have fun at the Big Green Picnic.
The event is being organised to show families and individuals how they can contribute to the Eco Island aim of making the Isle of Wight England’s greenest place.

The Isle of Wight Council has signed a groundbreaking partnership deal with the University of Southampton to help realise its Eco Island ambitions.
The Memorandum of Understanding between the prestigious Russell Group University and the council will see the council and academics working together to reduce the Island’s carbon footprint.

The Bishop of Portsmouth the Rt Rev Kenneth Stevenson has praised Isle of Wight’s Eco-Island vision during a debate in the House of Lords.
Dr Stevenson who was one of the keynote speakers at the Isle of Wight’s Council-organised Eco-Island conference recently told the House that the Eco-Island project was the “most ambitious and laudable” that [...]

Brian Postill reports: Having recently seen on TV South the hopes of the Isle of Wight to go totally self sufficient in power in the next few years.
I had an idea about using the powerful tides that run  between the Island and the mainland by piers that could incorporate water turbines in their construction.  (Such as [...]

Isle of Wight Council is hosting its “Big Green Picnic” in Newport town centre over the weekend of May 24th and 25th where businesses, arts organisations and public sector bodies such as Isle of Wight Council will be showing off fun filled ways in which the Isle of Wight can go Green.
Thousands of Isle of [...]

While Island residents have been pumped up with the Isle of Wight Council Eco Island scheme, the government have just unveiled a shortlist of “eco-towns” to be built across the country.
Eco-towns will be the first new towns since the 1960s and will tackle the combined challenges of climate change, the need for more sustainable living [...]

At the landmark Isle of Wight green conference Eco Island, record breaking yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur (pictured) highlighted how she feels modern living has become detached from the resources it consumes.
Held in Cowes, the conference was a rallying call to businesses and organisations to support the Eco Island aim of making the Isle of Wight carbon neutral [...]