Information on Your Everyday Pollution Issues…
Interview: How We’re Making Our School Greener
As greater importance is placed on the environment, more and more schools are educating children in a practical way by getting them actively involved in green initiatives. One such school is Brunswick Primary in Sheffield which was recently announced winner [...]
Planting a Woodland Area in School: A Case Study
Trees and the copses and woodland they make up are an essential part of our heritage and yet one which, if we’re not careful, would be all too easy to lose. Loss of Native Woodlands According to national woodlands charity, [...]
Climate Change and Pollution: How the Maldives Are Sinking
Picture this: pristine white beaches stretching as far as the eye can see, palm trees swaying gently in the breeze, the scent of coconut in the air and transparent water sparkling under an azure sky. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t [...]
How Two Gardeners Went Totally Organic: a Case Study
Mr and Mrs Owen from Hereford are a lively couple of retirement age who have undertaken the enormous project of transforming four large fields of agricultural land into a beautiful hilltop garden. Over the past few years they have created [...]
Eco-friendly Schools: A Case Study
With more emphasis in recent years on pollution, recycling, energy use and other important environmental issues, children today are learning how to look after our planet from an early age. In fact, the government see this as such an important [...]
The Poles in Peril: The Vanishing Arctic
Climate change is an expression with which most of us are now familiar. Stories of changing weather patterns, rising sea levels and vanishing habitats have been around for a number of years and foremost among them headlines about our vanishing [...]
Pollution: Understanding Food Labels
How much salt? Wrong kind of fat? Too high in sugar? Is it organic? We’ve all been there – staring at a food carton in the supermarket aisle, trying to work out what’s good for us, what might be alright [...]
Questionnaire: How Toxic is Your Hair?
There have been a number of reports in newspapers and magazines addressing the potentially hazardous substances commonly found in the ingredients of many hair care products. It's certainly important to weigh up the evidence available and come to your own [...]
Safety Concerns about Pylons and Phone Masts
For a long time now there has been concern raised over the safety of electricity pylons and mobile phone masts but until now there hasn’t been enough substantiated evidence to force a change. However new evidence could ensure that a [...]
Pollution from Your Heating
There comes a time of year when if you live in Britain the doors stay closed, the curtains are drawn and the heating is turned up. But the simple act of heating our home can also pollute the environment. By [...]
Mobile Phones and Electromagnetic Pollution
Most of us have one and many of us couldn’t do without one – but what if you were allergic to them? We’re talking mobile phones. A 40-yr old Debbie Bird is allergic to them. But why? Could they be [...]
Monitoring Radiation Levels
When we think of monitoring radiation levels, Apocalypse images of nuclear fallout immediately spring to mind. However radiation occurs naturally in the environment and we are all exposed to low levels each day. So who does the monitoring and why [...]
Cancers and Chemicals
We are bombarded with information all the time that chemicals can cause cancer. But how do we measure the risks and sort out the facts from the scare stories? Chemicals In The Environment Each day we are exposed to thousands [...]
How Paint Pollution Effects the Environment
We all like the idea of a quick home make-over - and what better pick-me-up for tired-looking walls than a fresh lick of paint? But the USA’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) classifies paint as one of its top five most [...]
Lead Piping and the Environment
Until around about 1970, houses were traditionally serviced with lead pipes and water tanks. However, with the realisation that they could contaminate the drinking water supply they were phased out. So what harm does lead do? Lead In The Environment [...]
Baby Bottles and Bisphenol A
The chemical Bisphenol A has been the cause for concern for environmentalists for more than seventy years and rose to public attention through its use in babies’ bottles. But what exactly is Bisphenol A and what does it do? What [...]