27
Jul
Organic Week – 4th to 12th September all across the UK. Events include the Organic fair in Bristol on 4th and 5th Sept, discounts on organic products in most shops, organic farm tours and open days, walks and worshops.
For a list of events see the Organic week website
27
Jul
Tree houses are not just for children. A tree house can be a great summer house, studio or reading room…
27
Jul
If any manufacturers are reading this – here are three products we would order if they existed. All are winners of 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Awards (IDEA).
26
Jul
Party tents are not just for parties. As well as accommodating 10 people standing, they are a great as shelters for camping or on the beach. We had a look at some for you.
26
Jul
Brazil’s coast-line is for sale and Argentina, still reeling from the economic collapse, also has land deals. Westerners with cash to spare are heading out there to buy land. Better in our hands than some faceless multinational.
22
Jul
It looks like a big metallic mushroom, a futuristic tent or a spaceship. Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion was the first modern house specifically designed to be off -grid, autonomous, energy self-sufficient and environment friendly. That was almost a century ago. Best known for the invention of the geodesic dome, Buckminster Fuller is also one of the founders of the environmental design movement.
22
Jul
Electric cars are eco-friendly, cheap and widely available…but not in Europe. ‘Loyal-to-oil’ car manufacturers tend not to market them and most of us still think electric cars exist only on golf courses.
21
Jul
Photovoltaic cells, the devices that make up solar panels, are made out of silicon. This semiconductor converts the light that strikes it into electricity. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) have isolated proteins from plant leaves that do just the same thing.
21
Jul
Eco design and construction – 13th to 17th Sept. A holistic approach to eco-design. At the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynllet,Wales
Fee £500 / £395 / £250
courses@cat.org.uk
Domestic photovoltaic installation – 27th Sept to 1st Oct. In Rattclif-on-Soar, UK
Fee £750
info@streem.org