Water cooler company Eden Springs claims it has slashed its carbon emissions by 184,000 tonnes since 2010. The water and coffee supplier reckons it has offset the same amount of carbon as nearly 378,000 flights from London to New York by working with The Carbon Neutral Company. Giving customers water coolers that turn off during the night and on the weekends is partly to thank for […]

It’s an energy manager’s worst nightmare: making an ancient, draughty building like Dinefwr Castle in Wales (pictured) more energy efficient. But that’s exactly what the National Trust has been doing – and saving itself £280,000 a year in the process. The conservation charity has cut its energy use in its Welsh properties by 41% in two […]

An entrepreneur has condemned the inefficiency of the UK’s swimming pools, by claiming his insulation invention could save 786,279 tonnes of CO2 entering the atmosphere each year- the equivalent of a forest of 86 million trees. Nigel Rose, the inventor of the Thermapool said: “I have developed a system which can be fitted to new […]

The boss of O2 will be one of the speakers at The Sustainable Business Summit in London next month. Ronan Dunne will join The Carbon Trust’s chief executive Tom Delay to discuss a case study looking at the future definitions of sustainability and how a business will address them. Last week O2 entered the smart […]

The LFB were set the target of reducing its 1990 CO2 emissions by 20% by 2012 but they have achieved this goal already and are on course to exceed the Mayor’s current target of 22% by 2015. The figures were revealed to the London Fire Authority committee which is now asking for a new target […]