Carbon Footprint

Why It's Time to Declare War on Plastic Bottle Waste

Fiona Hope | Posted 28.03.2013 | UK
Fiona Hope

In the UK, 15 million plastic bottles are used every day, and, despite increasingly improving waste disposal services, 80% of these are not recycled. Everyday approximately one billion bottles and cans are dumped in parks, rivers oceans and landfill sites - almost 400 million of those in America alone.

Rio Summit Must Put People Before Profits

Paul Collins | Posted 19.08.2012 | UK Politics
Paul Collins

As Rio hosts the Earth Summit's opening today, War on Want is joining forces with more than 100 civil society organisations to launch a campaign for world leaders to put the needs of people and the planet before the profits of big business.

How 'Learning by Doing' Can Make the UK a Leader in the Global Carbon Capture Market

Anne Strommen Lycke | Posted 10.07.2012 | UK
Anne Strommen Lycke

The recent launch of the UK Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Competition and CCS Roadmap provides a much-needed shot in the arm to this exciting industry, both by financially and in displaying the UK government's commitment to this vital technology.

Clean Energy: If Apple Can't Afford to Think Different, No One Can

Leila Deen | Posted 26.06.2012 | UK Tech
Leila Deen

Those Apple stores are so beautiful. All pale and linear - clean clean clean. The irony is poignant. As we pointed out in our report, How Clean is your Cloud, Apple is in fact powering their iCloud with coal.

London Fashion Week: Corrie Nielsen S/S 12 and the Carbon Off-Set Dilemma

Christine de Leon | Posted 19.11.2011 | UK Style
Christine de Leon

Corrie Nielsen's Spring/Summer 2012 Collection entitled Arbiter Elegantiarum is heavily inspired by Wildean Victoriana where she cleverly melds English tailoring with modernist Japanese aesthetics...But how carbon neutral can she remain as a business?

What's Your Water Footprint?

Andrew Wigley | Posted 29.10.2011 | UK
Andrew Wigley

Renewed focus on the relationship between business, the consumer and water consumption emerged again last week in Stockholm at the annual World Water ...