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Driving sustainable fashion, from old car parts

Ford challenges designers to create fashion collection with materials used in old cars

  • Recycling
  • 27 February 2015
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Squirrel goes nuts for green car parts

A man in Croydon claims squirrels are attracted to the plant-based plastics in his Toyota

  • Automotive
  • 06 February 2015
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Turning roadkill into fashion - an industry fur-st?

Petite Mort Fur is using "accidental fur" to create custom couture

  • Recycling
  • 09 January 2015
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Man swallowed by a snake 'to highlight deforestation'

Paul Rosolie's take on climate action really sticks in the Sceptic Tank's throat

  • Biodiversity
  • 28 November 2014
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Nuclear fusion power - made in Chelsea

Former star of E4 show embarks on new venture in nuclear physics

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  • 24 October 2014
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Take two bottles into the shower? No, I'll take a tree

Why don't all shampoo bottles turn into shrubberies, ponders the Sceptic Tank

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  • 17 October 2014
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Manchester United's latest Spanish signing could be its most important yet

England's most popular mid-table team enlists Abengoa as its first Official Sustainable Technology Partner

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  • 03 October 2014
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All together now: 'Three lions made of waste...'

The home of English football now has three lions made of rubbish

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  • 14 August 2014
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Smog suffocated my marriage

Beijing man files for divorce after air pollution drives his wife out of the city

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  • 02 May 2014
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M&S puts a green spin on beach litter

Retailer launches Frisbee made of recycled plastic cleared from UK beaches

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  • 25 April 2014
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Could bamboo stands cause panda-monium?

Setting up an exhibition stand made of sustainable bamboo might be risky

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  • 21 March 2014
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That was the waste that was

Sutton Council creates an 11-tonne rubbish mountain with a day's worth of litter

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Sprouts to light up your Christmas

Scientists find new use for the much maligned Brussels sprout during the festive season

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  • 27 November 2013
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Ben & Jerry's moo-ved to give cows a helping hand

Ice Cream supremos join campaign to improve the lot of the humble dairy cow

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  • 25 October 2013
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A truly rubbish boat trip

Plans are afoot to build a boat out of refuse and sail it down the Hudson River

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The green solution to more energetic meetings?

Delegates at one Lincolnshire hotel will be asked to generate their own power for meetings

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  • 23 August 2013
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Check in to your hotel, check out a new bag

Marriott starts selling tote bags made from recycled linen for charity

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  • 09 August 2013
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My boy builds eco-friendly coffins

Derbyshire coffin makers laying unsustainable practices to rest

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Turtle power!

Sea turtles are being scared off nesting sites by bright lights - but energy efficient LEDs could provide a solution

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  • 24 May 2013
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Clear Channel shows off advertising l'eau-how

A Peruvian billboard has produced 15,000 litres of drinking water from the surrounding air

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  • 17 May 2013
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Apocalypse? Wow!

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  • 07 May 2013
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Red Nose Day: It's not just the jokes that are recycled

Sainsbury's has helped turn a whopping 1.5 million red noses into underlay

  • Recycling
  • 17 April 2013
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Bless – a peddle-powered Popemobile

Pope Francis to take delivery of most low-carbon form of transport possible – if designs are approved today

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  • 01 April 2013
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