Re-pute.it Laptop Upcycling
A new social enterprise in Durham is upcycling laptops to reduce e-waste and build community resilience. An estimated 350,000 tonnes of e-waste are brought to household waste recycling centres in...
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Cundall One Planet Living
Newcastle-based engineering consultancy Cundall demonstrates its commitment to sustainability with an ambitious target of One Planet Living. A striking newspaper headline in December caught my attention. It suggested that 2016...
New Puritans and the Circular Economy
Musings on coffee, consumer culture and a circular economy. I was saddened to read the report on Treehugger that Renato Bialetti died earlier this month. Bialetti brought his father’s iconic...
Dynamic Druridge : New Visitor Centre Taking Shape
A new visitor centre at Hauxley Nature Reserve is shaping up to be Northumberland’s latest green building. I woke on Sunday to snow. I’d arranged to join the open day...
Could You Ditch the Car?
Car ownership is costly on the environment and our pockets. Transport blending could help you to ditch the car in favour of more sustainable travel choices. Twice in the last...
REfUSE pop-up cafe tackles food waste
REfUSE, a pop-up cafe in Durham, rescues surplus food and serves up delicious meals to the public rather than see it go to waste. Newcastle is celebrating its annual Restaurant Week...
Top 5 Posts from 2015
As Tracing Green reaches it’s 1st birthday, we bring you the Top 5 posts from 2015. Tracing Green is one year old today, and it’s been a roller coaster of a...
Teeside company Quorn™ at forefront of sustainable food.
Are you making any New Year’s resolutions? Cutting your meat consumption is the easiest way to reduce your impact on the environment. I’m not a vegetarian, but for the last...
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