This weeks Leamington Courier featured an article about the proposal by the local Chamber of Commerce to phase out the single use carrier bag in the Leamington, Warwick and Kenilworth area. As a green business based in Leamington we were pleased to see this issue highlighted, although disappointed with the response from one particular shop [...]

The Green Party’s Mike Sheridan made history today, gaining the North Solihull seat of Smith’s Wood, toppling the Leader of the Labour group with a landslide majority. Mike won 45% of the vote to Labour’s 28%. The Green Party has been growing in Solihull year-on-year. In 2006, they beat Labour in more than half of [...]

To mark the national day of action against false solutions on 1st May, Leamington’s Rising Tide group will be attending a demo at E-on’s headquarters in Coventry. E-on are accused of green washing because of their work with carbon capture and the fact that they are building a new coal powered station. Rising Tide members [...]

This months featured site highlights the issues of plastic packaging particularly in the form of carrier bags and disposable cups. Although the site is American the subject is relevant to the U.K and most nations in the developed world. Bringyourown.org has a host of amazing statistics and frightening information relating to plastic pollution but also [...]

Roll up, roll up! The climate circus is in town. Confronted with melting ice caps, unprecedented species extinction, droughts and extreme weather, climate change threatens our very survival. Whatever we consume – food, clothes, housing, agriculture, transportation, technology, holidays – almost all of our consumption is dependent on the continuous use of fossil fuels. The [...]

Throughout the world people will be switching their lights off at 8 O’clock tonight. Already hundreds of thousands of Australians have flicked the switch to mark the second earth hour, a worldwide movement against climate change. Even Google’s webpage, one of the most visited wepages on the globe is marking the occasion with a black [...]

Come and join us for some cycling fun. Cyclists, skaters, walkers and anyone else interested in reclaiming the street of Leamington are welcome. Meet 6pm at the Bandstand, Pump Room Gardens. Sustainable Transport Listings

Although inspired by our nearest big CM in Bimingham, we just want to reclaim our rightful bit of the road and celebrate cycling while doing so with safety in numbers Originally we thought that just once a year (timed to coincide with the Peace Festival) would be the best that could be expected from a [...]