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Luxury interior design: yes it does do green

luxury design can product very eco friendly interiors as many homeware product are hand-made using sustainable timbers and fabrics. Luxury designers in the UK include laura Hammett

Green Homes Grant Scheme

Aster la vista: flower of the month

asters are a perfect flower for autumn colour in the garden

FLINT: documentary about toxic tap water in the US

FLINT - described as a 'monumental testimonial' -  provides chapter and verse on what is the largest water poisoning disaster in American history.

Reduced plastic in Wilko Christmas paper products

As we now know, many Christmas paper products aren't recyclable because they have hard-to-separate coatings of plastic or are covered with non-recyclable glitter or foil. This year retailer Wilko has taken steps towards eliminating single-use plastic from its paper and packaging. For example its gift and bottle bags are now 100 per cent recyclable, as are  its duo cocktail kisses and duo Christmas foliage 16-pack Christmas card packs - both cards and the boxes they come in. 

Beaver Trust launches film to promote beavers as friend not foe

Britain’s beavers could be major allies in tackling the climate and extinction crises – but without more public and government support face a fragile future, says Beaver Trust, which is launching a new documentary exploring the UK's relationship with the endangered but controversial species.

Charlie Luxton: High octane enthusiast for low energy living

Designer Charlie Luxton has a new Channel 4 series Homes By The Med, which looks at lovely houses by the coast. He has worked on BBC DIY-SOS as a designer. He trained as an architect. He has presented Building a New Life In The Country shown on Channel 5. Charlie Luxton is a proponent of self-build houses and eco friendly interior design and construction.

The Ideal Home Show at London's Earls Court

The Ideal Home Show at London's Earls Court runs until April 1. It has full size houses, lots of eco friendly, sustainable products and room sets, and a packed schedule of talks and seminars, and plenty of celebrities such as George Clarke, and Alan Titchmarsh. The show is in its 105th year. 

Making its mark quietly: Quiet Mark

The sound of silence.. Quietmark is an organisation which urges us to make time for silence and to choose products in our home which are quiet. 

Fans for fans of quiet fans

Quiet Mark is an organisation that works with manufacturers to get them to engineer quietness into their products. And if there's one thing everyone says would be less annoying if it were quieter, it's the fan, now crucial to getting through a British summer.

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