ECOFFINS

http://www.ecoffins.co.uk/products.aspx

Started as a family business in Kent, this unusual buisness has blossomed.
Making eco friendly coffins which are biodegradable so nothing is wasted and it all goes back into the environment.
the coffins are made out of different types of woods so come in a range of different styles and colours.
Personally my favourite is the Pine coffin.

Recycling in the UK

www.recyclenow.com

Recycle Now is a website which is designed to provide the public with the information they need to know about what they can recycle and how to do it and where to take it. Their website is simply their to tell the British public everything they need to know about recycling, this is the national recycling campaign for England and is funded by the government.

A Billboard That Condenses Water From Humidity

The same people who made the Clean Air billboard previously made a billboard that would get the high percentage of humidity and filter it down and turn it into fresh clean drinking water. This brilliant idea helps thousands get water and just with the simple idea of a billboard.

At the edge of the Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on earth, Lima, Peru, receives almost no rainfall. About 700,000 people have no access to clean water for drinking or bathing. Another 600,000 of the city's 7.5 million residents rely on cisterns for their water, which must be filled by pumps or by hand and cleaned regularly. But Lima's Pacific Coast location experiences humidity of more than 90 percent on summer days, from December to February. So engineers from Peru's University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) have devised a way to turn that humid air into usable water. Last December, they erected a billboard in the Bujama District of Lima that by early March had produced 9450 liters (about 2500 gallons) of water. The idea came about because UTEC was facing a slump in enrollment as the new semester approached; the engineering department wanted a way to attract more engineering students to the university. They went to Peruvian ad agency Mayo Publicidad, and the partnership of engineers and marketers crafted an advertisement that would provide a very visible demonstration of the university's engineering projects. The water-collecting billboard was born. Electricity from the city's power lines runs the five condensers inside the billboard. Like the condenser in your home air conditioner, the ones in the UTEC billboard are cooler than the air outside. When air contacts the cooled surfaces of the condensers, the air also cools, and the water vapor in the air condenses into liquid water. After reverse-osmosis purification, the water flows down into a 20-liter storage tank at the base of the billboard. The billboard generates about 96 liters of water each day, and a simple faucet gives local residents access to the water. UTEC has not yet announced whether the water will be available for free, but the billboard reportedly cost only about $1200 to install.

Fujitsu's Enviromentally Freindly Technology

Fujitsu is a company which sell various types of computing products, unlike most main stream computing companies fujitsu heavily considers their products environmental impact. As technology is evolving so rapidly and becoming such a big part of everyday life every company should be trying to make their products as environmentally friendly possible, this page shows many examples of their products and how they have designed them to be more Eco friendly.

Billboard Air

A brilliant idea put into place in Peru to purify the air which from a nearby construction site had damaged. UTEC and FCB Mayo's fantastic billboard idea has worked just as well as what some 1,200 trees could be doing.

Peru is in the middle of a construction boom that generates a lot of unhealthy pollution. Peruvian engineering university UTEC and its ad agency, FCB Mayo, decided to create an air-purifying billboard designed to mitigate the environmental damage the school causes as it builds a new campus. The billboard has the added advantage of promoting the new campus, boosted by the claim that the school will help students learn how to do things like create billboards that filter about 100,000 cubic meters of clean air a day, reaching as far as five blocks away and equivalent to what some 1,200 trees would do. The environmentally friendly campaign is part of a tried-and-true strategy for UTEC and FCB Mayo. Last year they famously created a billboard that helped address a rainfall shortage in Lima by converting atmospheric humidity into clean drinking water. (That work earned numerous accolades, including Adweek's Isaac Gravity Award and a gold Lion in Outdoor at Cannes.) The new one is a welcome follow-up, possibly even more powerful—though perhaps less so—as it addresses a problem the school helped create. In fact, the thing that may be most wrong with it is that it makes every other billboard in the world look bad by comparison.

Freegans

 

Freegans are an anti consumist group that practise in waste reclamation and waste minimalization. They force these into action by dumpster diving and urban foraging, where they recover usable items that have been needlessly discarded. They also hold events where you can swap goods, such as food, and presents. They promote websites such as freecycle where the public can advertise anything for free, with no purchase.

Back To Basics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi0iph59UfY

The documentary speaks about the consumerism problem that faces the people of Moscow and how people can't stop buying materialistic items, people spending a whole wage on a pair of shoes. It also speaks about an anti-consumerism group that recycle  and how the group is trying to change other opinions on consumerism and create a better lifestyle without waste and giving things away, which usually they throw away and give them to strangers for free.