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Teenagers talk about climate change
4:33pm Monday 1st December 2008
Puberty is tough enough without having to worry about saving the planet, too. SARAH LEWIS talks to Brighton and Hove teenagers about growing up with climate change.
Comments (0)Eco-dilemmas solved
4:46pm Friday 28th November 2008
All the top tip columns make being green sound so easy: just change your light bulbs, walk to the shops and do your recycling, but it never really works out like that. SARAH LEWIS turns agony aunt and answers some of your pressing eco-questions.
Green people get to work
3:50pm Wednesday 19th November 2008
As the economy crumbles around our ears, there is one kind of business which is thriving and its main driver is not profit and growth but social wellbeing and environmental health. Sarah Lewis talks to some of Brighton and Hove’s most successful social enterprises. It may seem counterintuitive to set up a business with the express purpose of giving away the profits, but increasingly people are doing just that – and Brighton and Hove is a hotbed of such social entrepreneurship.
Paint the town green
3:59pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
When it comes to greening our houses, we all know about insulating our walls and draught-proofing, but the latest big thing in environmentally sound building technology is… plants.
Fireworks: pretty as sin?
3:25pm Monday 27th October 2008
Guy Fawkes night may not be until November 5, but you can guarantee the next two weeks will see plenty of oohing and aahing as noisy and colourful fireworks take to the sky.
Weapons of choice
3:30pm Monday 20th October 2008
Since opening earlier this month, the Brighton Photo Biennial has sparked debate about all aspects of war. Stark images of bomb-cratered landscapes and bullet-bitten buildings have shown war destroys not just lives, but the world around us, too.
Beware the green reaper
3:50pm Monday 13th October 2008
With scientific reports on the effects of climate change growing ever more terrifying by the day, Sarah Lewis speaks to some experts to ponder what they think the future holds for us, and asks the ultimate horror-story question on everyone’s lips: are we all going to die?
Cause and effect
5:25pm Monday 29th September 2008
Here in Sussex we soon get in a tizz about wheelie bins, new incinerators, recycling collections and landfill site proposals – but all this is as nothing to the effect our Western throwaway consumer habit is having elsewhere in the world.
Green streets of Brighton
3:42pm Monday 22nd September 2008
On Sunday, Brighton and Hove residents were encouraged to leave their cars at home and find other ways of getting around as part of the Streets For People event.
One Brighton's sustainable start
2:57pm Monday 15th September 2008
The most progressive, sustainable community in the country opened its doors yesterday and The Argus was there to have a nose around.
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Eco-dilemmas solved
All the top tip columns make being green sound so easy: just change your light bulbs, walk to the shops and do your recycling, but it never really works out like that. SARAH LEWIS turns agony aunt and answers some of your pressing eco-questions.
Comment: Sign up to an NHS dentist to beat decay
When the new NHS dental contract was introduced, large numbers of dentists left the NHS and focused on private patients.
Woe of Woolies
Woolworths, one of the best-known names on the British high street, has been put into administration with £385 million of debt. As company bosses and administrators Deloitte wrestle with the task of rescuing the business, RICHARD GURNER takes a look back at the company’s history in Sussex and asks business leaders what needs to be done to revive its fortunes.
This week's walk: Horsted Keynes and Furner's Green
From the village of Horsted Keynes, this walk heads eastwards to encircle the nearby settlement of Danehill, crossing and recrossing two well-wooded valleys before returning along part of the Sussex Border Path, a longdistance walking route which sticks fairly closely to the boundary between East and West Sussex.
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