Contract caterers, Compass Group, have banned the use of sixty nine species of fish due to concerns of over fishing.
The company provides food at 6,500 restaurants across the UK including Proctor & Gamble, Bristol Zoo, Chelsea Football Club and various schools.
Banned species include certain varieties of tuna, skate, plaice, tiger prawns, salmon and lobster.
The catering [...]

London Mayor, Boris Johnson has a new environmental program for London which includes asking developers to add roof gardens to many of London’s buildings.
Changes to planning regulations should it more difficult for property developers to buy back gardens to use as building plots.
Boris also has plans for the creation of over two thousand new allotments [...]

After Greenpeace ‘outed’ Nike’s contribution to the destruction of the Amazon Rain Forest, Nike have announced new standards for stopping the use of Amazon leather in its shoes.
Nike approached Greenpeace for help with the new leather sourcing policy and will be sticking to those standards until guarantees are in place that none of the cattle [...]

Britain is playing its part in fuelling the trade in obsolete electronic products that are dumped in Ghana. PC’s that had originally been used in MOD offices had been sold to a UK company to be allegedly re-used but somehow found their way to the waste site.
These old computers, keyboards and monitors are termed ‘e-waste’ [...]

Nissan have announced plans to build a new factory in Sunderland dedicated to the production of batteries for electric cars. Up to 350 new jobs should be created.
In addition Nissan is looking to build a new plant in 2012 for the production of electric cars which will be situated nearby.
Toyota have also announced [...]

Michael Jackson was widely thought of as an eco warrior but his recent memorial and funeral was far from kind to the planet.
His ostentatious, £15,000 coffin was made from 14K gold plated bronze. It was the same coffin that was used for James Brown. This is a coffin that’s built to last and not [...]

The environmentally conscious adults of the future are the children of today so try these guidelines to help your kids grow up into responsible human beings:
• Lead by example. Show your kids that you care about the planet and the life forms that depend upon it. Reduce your energy consumption and use recyclable and reusable products [...]