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Shoppers recycle On-The-Go

 TV gardener David Domoney officially opens the recycling zone in Festival Place

3:53pm Friday 22nd August 2008

VISITORS to Festival Place in Basingstoke can now do their bit for the environment while they do their shopping.

Free bulbs for 'at risk' households

12:50pm Monday 18th August 2008

MORE than two million households are to receive free energy-saving light bulbs as part of a national scheme to help combat fuel poverty.

Energy meter is a smart way of monitoring usage

Stephen Millward, energy efficiency manager at Southern Electric, shows householder Sheelagh Tomlin, of Britten Road, Brighton Hill, Basingstoke, the new smart energy meter

4:42pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008

PIONEERING smart metering is being trialled in Basingstoke by Southern Electric.

Business park focuses on green transport

10:59am Tuesday 15th April 2008

CHINEHAM Park is a champion of sustainable travel.

Village embraces move away from plastic bags

9:23am Thursday 6th March 2008

IT MAY be a small thing, but the plastic bag - and its future - has become big news.

Green gardeners grow in numbers

10:29am Friday 29th February 2008

A RECORD number of borough residents have signed up to have their green garden waste collected and recycled by the council.

They could be Heroes

9:55am Friday 29th February 2008

FESTIVAL Place is the latest organisation to be nominated for the Green Watch Heroes Awards.

Knitter finds a novel use for old bags

Jenny Shurgold with one of the bags she has knitted using plastic shopping bags

10:56am Friday 22nd February 2008

OLD plastic bags have been given a new lease of life - thanks to the handiwork of a keen north Hampshire knitter.

Green school of thought

FROM LEFT: Jamie Woods, seven, Jacob Austen, eight, James Smith, eight, Lauren Ballard, nine, and Chloe Cook, eight, with some of the school's recycling

10:34am Friday 8th February 2008

A PRIMARY school which has set up its own recycling centre and recycling club has been put forward as a nominee for the Green Watch Heroes Awards.

AWE goes green by turning orange

Awe's fleet of electric vehicles replaces the old diesel ones

11:49am Wednesday 6th February 2008

A FLEET of bright orange vehicles will be spreading a green message as they drive around the area's Atomic Weapons Establishment sites.






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