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Businesses could boost productivity by encouraging cycling and walking to work
Environmental charities and sustainability experts are calling on company bosses to encourage their staff to walk and cycle to work and reap the rewards of a more productive workforce.Electric vehicles: it’s time for businesses to wake up to the benefits
With new models, new technology, improvements in infrastructure, and Government subsidies, more and more consumers are realising the cost and carbon benefits of electric vehicles – it’s time businesses did too, says Andreas Atkins, head of Electric Vehicle Services, British Gas.Met office warns of winter flooding
The UK must brace itself for a high likelihood of winter floods, the Met Office and the Government’s flooding watchdog have warned.New tree planting scheme to offset CO2 from scrap cars
Give A Car, a social enterprise that scraps cars for charities, has joined forces with environmental charity, Trees for Cities, to offer motorists the chance to plant saplings in return for their unwanted vehicles.POD Point to provide free electric car charging at home and workplace
Electric and hybrid vehicle charging company POD Point is offering free home and workplace charging units to electric and hybrid vehicle owners in three English regions.Month’s worth of rain expected to fall in one day across England and Wales
The Environment Agency has issued a severe flood warning for parts of England and Wales today, as forecasters predict one month’s worth of rain is set to fall in one day.greentomatocars switches on Wi-Fi in run up to Games
greentomatocars is to provide free Wi-Fi across its entire fleet of minicabs in preparation for London 2012.WWF helps leading firms cut business flights and save £21m
Twelve leading UK firms, including Lloyds TSB, BSkyB and Marks and Spencer have reduced their business flights by 41 per cent as a result of taking part in a programme run by WWF.O2 flexible working experiment saves 12 tonnes of CO2
Mobile phone operator O2 claims to have saved the equivalent of 12 tonnes of carbon emissions in the biggest one-day flexible working initiative to ever have been undertaken by the company.Warning of travel disruption as Scotland goes on amber snow alert
The Met Office has today issued an amber level Severe Weather Warning with a forecast of heavy snow falling across much of Scotland from tonight and into Tuesday morning.Cycling gets extra £15m of funding to boost UK’s green travel
The UK Government has announced a package of support worth £15 million to fund sustainable cycling projects across the country.UK braced for snow chaos as gritter trucks clock up a million miles
A huge snow storm is set to cause widespread disruption across the UK this weekend as an Atlantic weather system moves in from the west.Met Office increases snow alert with forecast warning of worse to come
The UK Met Office has issued an amber Severe Weather Warning today as it forecasts a week-long polar blast of sub-zero temperatures.Greentomatocars adds Renault Fluence all-electric car to fleet
Low carbon London car hire company, Greentomatocars, is going greener with the addition of the first fully electric vehicles (EV) to its fleet.Met Office warns of further storms and snow
The UK Met Office has issued severe weather warnings across many parts of the UK for the next two days, including gale forces winds and sleet and snow in some parts.
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