Feeling Good 2: The Science and Economics of Wellbeing in Interiors

  The Feeling Good series examines how a growing body of scientific research can add value to the interiors industry, promote human wellbeing and have a positive effect on the client’s finances. Evidence Based Design (EBD), now well accepted in healthcare architecture, analyses how a well conceived physical environment can promote wellbeing. Every party within [...]

Working Tool: Green Search Engine

Ecocho is a Yahoo-powered search engine that is working to help fight climate change. For every 1,000 searches made, the company plants two trees. To date, the company has planted more than 7,500 trees and helped neutralize nearly 4,000,000 kilos of CO2. Sustrans (the cycling awareness and promotion charity) have also launched their own search [...]

Energy Saving System

Chapman Ventilation is a specialist design and build ventilation and air conditioning company, working entirely in the leisure and fine dining sectors.  Recently they have created an energy saving operating system, which in broad terms does the following: Cuts Restaurant energy costs by 20% Pays for itself between 9 and 18 months Can be retrospectively fitted [...]

Printer cartridges Re-fill and Re-use

According to hpprintercartridges.co.uk the following facts are true: If the empty cartridges that people throw away each year were stacked end to end they would be able to circle the earth – that’s over 38,400 kilometres! Printer Ink is dearer than Space Shuttle Fuel!!   It’s true……. More than 30 million inkjet cartridges are dumped each [...]