Welcome to our blog where we invite you to read about biodiversity, climate, and environmental related subjects.
Gardening is a great pastime that provides light physical exercise and relief from stress. It helps to keep you healthy in body and mind. It can also be a source of fresh vegetables, fruit and herbs all of which can add to its health benefits.
A SSSI is a formal conservation designation. Typically it describes an area that is home to a rare species of flora or fauna, unique geological, or even special physiological features that make it of particular interest to science and conservation.
GreenTheUK has seen an incredible rise in the number of companies choosing to give up their time to help local wildlife habitats. Across 20 days in 2024, 226 employees dedicated an accumulative 1,150 hours to volunteering with GreenTheUK and our charity partners.
Environmental education is something we care deeply about at GreenTheUK and we work with our partners around the country to deliver impactful and educational projects in schools every year.
Even though the ocean covers two thirds of the planet’s surface, a relatively small proportion of the global population have visited the ocean and experienced it. Many of us live inland; in the hustle and bustle of busy cities, in slower suburbia, or deep in the countryside.
Imagine trying to travel around Britain without our road and rail network. Or imagine if nine out of every ten miles of road just didn’t exist – life would be impossible!
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The Great British landscape is famous throughout the world for its rolling hills, rugged coastlines and luscious forests. But as with everything in life, when you’re surrounded by the same views, you can start to take them for granted and get stuck in a bit of a rut.
Having spent my childhood and academic career on the South Coast, I have developed a strong connection with the area and the natural beauty above and below the water.
You only need to take a walk through the supermarket to see these environmental buzzwords jumping out at you from the packaging on every shelf. We’re not just talking about food or household products.
If you’re reading this article, you may already be a GreenTheUK partner or you are seriously considering it. Whichever you are, you are undoubtedly concerned about the state of the natural world in the UK and interested in playing your part in restoring and protecting it.
It is almost impossible to get through a day as a human without trees. For as long as humans have been using tools, trees have given us food, fuel and shelter. A world without trees is a world without apples, wooden tables, cardboard boxes and log fires.
Just what green credentials does your favourite brand espouse? The chances are that even if you’re not completely sure about the answer to that question, you care more about it now than you might have done a decade or so ago.