Zach has been a keen environmentalist since he was at primary school. Now he is doing his GCSEs at Dorothy Stringer school, he has developed quite a reputation as a force to be reckoned with.
He helps run an “Eco-Check” scheme at school, visiting classrooms at lunchtime to check which teachers have turned off lights and computers and measuring the power consumption. This check is followed up with a name and …

Started by husband and wife team Chris and Jo Bowley, Green2Blue is a plumbing service with a difference. The main driver behind the company is green living; turning old inefficient kitchens and bathrooms into sparkly new ones that help rather than hinder the environment.
Green2Blue came into being when Chris retired from his career in the army and the couple moved back to the UK. A period of service in …

Catriona Fletcher is an ordinary working mum with three teenagers. From her garden she watches an incinerator rising from the banks of the River Ouse on the edge of the South Downs National Park. A constant reminder of where local and non-local unwanted stuff will end up after 2012.
She first came to Sussex from Sydney in 1992 and was horrified at the lack of recycling facilities and the ignorance …

Many people assume that their sash windows have never opened properly, and have always rattled and needed newspaper stuffed down the frame to stop draughts, but they can’t afford new double glazed sash units. This company aims to return their windows to better than original condition using new products and techniques, as well as traditional joinery methods.
The founder, Dan Sadler, used to work in the aviation business and was becoming …

Year 10 Liam Russell has been in the Eco Club at Dorothy Stringer since he first joined the school in 2007. At Eco Club, Liam is involved with coppicing maple trees and woodland working days. He says: “it’s all in the school grounds so we deal with the management of the forest. We recently did the butterfly haven, planting all the wild flowers for it.”
He started attending Eco Club because …

Nourish’s near eight acres of land at Stanmer Park not only provides food to its community café, but also vocational and life skills to disadvantaged adults and team building opportunities for local businesses.
The community farm, now over 10 years old, is split into growing fields, woodland, gardens and a sales yard, with each part of the social enterprise acting as a hands-on training ground to help adults facing exclusion or …

Bright Green Homes LLP specialises in the eco-renovation and refurbishment of domestic properties. Offering a full service, from initial consultation: including a home energy survey and energy use analysis demonstrating household energy consumption and tailored suggestions of ways householders can green their home through DIY measures, all the way through to the design of an integrated best-fit solution for their home, completing planning & building regulations, project management and commissioning …

Gill’s Home and Garden is a one stop store in the heart of Hove. As well as all the usual things you would expect in a hardware store like buckets and brushes, they are are also Brighton and Hove’s only city centre garden centre. They also cut keys, sharpen knifes, sell organic Sussex veg boxes, and sell Ecover refills. All their logs and charcoal are from environmentally sustainable sources within Sussex …

Platinum Estates estate agents in Crawley first became interested in environmental issue two years ago. Managers were looking for a company car for all staff to use. They decided on the iconic hybrid Toyota Prius.
Heather O’Conner says: “We have green recycle paper bins through out the office and we also sourced recycled paper for all our headed stationary.”
Platinum Estates actively helps tenants on benefits have their homes insulated using the …

Mind Your Own Mess is no ordinary cleaning service. Not only does it use eco-friendly cleaning products, so you to put your feet up without guilt, it’ll even massage them while they’re up there. Well, perhaps not your feet specifically, but the rest of your body anyway.
Partnering with Brighton-based Bloom Therapies, Mind Your Own Mess offers a unique Clean and Spa Package, allowing you to enjoy a three-hour luxury body …