Hotel set for its greenest season yet
A Lake District hotel which has gone green is preparing for its busiest time of the year. Overwater Hall at Ireby near Bassenthwaite Lake receives most of its guests during September and October – and has been extending the eco-friendly measures which it says are proving popular with holidaymakers.
Borough mayor goes green
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Fancy a Peter Rabbit garden?
Bosses at one of Cumbria’s most famous tourist attractions are drawing up plans for a new organic garden.
Your guide to what you can recycle and where
All recycling facilities for north, west and east Cumbria - together with what you can recycle at them - are listed here in our handy guide
So we’re being asked to recycle everything... what happens then?
As the threats to our environment grow more and more worrying, most people accept the importance of measures such as conserving energy and recycling rubbish.
Meet the three Rs of rubbish... reducing, reusing and recycling
Resource Cumbria is the county’s waste partnership between the seven local authorities – the six districts and boroughs and the county council. It is responsible for dealing with all of the county’s household rubbish, of which more than 260,000 tonnes were created last year
Get all your electricity from nature
Householders in Cumbria are being offered the opportunity to buy all their electricity from green sources
Green energy can bring 1,500 jobs
Up to 1,500 new jobs could be created to boost the Cumbrian economy by branching into forms of renewable energy production
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