Green energy systems are essential in securing our energy supply and protecting the environment, according to a new report from Lloyd's 360 Risk Insight and UK think tank Chatham House.

Recycling expert Tidy Planet has won a contract to provide a new Rocket Composter to Warwickshire County Council for its office complex in Warwick, with the company already having the machines in place at its offices in Shire Hall and in five schools throughout the region. 

The Offshore Valuation Group (OVG) recently published a report suggesting that Britain has immensely valuable renewable resources.

The Prince of Wales is leading a plan to combat deforestation in Indonesia.

The UK can only achieve healthy economic growth and job creation by boosting its high tech capabilities and innovation across the economy, according to a new report published by NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts.

It was once believed that the oceans and seas were so immense we could never use up all the resources they had to offer. However, we are finding out the hard way that this just isn't the case.

View the work of one of the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year judges, Ronnie Israel, who is exhibiting, along with other celebrated photographers, at an exhibition of the 'River Thames - Source to Sea' showing until 30 September in the West Walkway of Tower Bridge.  For further details visit www.towerbridge.org.uk.

One of the world's fastest growing photographic competitions, CIWEM's Environmental Photographer of the Year, is drawing to a close with entries only accepted until 5.00pm on 31 July 2010.

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The green economy in British Columbia (BC) could be worth more than CAD$27billion (approximately £17billion) by 2020, according to an independent study by the GLOBE Foundation of Canada.