This April the fantastic UK AWARE exhibition will be taking place at London Olympia. UK AWARE is the UK's only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition, which invites normal people to come together, with a view to making a difference to climate change.
As a largely social enterprise UK AWARE unites businesses, organisations and individuals and gives them a forum to share advice on living and working more sustainably, without having to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort.
Various products and services are exhibited over the 2 day event all of which showcase ways to help to live a greener lifestyle. Areas covered include all sorts, from sustainable fashion and beauty to green motor-vehicles. And it isnt just small, independent businesses choosing to take advantage of this eco-opportunity. More established companies and charities, including BT and Actionaid, are also on hand to advise the 15,000 visitors expected to attend the event.
This year visitors will be treated to all manner of ingenious innovations and developments, including Hubcap Creatures (sculptures made from recycled hubcaps), Bubblehouse Worms (wormfarms that promote global worming), Twinkes (futuristic light electric/pedal powered mobiles) and many more.
UK AWARE is now in its third year and, as the UK's only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition it has thrived where all others have failed. As such it attracts both visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. So the issue they faced was where to put them all...
UK AWARE are the first to admit that hotels are notoriously bad for the environment but the Campaign Against Climate Change also bemoans the situation. In 2007 they reported that hotels were responsible for around 2% of the UKs carbon emissions. Just thinking about the amount of energy wasted on air conditioning, in hotel kitchens and thanks to the enormous amounts of laundry a hotel gets through is enough to make your eyes water.
Many hotel chains are trying to rectify things but progress is relatively slow. So the organisers of UK AWARE have put forward an alternative solution for out-of-towners who are keen to attend the event, Crashpadding. They suggest that people visit Crashpadder.com to find accommodation that is not only eco-friendly but budget-friendly too.
The basic premise of Crashpadder along with other sites like it is that it is preferable to stay with a friendly local in their spare room than to book a bed in an uncomfortable hostel or an over-priced, environmentally unsound hotel.
The science behind it is pretty simple, while hotels have to maintain rooms and services that are often left unoccupied and wasted, peoples homes are always in use and as such it makes very little difference to the environment to pop an extra person under the same roof.
The principle of opening your home to strangers in the spirit of good will and collaboration obviously ties in with the principles of UK AWARE. Both are hoping to make the world a better and friendlier place, and allow us to move through it in as positive a way as we possibly can.
To find out more about the UK AWARE event, arrange tickets or even book an exhibition slot for your business or organisation why not visit the UK AWARE website, www.ukaware.com.
As a largely social enterprise UK AWARE unites businesses, organisations and individuals and gives them a forum to share advice on living and working more sustainably, without having to sacrifice lifestyle or comfort.
Various products and services are exhibited over the 2 day event all of which showcase ways to help to live a greener lifestyle. Areas covered include all sorts, from sustainable fashion and beauty to green motor-vehicles. And it isnt just small, independent businesses choosing to take advantage of this eco-opportunity. More established companies and charities, including BT and Actionaid, are also on hand to advise the 15,000 visitors expected to attend the event.
This year visitors will be treated to all manner of ingenious innovations and developments, including Hubcap Creatures (sculptures made from recycled hubcaps), Bubblehouse Worms (wormfarms that promote global worming), Twinkes (futuristic light electric/pedal powered mobiles) and many more.
UK AWARE is now in its third year and, as the UK's only green and ethical lifestyle exhibition it has thrived where all others have failed. As such it attracts both visitors and exhibitors from far and wide. So the issue they faced was where to put them all...
UK AWARE are the first to admit that hotels are notoriously bad for the environment but the Campaign Against Climate Change also bemoans the situation. In 2007 they reported that hotels were responsible for around 2% of the UKs carbon emissions. Just thinking about the amount of energy wasted on air conditioning, in hotel kitchens and thanks to the enormous amounts of laundry a hotel gets through is enough to make your eyes water.
Many hotel chains are trying to rectify things but progress is relatively slow. So the organisers of UK AWARE have put forward an alternative solution for out-of-towners who are keen to attend the event, Crashpadding. They suggest that people visit Crashpadder.com to find accommodation that is not only eco-friendly but budget-friendly too.
The basic premise of Crashpadder along with other sites like it is that it is preferable to stay with a friendly local in their spare room than to book a bed in an uncomfortable hostel or an over-priced, environmentally unsound hotel.
The science behind it is pretty simple, while hotels have to maintain rooms and services that are often left unoccupied and wasted, peoples homes are always in use and as such it makes very little difference to the environment to pop an extra person under the same roof.
The principle of opening your home to strangers in the spirit of good will and collaboration obviously ties in with the principles of UK AWARE. Both are hoping to make the world a better and friendlier place, and allow us to move through it in as positive a way as we possibly can.
To find out more about the UK AWARE event, arrange tickets or even book an exhibition slot for your business or organisation why not visit the UK AWARE website, www.ukaware.com.