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clean, green and gorgeous hits Bodmin

How cleaning need not be a cardinal sin against the environment...

carbon site visits

to come!

Our Land Live Wire

Our Land Live Wire is live!

clean green and gorgeous hits Newquay

The Importance of Having Good Props....

clean, green and gorgeous in Penzance

Desiging out pollution with a new cleaning habit...

Cornwall Outstanding (AONB) Walks

What an amazing day!

cornwall opens uk solar centre

UK to open solar centre as solar capacity looks set to enter global top 20

Groundwater protection: Principles and practice update

Managing your environmental legal responsibilities...made easy.

walking into a resource crunch?

Sleepwalking is an over-rated way of running our businesses....

coast towel card

CoaST member towel card. Saves money, water, detergent, waste and, crucially, gives an easy way for visitors to participate in our efforts. And they work. Now in Cornwall, Devon and "anywhere" flavours!

talking sustainability with employees

getting the sustainability conversation going....

how much do we really pay in subsidies for renewables?

The real price of renewable subsidy is £2 per year, says the Renewable Energy Association...

Cornwall Green Doors

Bristol started this! But we love it - a rolling programme of CoaSTies who throw open their doors to share their smart green expertise....

water framework what?

Water Framework? Directive? Wossat? It's a new bit of law. From the EU. And it'll help us clean up our waters....

West Cornwall and Clay Business Grant now open

West Cornwall and Clay Business Grant now open for applications from micro businesses in the area....

love food hate waste

Throwing food AWAY? We must have lost our minds. Did you EVER do that as a child??

101 things to do on a rainy day

This website, developed by CoaST Ambassador Bedknobs B&B, provides a guide to wet weather activities in Cornwall. They Just Did It. :)

survival of the fittest

Tourism Minister launches White Paper..sustainable tourism is GO...

tamar valley champions

One Valley. A thousand stories...

greentraveller.co.uk

Green travel. From start. To finish. We love' em.

communicating climate change with businesses...

Great research programme on cliamte change data and how businesses react to it....

carbon monoxide poisoning

carbon monoxide poisoning

flood water impacts beaches, too

Marine Conservation Society warns of impact on beaches of flood run off

green car guide

2012 is being hailed as the year of the green car. Wise Up navigates you through what's on offer under the Government's Plug-in Car Grant...

Best of Both Worlds

We can offer the best of both worlds when it comes to networking, too...

south west and midlands now in drought

Official drought zones have been declared in a further 17 English counties, as a warning came that water shortages could last until Christmas.

the sweetie jar is nearly empty, guys...

The (old style) party is over. The era of cheap and abundant resources is ending. Are you ready?

university of exeter

We work with the University of Exeter in various ways...

the future is green, George!

drought measures announced

Hosepipe bans are now in place in the east of England...

green start action plan

The Green Start resource can help you put together your action plan for your business - simples!

solar fits cost half what was thought

do you know what the Green deal is?

New green building regulations to drive demand for Green Deal

green light for electric vans

Green grant to cut the cost of electric vans by £8000....

lloyds on-line sustainability tool

Lloyds bank has its own on-line sustainability tool.

carbon calculator for tourism businesses and households

A fantastic new web tool to measure your business's and household's carbon footprint

tamar valley: food and farming valley style

There's a fantastic new project developing in the Tamar Valley. Just loads and loads of common sense.....

bring on the batteries

This man just got up and solved the problem.

six top tips for getting your message across

Here are six super simple tips for getting that message across...

carbon benchmarking in hotels taking off

Leading hoteliers are working to develop common standards to calculate and report on the international tourism industry’s carbon emissions with the aim of having the first ones in place by early 2012.

Good Energy holds steady on prices

Good Energy is keeping its prices steady. Now that's definitely a Good Thing.

hotels are getting canny about carbon

Carbon is moving fast up hoteliers' agendas....

good energy

Good Energy. Just what it suggests. And it's got our backing.

template how to get here

this is how we tell our visitors to get to our office

steppa project

We are working on an European project called STEPPA comparing sustainable tourism practices in protected areas in Europe

transport cornwall

This carries some useful links to great sites - many of which you can carry on your own site

slow travel

Have you ever come home more exhausted than you were before you left? Say no more... have a look at these links to those fantastic slow travel movements who can help you help your visitors travel in a more relaxing pace.

templates

CoaST members are an astonishing resource of good practice and they send in their good practice examples to show other members what seems to work for them.

footprinting

many issues confront Cornwall's tourism industry: seasonality, wages, staffing and loss of tourism accommodation to name a few....

water efficiency

There are a heap of small actions, gadgets and calculators you can use to reduce the amount of water you use.

carbon roundtable

A programme being currently run by the University of Exeter, this provides space for leaders and open innovators to come together and start to crack the carbon conundrum. Helmets will be provided.

carbon off-setting

Offsetting your carbon is a way of trying to make up for the carbon you do use, that you cannot physically reduce any further. It's not supposed to just make you feel better.

carbon benchmarking

This is essentially a way to figure out where you sit compared to other businesses like you, in terms of your carbon appetite.

carbon management

This is how to manage the amount of carbon you use, and make a plan to use less each year. In a nutshell. And the canny among us are all starting to do it.

trading for people and planet

Great ideas for investing in your community...add your own!

campsite campaign

We work closely with the Environment Agency to help campsites tackle a whole heap of issues.

cornwall sustainable building trust

CSBT have been operating for some years and have barrow loads of information, advice and guidance.

carbon footprint

There are many carbon calculators; household, business, on and off line.

coast linen card

CoaST has designed a linen card to go with its sister towel card

coast consultancy services

From dipping your little toe into the waters of sustainable tourism, to your first lengths, to full on open ocean breaststroke. We can help you with the kit, the swimming costume, and the training programme.

one planet tourism network

This is where you are right now. This is the centre of what we do; the pivot of all our activity.

coast hosts

One of the ways we communicate with our members is by running CoaST Hosts - gatherings at a CoaST member property, to build in good opportunities to talk face to face, to celebrate achievement, hear new ideas, and plan the next ones.

green edge training

CoaST is fully certified and has it own stifferkits to deliver the Green Edge training on behalf of Welcome to Excellence.

sustainable tourism case studies

Some fantastic real life case studies of businesses walking - or sprinting -  the talk...

community energy plus

Community Energy Plus have been operating in Cornwall for over ten years - and these are THE energy anoraks...and know all the other energy anoraks across the south west - so start here.

green build case studies

CSBT is the Cornwall Sustainable Buidlings Trust, and that's exactly what they do.

rezolve

These guys are THE waste Anoraks in Cornwall. They know more about waste than is strictly good for you. Which makes them galactically useful.

go real

Go Real is the UK Real Nappy Campaign, run by ReZolve from Cornwall. And if you didn't know anything about nappies, you've come to the right place...

leadership

In CoaST speak, though, not the sort of leadership that involves elbowing your way to the top as fast as humanly possible ensuring at all times that one is seen to be better than the rest. .

compost caddies are cool

Just think how many tea-bags our land has to absorb every summer...

st petroc's society

St Petroc's is a Cornish organisation working with single homeless people, which could well use unwanted materials that could come from a tourism business refurbishment - bedding, furniture, toiletries.

cornwall reuse and recycling

If you want to know who has what, takes what, recycles what, and where it goes, this is the place to go. Just a click away.

greenwash

A Bad Thing. Like whitewash, only worse.

chefs' charter

We believe that good food, good company and happy times go hand in hand with really considerate use of the energy, water, waste and people that go into making them. We’re doing our bit – and then we’ll do even more!

bedknobs lighting energy audit

CoaST Ambassador Bedknobs is sharing its Lighting Audit Spreadsheet....

sw-ecowarehouse.co.uk

Online resource of suppliers for all eco-build projects. Bingo.

europarc charter

CoaST is collaborating with the Cornwall AONB and has succesfully secured the Cornwall EUROPARC Charter.

climate change case studies

Real weather, real businesses, real adaptation to a changing world.

coast visitor charter

The CoaST Visitor Charter (5 Ways to be the Best Sort of Visitor) is dead simple.

certification: green acorn award scheme

SECTA's Green Acorn Award Scheme

climate south west

Climate South West provides tourism specific support on adapting to climatic changes

certification: green tourism business scheme

GTBS is the Green Tourism Business Scheme. 

carbon literacy

It's the new metric, the  stuff in our pencils, the fizz in our drinks, what makes us all human and what we breathe out. It's a Good Thing, and has Made Our Lives Great. But we have to treat it right.