Activities include: 

Eco-friendly housing architecture and designs

            Sustainable housing designs from the architect’s drawing- board; see inside an ‘earth house’ & ‘straw bale-built house’;

Fuel efficient homes

Home insulation advice and grants information, tips on how reduce your fuel bills

Energy-resourcing technologies

            Exhibitions of solar-panels, wind turbines, water-power, heat exchangers, geo-thermal technology and much more

Recycling

            Ideas to ‘slim-your-bin’ by reusing, repairing and recycling more. New technologies for making useable products from waste. 

Greener Gardening

            Greener garden designs; home composting, tools and tips for self-sufficiency in the garden

Building Design

Ø      Dick Strawbridge, star of BBC series ‘It’s not easy being green’ on his family’s journey towards eco-friendly living

Ø      Will Anderson (Independent Newspaper Columnist) on his Eco-Building Project

Ø      The Alternative Building Company on environmentally sustainable design

Ø      Adrian Schofield, Architect, with environmentally-sustainable building designs and advice

Ø      The Eco-Experience with air-cleansing equipment for the home

Ø      Worcestershire County Council with advice on design for sustainability

Energy Resourcing

Ø      Worcester Bosch displaying and advising on solar energy systems

Ø      Energy 4 Life Ltd on geothermal energy and a scale model of a house with near zero carbon emissions

Ø      Green Earth Energy Ltd, specialists in environmentally-friendly electrical and solar power installations (solar thermal, photo-voltaics, heat pumps and wind power systems)

Ø      Domestic & General Insulation Ltd with advice and guidance on energy resourcing

Ø      Encraft with a sustainable energy dolls house

Ø      Greenpeace on decentralised energy systems

Energy Efficiency

Ø      Tango Group with energy efficiency products to view and purchase

Ø      Kingspan Insulation on reducing energy losses and cutting energy bills

Ø      The Warwickshire Energy Advice Centre – information and advice on various energy saving techniques

Ø      Festival Housing with advice on energy efficiency in housing

Waste Minimisation & Recycling

Ø      The County Council Recycling Bus – full of ideas and advice to reduce household waste

Ø      Severn Trent on saving water and cutting water bills

Ø      Malvern Hills District Council – advice from a top performing local authority on waste minimisation and recycling

Environmentally Friendly living

Ø      Bridget Strawbridge on practical ideas for ‘Everyday Green Living’ 

Ø      Pro Eco Ltd with environmentally friendly products

Ø      Green and Easy with more environmentally friendly products

Green Gardening

Ø      Caves Folly Ltd, landscape gardeners with ideas for a greener garden

Ø      Worcester County Council on Composting

Other Attractions

Ø      Yurt

Ø      Film about Global Warming: ‘An Inconvenient Truth’

Ø      Quiz on ‘What is your Green Footprint’?

Ø      Competition for Malvern Hills Schools to design useful products from waste materials

Ø      Refreshments by Green Link, Malvern