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Deepdale Backpackers and Camping, Deepdale Farm, Burnham Deepdale, north Norfolk coast

www.deepdalefarm.co.uk/earthday
Tuesday 22nd April
10am to 4pm
FREE to attend

Deepdale Backpackers and Camping, at Deepdale Farm on the beautiful north Norfolk coast, is an eco friendly backpackers hostel and campsite.

On Earth Day 2008, 22nd April, Deepdale Backpackers and Camping will be hosting a whole range of eco friendly organisations for an Earth Day exhibition about the environment, including environmental technology installers, advisors, pressure groups and other related organisations.

Whether you are looking for solar panels, wood chip boiler, LED lights, ground source heat pump, wind turbine, need some advice about how to green up your home or business, want to know more about organics or just fancy a look around Deepdale’s eco-friendly facilities, you are more than welcome.

It doesn’t matter if you are already interested in the environment, want to become more eco friendly or you’re a sceptic.

Who should visit this exhibition:

• Businesses looking to green up their organisation
• Companies wanting to save money on services
• Architects and builders wanting to learn about more eco friendly building materials and techniques
• Farmers looking to diversify and needing some inspiration
• and of course
• Individuals who would like to make their homes more energy efficient

Plans are still being confirmed, so check back soon for more information.

Exhibitors include (but are not limited to):

Earthly Ideas
Diversification, Environmental and Marketing Advice

Deepdale Backpackers and Camping
Eco friendly hostel and camping accommodation on the beautiful north Norfolk coast

Solarworks
Solarworks Ltd have been installing solar hot water and pool heating systems throughout East Anglia for 25 years. Grants available

Energy Saving Trust Advice Centre Anglia
Free independent energy saving advice for domestic households on energy efficiency, renewable technologies, and sustainable transport

British Wild Flower Plants
Specialist Wild flower nursery supplying over 400 native plants with known provenance including green roof and grey water treatment plants.

CPRE Norfolk
The Campaign to Protect Rural England have led research on Green Buildings in Norfolk - booklets, exhibitions, presentations and tours - come and find out more about the campaign.

Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Working to protect and promote Norfolk’s wildlife, helping people identify what they can do to help wildlife in their areas. They will be a sustainability quiz for people to do, resources to buy and free wildlife advice on offer.

RSPB
The RSPB speaks out for birds and wildlife, tackling the problems that threaten our environment. Nature is amazing - help us keep it that way.

If you would like to exhibit or to find out more information about exhibitors please visit: www.deepdalefarm.co.uk/earthday

San Francisco, 12th – 13th June 2008
Red 7 Media have launched the Green Event Summit EXPO which is the the first national conference in the USA which brings together executives from the event and trade show sector.  One of the objectives is to learn about creating eco-friendly events.

STC-10 - Turks & Caicos Islands April 28-May 1, 2008

Dear Caribbean Tourism Business Partner:

You are invited to register now for the 10th annual Caribbean Tourism Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-10) scheduled to be held April 28 to May 1, on Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. Against the backdrop of 2008 being designated the International Year of the Reef, the theme for the Conference is “Sustaining the Caribbean Coastal Product”.

STC-10 will, in addition to examining the issues of coral reef protection and management, examine a number of related costal tourism development issues, including climate change, cruise tourism, natural disasters, the dive market and strategies for managing marine sites and attractions.

The Conference will also provide an opportunity for the emulation of best practices and the Turks and Caicos Islands promises exciting study tours which will serve to demonstrate pitfalls as well as successes in coastal tourism development.

We have an impressive line-up of speakers committed to participating in the program, including world renowned environmentalist, David Suzuki, to Keynote the conference.

Please log on to www.onecaribbean.org for registration, sponsorship and additional information on STC-10. Pay particular attention to the Hotel reservation form. Rooms are limited, so hurry!

The Glastonbury Festival is probably the most well know music festivals in the UK, which attracts over 120,000 people. The Festival is held on a working farm and to reduce injury to the hooves of cattle visitors to the 2008 Festival are being asked to use bio-degradable tent pegs made out of potatoes.

Tuesday 22nd April
10am to 4pm
FREE to attend

Deepdale Backpackers and Camping at Deepdale Farm on the beautiful north Norfolk coast, is an eco-friendly backpackers hostel and campsite.

On Earth Day 2008, 22nd April, Deepdale Backpackers and Camping will be hosting a whole range of eco-friendly organisations for an exhibition of environmental technologies.

Businesses and the general public are welcome to visit Deepdale for FREE to meet installers, look around the facilities at Deepdale Farm or enjoy an Earth Day BBQ of local food and drink (£7 per person).

Stands at the Deepdale Earth Day event cost £25. There is the opportunity to be inside in one of the two barns or outside. Stall holders need to bring their own tables and chairs.

To find out more about the event or to book an exhibition space please visit: http://www.deepdalefarm.co.uk/earthday

Carbon Footyprint is a campaign which has recently been launched by E.ON of the UK’s largest energy suppliers. The campaign aims to reduce the carbon footprint of the FA Cup over the 2007 / 2009 season. Over 7,000 pledges have been made by people visiting the website.

Events play an important role in tourist destinations, they:

• Create an additional reason to visit
• Appeal to different audiences
• Help to extend the tourist season
• Generate secondary spend etc

Well if you are planning to run an event British Standards (BSI) have just launched an sustainable events guide.

The South Africa Solar Challenge 2008 is a 4,175km race in South Africa. The South Africa Solar Challenge 2008 is sanctioned by the FIA, South African Government and is a registered event with Motorsport South Africa and the International Solarcar Federation. The event winners will be issued with championship point, towards the World First World Ranking of Solar Cars.

The South African Solar Challenge 2008 is an epic, two-week race in solar-powered cars through the length and breadth of South Africa. Teams will have to build their own cars, design their own engineering systems and race those same machines through the most demanding terrain that solar cars have ever seen.

On 28 September 2008, more than 40 cars of strange shapes and designs will take off from Johannesburg and make their way to Cape Town, then drive along the coast to Durban, before climbing the steep Drakensburg Mountains on their way back to the finish line in Johannesburg two weeks later.

The Advanced Energy Foundation (AEF) is a registered Section 21 company (non-profit organization). The main objective of the foundation is to promote, initiate and run programs and initiatives that advance technological development in transportation and energy management. The primary event on the calendar of AEF is to run the South African Solar Challenge, agreements are currently in place for this to be done for 2008, 2010 and 2012. Excess funds raised will be used in the provision of Grants and Bursaries through the AEF.

After returning from working on the World Solar Challenge (www.wsc.org.za) in Australia, we now have a much better understanding of the event, the participants and also how to correctly take the technology from car, into the communities.

To find out more information visit South Africa Solar Challenge’s website.

Photos of the Jaycar Sunswift.

Something different - the Zero Rally which crosses Zambia, Namibia and South Africa is being promoted as a ‘carbon neutral rally.’

Importantly the event is open to electric, solar, hybrid, hydrogen and bio-fuel vehicles! When the rally has finished a world conference and exhibition on renewable energy will be held in Cape Town. To find out more click here.

Talking about hybrid cars – the Toyota Prius has sold more than 800,000 units and celebrates its tenth birthday in 2007.

The 2012 London Olympic flame is going to carbon neutral. A spokeswomen for London 2012 commented: “We want London 2012 to be a truly sustainable Games. Using a low-carbon fuel to light the Olympic flame and keep it burning throughout the Games is one of the many things we are looking at right now to deliver a ‘green games’.” London 2012 are currently trying to source a suitable fuel!