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Greenrock is hoping a commitment to tackling climate change will be part of the Government’s upcoming Throne Speech. The environmental organisation has also outlined six areas of importance including marine conservation, tackling litter and an updat...

Bermuda College has hosted its Trashion Show, in which students turn trash into treasure. AMY HARVEY, the organiser, talked to Young Observer about the event. Tell us a bit about the Trashion Show at Bermuda College? The Trashion show is intended t...

The Bermuda College and West Pembroke School were both awarded Green Flags yesterday at the second annual Eco-Schools Award Ceremony. Meanwhile several other schools, including the Lyceum Preschool, Warwick Academy and Victor Scott Primary, were reco...

Bermuda must focus on the long-term sustainability of its infrastructure or face serious problems in the future, environmental charity Greenrock has warned. The organisation’s director Jonathan Starling, along with shadow environment minister Dennis...

Earth Day festivities brought song and dance to the grounds of City Hall yesterday. “Let us embrace our commitment to the generations to come by leaving them a safe and clean world on which to make their mark,” said environment minister Jeanne Atherd...

Young Observer met up with the Heron Bay Eco Club last week. The students have just completed a waste audit at their school and are now composting throughout the school in preparation for starting a garden. Abbie Caldas of Greenrock told us: “Heron B...

Homes and businesses across Bermuda switched their lights off from 8.30pm to 9.30pm on Saturday night to mark Earth Hour. Environmental charity Greenrock helped to organise a five-kilometre glow fun run and walk through Hamilton, as well as a night-...

Efforts to raise awareness about energy conservation and sustainability are being marked by an island-wide blackout next month. Greenrock has again initiated the island’s 9th annual Earth Hour, due to take place on March 19 from 8.30pm to 9.30pm. Hea...

Sustainable development must remain central on the road to fiscal sustainability, according to Greenrock. Described as one of three “mega-trends”, Bob Richards partially credited the drop in oil prices to the island’s recovering economy, in his Budge...

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children” — Navajo proverb An international programme from the Foundation for Environmental Education, the Eco-Schools initiative aims to empower students to be the change our su...

Abbie Caldas, the schools programme manager for Greenrock, invited Young Observer to join her at West Pembroke Primary School to learn about what it means and why schools are striving to become Eco-Schools in Bermuda. In its 20th year around the wor...

Environmentalist groups have welcomed the Bermuda Government’s stated aim to move towards “least cost, high quality and sustainable” electricity. This week, the Bermuda Government tabled the Electricity Bill, which will open up the Island’s power gen...