Over our 27 years, we have never been what you might describe as an everyday insurance company. For starters, we are named by The Good Shopping Guide as Britain’s most ethical insurance company – and that’s in part because we are founded on a commitment to safeguard our environment. From day one, our support for the environment has been global,…
Walk to School Week is an initiative very close to our hearts. The very first Walk to School week was in 1995 and involved five primary schools taking part in our very own Green Transport Week. Since then the event has grown and grown. It has had to; a generation ago, 70% of us walked to school – now it’s less…
Between 1934 and 1940 Britain’s Ministry of Transport built at least 280-miles of segregated cycleways, usually on both sides of the new arterial roads springing up all over the country at that time. The photograph above shows one such Dutch-style cycling facility that was built in Manchester in 1937. Some of these cycleways still exist, but languish unused because either they…
In arctic climates, the sauna has a powerful cultural significance as place for warmth and reflection. It’s the reason the artists Bigert & Bergström have created this egg-shaped version at Luossabacken in Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost town, to highlight a serious local environmental issue. Kiruna is currently being sacrificed so that a mining company can extract iron ore from beneath the…
The Shiki-Shima is a modern day interpretation of the Orient Express – a luxury train that’s been built to explore the beauty of Japan in levels of comfort that will seem the stuff of fantasy to commuter rail passengers. The East Japan Railway Company has already sold out for its luxury journeys travelling from Tokyo to eastern areas on the…
28/04/17
