Visit Entrading!

Entrading may just be the UK’s first environmentally sound high street shop / cafe, and it’s certainly the brightest and best addition to Glasgow’s shopping streets.

Located on the corner of Hope St and West Regent Street it carries a wide range of recycled, low energy, eco-friendly products, and after browsing the shelves you can enjoy coffee and cake (or even falafel) in the cafe.

My personal highlights were the recycled glass cufflinks, the chair made from a shopping trolley, and the cardboard fort.

Can the Carbon

GLASGOW AND WEST GREEN PARTY MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release, Monday 12th March

GLASGOW GREENS CALL ON CITY TO “CAN THE CARBON”

Glasgow City Council needs to commit to reducing their total carbon emissions by at least 4.5% a year to help avoid the flooding, storm damage and environmental poverty which climate change will herald.

Abandoning the M74 extension, improving cycle and walking routes and investing in community renewables are all measures which could see the Council meeting these targets.

Today (Monday 12th March) the Scottish Green Party launched their “Climate Crisis” document [1], setting out twelve steps to a low-carbon Scottish economy.

Green MSP for Glasgow, Patrick Harvie, said: “We want Glasgow to take measures now to avoid disaster in the future. The Council needs to assess their carbon impact and set their own targets within the national emission limits. They should monitor the energy efficiency of their own premises and increase renewable energy generation.”

Patrick Harvie, MSP and Rosemary Burnett, Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Glasgow visited Entrading, a shop dedicated to the sale of environmentally friendly goods in West Regent Street to deliver a copy of the pamphlet and to purchase eco-friendly products for the election campaign. [2]

Martha Wardrop, prospective council candidate for the Green Party in Hillside Ward, said: “Electing Green councillors on May 3rd will help to ensure that Glasgow City Council takes seriously its duty to reduce carbon emissions. We want to see more use of microrenewables by households, and investment in initiatives like the Castlemilk community-owned windfarm. Council support for these kind of initiatives is vital if we are to avoid climate chaos.”

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For more information: Rosemary Burnett -07931 458 001 or 0141 331 2402

Notes

1. See www.scottishgreens.org

2. Visit at 11am, Entrading, 88 West Regent Street, Glasgow

Vote Green 2007