Project Dirt website is cleaning up

Monday, 01 March 2010

TWO environmentally-minded mates are celebrating after the green website they set up 18 months ago has blossomed.

Project Dirt got its 2,000th member this week making it London’s biggest environmental networking site.

Mark Shearer and Nick Gardner set up the website after bemoaning the fact that being green and recycling was quite hard to do.

At Project Dirt, people can get tips on everything on there from energy companies and draught-busting groups, to conservation initiatives and food-growing projects or to set up their own project for others to get involved with.

Mark, a chartered surveyor, of Beauchamp Road, Battersea, said: “We wanted to green-up our lifestyles, but didn’t know where to start.

“There’s lots of information on the web already, but it’s confusing and often wrong.

“I wanted to talk to someone local who had done what I was planning to take on.

"When we realised there was no easy way of finding and contacting these people, we set up Project Dirt.

“You can learn about bee-keeping from Iris at Devonshire Road Nature Reserve in Forest Hill or look into the progress of Chris at ASSA, a local energy initiative in Stockwell. The list goes on.”

Mark said the next step was to attract people outside London.

Visit www.projectdirt.com for more information.

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