What better time to take up cycling, dust off your old two wheel peddly and start riding to work/park/shops than Bike Week. This cycle lovers delight is the UK's biggest mass participation cycling event.

Bike Week encourages us to get fit, explore our local community and rediscover an alternative mode of transport - one many of us left in our childhoods.

The 13-21 June is the official Bike Week in which loads of bike related events are happening around the country. From free cycle safety checks, cycle fairs, off road adventures, races, time trials, commuter challenges and bike breakfasts you all have the opportunity to get involved in this very eco friendly mode of transport.

Fancy organising your own bike related event? Register it on the Bike Week website to get a whole lot of people along. The person who organises the most events during Bike Week will win a new Raleigh bike and helmet.

Happy cycling folks.

This rally is for all those people who love all things car and all things green (eco green that is). As part of the Love London Green Festival happening over the next two weeks, the Revolve Eco-Rally 2009 is all about bringing a little attention to the ‘best of' green vehicles currently out there.

On June 8 a convoy of low carbon vehicles will depart from Brighton on a voyage to London. From about 10am celebrities and environmentalists alike will make their way by bike, car and van to City Hall in London where they are expected to arrive from about 3.30pm.

The rally has been organised by Revolve, The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership and What Car? Revolve are an advisory council set up to ‘accelerate the market for efficient and sustainable transport technologies and fuels such as hybrids, batteries, biofuels, hydrogen and fuel cells through high profile events.' So the eco car rally is a perfect way to get our attention we think!

What Car? will also be hosting their annual Green Awards in the evening to announce the Green Car of the Year Award.

If you would like to show your support for the rally you can visit the Eco Rally website for the exact route.

Go little green cars!

The annual Love London Green Festival is coming up - the 4-28th of June to be exact. It's one of, if not THE, biggest green festival on the planet.

How can this be? Well, hundreds of events have been organised by communities and organisations from far and wide with the aim to sharing the best eco ideas to help build a more sustainable city.

What's on? A lot. Here's a few:

• An exhibition of the UK's best arts and sustainable development.

• Waste Free Picnics for schools

• Springwatch Plant Walk at Rainham Marshes

• Movers and Shakers Ride Redbridge Cycling Centre

• BeReCreative - a free, fun packed, family event is being held in London Fields on Saturday 6 June as part of national Recycle Now Week

• A free conference on how alternative building solutions can reduce CO2

• Revolve Eco-Rally - a green car rally starting in Brighton finishing at City Hall London

How can you get involved? It's not just the companies and event organisers who get to have all the fun. The Love London team are encouraging everyone to get involved with their own event - say a dress swap at home or a junk sculpting day for the kids. You can register your event on the website to be officially part of the festivities.

Cost? Most of the events are free, with some even helping those who want to save pennies as well as the environment. The Love London website has an eco-thrift page with tips and useful articles to get you started.

Each year, on June 5th, Word Environment Day (WED) is celebrated across the globe.

One year in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam WED was celebrated with the broadcast of an environmental radio soap opera. In Petit Valley, South America a three-day arts festival was organised including talks on alternative energy sources like hemp and bio-diesel, hikes to waterfalls and Brazilian dancers. In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia an event was organised with school kids creating plays about the negative effect of desertification and people were invited to plant native trees and celebrate together at a local school. In Beirut, Lebanon an exhibition was shown with the theme Impact of War on the Environment.

Countless other events and activities all over the world - from Islamabad to Athens and Madagascar to Newcastle - have been created in the name of World Environment Day. There is some inspiring stuff on the UN's WED website including a speech made by Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. He highlights the harder realities of our planets environmental woes but also encourages us to accelerate the new Green Economy emerging with facts like "there are now more people employed in environmental technologies than the entire oil and gas industry".

The theme of this year's World Environment Day is "your planet needs you". In the words of Steiner, it's about "mobiliz(ing) grass roots and global public support...which in turn can empower leaders around the world." This is what's required to make the changes our earth's asking from us.

For more information or to register a contributing project visit the WED website.

The Soil Association and So Organic joined forces this bank holiday weekend by holding an education stall at Greenwich Market. Sam joined Kate from the Soil Association, handing our organic pumpkin seeds (see picture on the left) for the great Pumpkin Challenge and giving people tip on how to live the organic way.

If you'd like to become a member of the Soil Association to learn a heap nifty eco friendly tips and support the organic movements visit soilassociation.org/joinus. For this month only you receive a Raw Organic skin care set courtesy of (you guessed it) So Organic. Hurry - they won't last long!