Tracy Stokes is a mixed media artist living & working on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town. She likes to paint on re-purposed surfaces and recycle creatively in all aspects of her life.
Caring about the planet doesn’t have to be about making life harder. It can be easy. Take this clever little gadget from The Carbon Neutral Company for instance; the Intelliplug looks like a standard 3-way adaptor, but behaves very differently… Read More »Easy green
Fairtrade Fortnight 2007 starts today, 26 February, and continues until 11th March 2007. The theme of this year’s campaign is Change today, choose Fairtrade. A number of events are being held during the two weeks all over the UK, have… Read More »Fairtrade Fortnight 2007
The BBC presents “Climate Challenge”, a game where you are president of the European Nations and must tackle climate change AND stay popular enough with the voters to remain in office. Up to the challenge? Earth’s future is in your… Read More »Earth’s future is in your hands… have you got what it takes to lead Europe?
I read with interest a recent article in The Independent titled: Saving the Planet – Empty Gestures. Here is the first paragraph of that article: At Christmas I was given a copy of the book of the film An Inconvenient… Read More »Media hypocrisy: The Independent’s empty gestures
Thanks to the 14,000 activists who appealed to online mega-retailer Amazon to stop exploiting a threatened species just to make a few quid, Amazon have agreed to remove Shark Fin soup from it’s virtual shelves. Shark finning involves cutting off… Read More »Shark Fin soup off Amazon’s shelves
Mouths everywhere are demanding real, organic food. The Mouth Revolution, a new short film from the makers of The Meatrix, is a humorous 4.5-minute live-action film that parodies history and contemporary culture while informing viewers about the vital importance of… Read More »The Mouth Revolution
The Green Party of Suffolk County (US) is holding a poster competition to encourage both adults and children alike to show off their artistic talents and demonstrate their commitment to ending the war in Iraq. The competition is entitled “Bring… Read More »Bring home our troops
Next month sees the UK’s most comprehensive sustainable design and construction event in London. Ecobuild will take place at Earls Court 2 from the 27th February to the 1st March 2007, with over 60 free seminars and 300+ exhibitors. Whether… Read More »Ecobuild 2007
Some of you may remember that last year we asked if you would like to be part of the BBC’s Climate Change Experiment. Many thousands of people took part and the BBC revealed the results of the experiment in a… Read More »Climate Change Experiment: the results are in