(The) Sky Turns Green

BSkyB, Sky News’ parent company, is the first major media company to go “Carbon Neutral”. The company will also be spreading the green message to its growing base of more than 8.1m customers, helping them to become better informed and live more energy efficiently. “Going CarbonNeutral is a significant step which marks the beginning of …

It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

REM are singing along to the BBC Climate Chaos television ads, and seeing those apolcalyptic images whizzing across the screen makes for worrying watching. I will be sure to see as many of the series of programmes as possible, and I hope that the hard hitting ads will lure the more complacent members of society …

Short Film: Green Eye for The Common Gal

This funny short student film is a parody of the television show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The film illustrates simple changes you can make to reduce your impact on the earth. Filmed in the dorms of Humbolt University, the film was made by the university’s Green Campus Program. Watch Green Eye for The …

Greener, Healthier Energy Options for South Africans

Tumelo Ramolefi is an inner-city hawker in Johannesburg, but what makes him different is that he isn’t selling “smileys” and “runaways” (boiled sheep heads and pigs’ trotters), t-shirts and socks, or even black bags and coathangers. Tumelo’s stall , on a pavement in Joubert Park, is selling innovative renewable-energy gadgets and his gadgets are proving …

“Green Girl” Hits Mainstream Radio Charts

It’s been said that John Romano’s singing voice evokes Lou Reed, and that his new song “Green Girl”, that is doing well in the mainstream radio charts in the US, is reminiscent of some of Reed’s lighter work. Laura Glendinning, VP of Avant Garde A Clue, Inc., the itunes label who have released Romano’s song …

Penney Composts her Placenta

Penney Poyzer, of No Waste Like Home fame, gave birth to a daughter last week and took her placenta home to compost it. ” The placenta would only have been incinerated and what a waste of goodness that would have been!” said Penney. In an interview with grownupgreen, Penney talks about her natural birth, and …

World Fair Trade Day – 13th May

Celebrate World Fair Trade Day on Saturday the 13th of May by: visiting one of the events listed at the World Fair Trade Day website finding out more about Fair Trade from the Fair Trade Foundation locating your nearest Fair Trade shop in the UK at BAFTS browsing the Eco Street directory for Fair Trade …

Mackie’s Make Wind-powered Ice Cream

Mackie’s of Scotland make ice cream with fresh milk, cream and renewable energy. They have installed a single Vestas V52 wind turbine and aim to become Britain’s greenest company by making more energy than they consume. In the past year, the wind turbine has provided 65% of the electricity requirements for Mackie’s, and they have …

Produce For Less

BigBarn helps you find local food, just enter your postcode, and it will tell you your nearest farmers’ market, farm shop and about local producers in your vicinity. And they have just teamed up with the Telegraph to offer us Produce for Less. Popularity of local food has risen over the past few years with …