Australian writer, performer, director and broadcaster Dan Ilic was kind enough to let us know about his latest television advertisement that is taking Australia by storm. It started off as a viral video on the internet, but it struck such a chord with Australians that they raised enough money to have it broadcast on prime …
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It’s not very often that you’ll hear us campaigning against something like this eco town. But as guest contributor Michael Smith points out, this eco town is not as “eco” as it’s being made out to be, and it risks turning beautiful countryside and farmlands into just another car-filled urban area. For a bit of …
Here’s a good cause to get involved in. On Saturday 31st May, a Carnival of Noise will be making it’s way from Hatton Cross Tube Station (Piccadilly Line, 12pm) to Sipson, the village set to be wiped out by the proposed Heathrow expansion. After the carnival, everyone will help to form a giant, and hopefully …
I can’t help feeling that this video would come across a whole lot more sincere without Gordon Brown in it.
For those quiet moments in a sun-lounger in the garden, around the pool, or under your favourite tree, here are five environment themed books to inform, inspire and motivate you to greener things as the year progresses. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Revenge of Gaia by James Lovelock Walden by David Henry Thoreau Worldchanging: …
Join Dan Power, the energy wasting guy for Energy Wasting Day on the 1st of April 2008.
Gloucestershire’s greenest retailer wants you to join their Facebook Forest group. As part of their commitment to the planet Ecotopia.co.uk are planting a tree for every 50 members of its Facebook Forest group and another tree for every 50 customers. The first Facebook Forest is being planted on a small plot of land just outside …
Wake up and smell the coffee. One Planet Cinema is holding a free showing of Black Gold at the University of Nottingham, the first leg of a series of free public film showings organised by Capacity Global and Every Action Counts. The screening of Black Gold is at the University of Nottingham on 11 March …
When I think about forests and CO2 emissions I usually think of the Amazon and not a virtual forest. I imagine that’s probably the same for most people. But I’ve just discovered that I can learn how to cut my carbon emissions by changing my habits, part-own a virtual tree in Second Life, and help …