Friends of the Earth International have launched their first ever photo competition, with the theme of Climate Justice. FOEI are looking for striking photographs that will illustrate the impact that the changing climate is having on the environment and show who is responsible for dangerous climate change, for example: the impacts of climate change: featuring …
We’ve just discovered that The Mad* Show has been postponed until further notice. They are working on a new date and will keep us informed as to when that will be and what they have planned in the next few days. Via: City Hippy
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 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 …