Plascon greenwash?

If you can’t read the ad, here’s what it says: “Green is the new mainstream. Once a global issue taken on by the few, it has now come home. Literally. Recycling, saving energy, choosing organic, preserving the planet, it’s all about embracing nature and discovering innovative ways to live. Our Plascon Palette of 2009 is …

Join the #earthtweet tweet-a-thon

This Earth Day (22nd April 2009), what are you doing to help? If you’re a Twitter-bug, be sure to let the rest of the Twittersphere know what you’re up to and how you’re contributing to Earth Day.   Use the #earthtweet hashtag to share what you’re doing for the planet. Contributing will help build the Earth …

Have your flowers, and eat them!

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful” – William Morris. You don’t have to be a farmer to grow your own food, just a little patch in your back garden should enable you to grow a fair bit of your own produce. But some …

Make: driftwood aeroplanes

Driftwood inspires art. It’s soft edges and fascinating shapes carved by the sea have been the starting point of many a coffee table, frame or even totem pole.  If you live by the sea (or at least within reach of it) you have the opportunity to keep an eye out for bits of driftwood washed …

13 distinctly African recycled objects

After almost a year in South Africa, I thought that it was about time that I shared some African recycling experiences with EcoStreet readers. Not all of these recycled objects are from South Africa, some are from West and East Africa too, but they all have the flavour of the African bricoleur (one of my …

Wake up… Take action NOW

Concerned Londoners last week handed out copies of a spoof Financial Times, urging journalists and big business to make the future possible by putting people first.   Set in 2020, the 12-page paper revealed how action in 2009 reined in climate change, saving billions from extinction.   Carbon rationing didn’t kill us, it explained, despite the …

World Water Day 2009

Working to halve the number of people around the world without safe drinking water. Clean Water = A Path out of Poverty. How the UK is helping people to build better lives. March 22 is World Water Day, a reminder that clean, safe water enables life. It promotes good health, enables people to work, attend …

Dan Power’s Anti-Eco Music Video

Wannabe celeb Dan Power has released the world’s first ever ‘anti-eco’ single ‘Energy Wasting Day’ Dan Power attempts to knock Lady Gaga and Oasis out of the Top 10 and become the UK’s number one in time for April 1 2009. In his debut music video, Dan Power (a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson …