If you eat fish, you eat plastic
Something for all you fish-lovers out there. Via: Green Remix [ad#468×60]
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 …
Nigel makes Mother’s Day meaningful
Green shopkeeper Nigel Berman is thinking hard about how to give his Mum a gift that is more than just the usual hurried card and flowers, he’s going for “something more thoughtfully chosen, that’s more meaningful and more eco friendly (of course)”. Here’s what he suggests: Oranges are not the only fruit, but these fantastic …
Say it with organic and English flowers
Just in time for Mother’s Day, By Nature has launched a new flower delivery service with a selection of freshly cut UK grown seasonal blooms. From the end of March 2009 an organic bouquet will be added. Their English flower selection is bound to please anyone questioning where their flowers are coming from and how …
Science fiction and pragmatism
This is a guest post by Dr Gary Robertshaw of The Green Providers Directory. Reading through some scientific papers recently I was struck by the many, well-intentioned ideas for tackling climate change. These included solar arrays in space beaming back microwave energy to Earth, burying charcoal, pumping iron into the oceans and various ingenious devices …
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