Archive | December, 2007

Vampire Energy Costing Us $3 Billion A Year!

Posted on 21 December 2007

Good Magazine has a great graphic depicting the economic implications of leaving appliances plugged in for an entire year. We all know that a minuscule amount of energy is being consumed just by leaving a device plugged in – but, an average consumer with a reasonable electronics collection will waste around $300 leaving all those [...]

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Earthwatch Volunteer Open Day

Posted on 20 December 2007

Details of the open day provided by Simon Laman from Earthwatch: Date: Saturday 12th January, 10am – 1pm Venue: Earthwatch Oxford Offices, Prama House, 267 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7HT, UK This is intended for those of you who are new to Earthwatch, and/or have never been on an Earthwatch project before. You will be [...]

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Plumen: Beautiful Energy Efficient Light Bulbs

Posted on 20 December 2007

Ever asked yourself why what you can call ‘green aesthetics’ are so unimaginative? Best case in point is energy-efficient light bulbs – why are they so generically bad looking? Well, not any more thanks to Hulger Design that decided to marry beauty, personality and low-energy light bulbs in their Plumen Project. And the result is [...]

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Consume Less

Posted on 13 December 2007

Recently I had been sent a e-mail with a link to this wonderful video that explained that as consumers most of us don’t see or see too little of what the big picture has to tell us about what the real cost of what it takes to produce a product in terms of money, content [...]

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Richard Rhodes – Shocking: Why won’t airlines let you clean up your C02 pollution?

Posted on 12 December 2007

Here at e-photoframes, UK photo frame retailer with an ethical twist, we recently produced a shocking report on the response of the worlds airlines to climate change. They have a penchant for big boys’ toys jammed packed with high tech gadgets; They’re a by-word for safe travel and their concern for your well being is [...]

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A Blind Call

Posted on 12 December 2007

This is a bit off the classic green campaign (more of an ethical/charity campaign) but i find it brilliant nevertheless. We all do it every now and then: forget to lock our phone’s keypad and accidentally call the first person on our contact list. Usually some unlucky person by the name of Asi or Abigail [...]

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Buy One Plant One Tree

Posted on 07 December 2007

Innocent is a brand that ‘gets it’ for so long now that we at the marketing planning/strategy community almost hate them for being so good…(na…we’re just jealous we really love them so very much). Unlike so many others that jump on the greenwagon, sustainability is ‘built into’ Innocent products and brand since day one and [...]

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100 Ways To Save The Planet Video

Posted on 06 December 2007

GreenGirlsGlobal have written about the free 100 Ways to Save The Planet eBook which was written by Adam over at our usual website. As not everyone likes to read we’ve turned it into a video. It’s (hopefully) a reasonably short, nice, relaxing watch and another way to get the message out there. Please feel free [...]

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Lord Monckton rap battles Al Gore – Climate-Gate?

The latest episode of Hip Hop News Parody show ‘Rap News’ deals with the lead up to potentially historic Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen, 7th December. Your host Robert Foster brings notorious figures from both sides of the debate together in the studio to have it out. Lord Christopher Monckton, the hereditary peer from Great Britain, finally gets the chance to pour his barrage of climate change skepticism all over IPPC darling, Al Gore. Who will win, and who will be rap battled into the ground to eat logic dust? Find out here on Juice Media’s Rap News.

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