Posted on 28 April 2008
This video made my day. It’s small, it’s real, it’s brilliant. It’s a great example of how media is changing from something through which to disperse information to becoming a tool for (collective) action. It’s a little long, but worth the patience. “As citizens and as consumers, we may not be able to wield a [...]
Tags: Business, campaign, Shopping
Posted on 28 April 2008
It is evidently striking that there are many, many companies and services that offer a ‘green edge’. I personally am very sceptical about such arrangements…but should we be? If a normally non-green service can donate money to a worthy cause or initiative then should we be backing them over ‘conventional’ services. The question I think [...]
Tags: Business, wildlife
Posted on 25 April 2008
Are you tired of the boiler plate, run of the mill action emails steadily filling your inbox? Sure you want to help out—you want to change the world, end the war, save the environment, and so on—but does it have to be so boring? Skim the petition, enter your information and details, maybe email some [...]
Tags: games, IT, marine, nature, wildlife
Posted on 15 April 2008
One of the reasons why I haven’t been writing regularly enough for GreenGuysGlobal has been the amount of work that I’ve been doing on my friend of GGG site, Life Goggles. We’re a green product review site, so to celebrate our redesign, we’ve launched a massive eco product competitions. Currently there are 83 prizes with [...]
Tags: competition, Shopping
Posted on 08 April 2008
One of the greenest things you can do on a personal level is to stop using your car. Yes, wouldn’t that be nice. It all works out in that green version of reality I aspire to. Incidentally this is the same version of reality where a horse delivers my vegetables from a local farm. Recently [...]
Tags: cars, energy, Pollution, Transport