Posted on 29 June 2008
At Glastonbury Festival, The Green Fields provide an environmentally friendly guide to life.
A number of entrances to the fields exist, but many will come along the old train track. Decorated by campaigners, the old track contains a number of climate inspired messages. ‘Did you know if all the bees died, life on [...]
Tags: Campaigns, Climate change, festival, Glastonbury
Posted on 28 June 2008
ECOutlet.co.uk have sponsored my GreenFestivalMan campaign with two products, including a Puma LED Dynamo Torch.
When I think of dynamo torches I think of big clumsy things, that need continual winding. This torch is the opposite of this . With a new generation 0.5W LED, one minute of winding gives you 20 [...]
Tags: energy, review, Shopping, torch
Posted on 27 June 2008
Well I’ve arrived at Glastonbury Festival 2008. The organisers of this years festival have promised it to be the greenest festival yet, so i’m really looking forward to the next few days.
The Green Futures field claims to be here to make this a better world to live on.
In fact Glastonbury isn’t just a music festival, [...]
Tags: festival, Glastonbury, Green Futures
Posted on 25 June 2008
For My Kids is a company that produce all natural herbal products that are beneficial for your children and our planet. They’re beneficial in the way that they replace some of the incredibly harmful chemicals that are found in everyday household cleaners and personal care products.
I was sent the “All-Natural Alternative to Antibacterial Disinfectants”, “All-Natural [...]
Tags: Families, Shopping
Posted on 18 June 2008
I just stumbled upon this lovely EcoSearch. These guys re-skinned google and created a nonprofit search that raises money for other environmentally nonprofits.
Users search on EcoSearch.org, just as they would on any other search engine. The results come straight from Google, but here’s the cool thing - they donate all of the profits from their [...]
Tags: Media, search engines, websites
Posted on 15 June 2008
One morning I was walking to work in London when I passed a woman unlocking her shop on Old Bond Street. I noticed that all the lights in the shop were on, yet she clearly hadn’t been inside that day as the shutters were still down.
Realising the lights had probably been on all night, I [...]
Tags: Campaigns, energy, Light Pollution
Posted on 14 June 2008
The Guardian recently reported that a study by Julie’s bicycle, revealed that large music festivals (i.e more than 40,000 people) can generate around more the 2,000 tonnes of CO2.
This year I’ll be going to Glastonbury Festival, and Camp Bestival and living by 10 greener festival tips as The GreenFestivalMan.
Number TEN - Fashion
Don’t waste money [...]
Tags: Climate change, Editor, events, festivals, green ideas, Pollution, Shopping
Posted on 13 June 2008
It’s safe to say that the use of social networking sites worldwide has exploded in the past year, with popular sites seeing total visits increase by as much as 270 percent, according to a recent study by ComScore Inc. MySpace, alone drew more than 114 million global visitors in June 2007, a 72 percent increase [...]
Tags: Climate change, Media, social networking, web
Posted on 10 June 2008
This year I’m trying to reduce my carbon footprint at Glastonbury Festival by living by 10 Carbon Busting Green Festival Tips.
Recently a number of GreenGuys and GreenGirls have written about the environmental and health benefits of going vegetarian. Some reports even say vegetarians have half the carbon footprint of their meat eating counterparts.
People go [...]
Tags: Climate change, events, festival
Posted on 10 June 2008
This is probably the fastest campaign ever.
A bunch of 10 strangers met for couple of hours, came up with some solid ideas, exchanged few emails and after only a week(!), a simple, single-minded and hopefully effective campaign was born!
Well done to all people involved.
The Canvass Your MP campaign aims to encourage members of the public [...]
Tags: campaign, Climate change, web design