A funny video by The Energy Savings Trust and comedian Marcus Brigstocke, spoofing MTV cribs eco-styleee

If I am distracted from the environment I stop caring. I have recently moved into a new flat, a stressful enough task, especially when you are moving in with your girlfriend for the first time. Biodiversity loss, ice caps melting, or encroaching desertification seem like nothing compared to who waters the flaccid basil plants or [...]

A few years ago I visited the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, USA,  ‘Pigs. If you ever need to be self sufficient, Pigs are what you need.  Eat anything, and the whole animal can be used’.  That was the message of one of the colonial actresses as she made up another batch of lard scones on [...]

For some time now I’ve tried to reduce the amount of meat in my diet, knowing full well, meat can be expensive in price and cause greenhouse gas emissions.
In fact UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport. (1)
I’ve been sea fishing since I was a kid and [...]

Every year more than 450 million square feet of toxic, non-biodegradable billboard vinyl is tossed into landfills.  For the past four years Eco-LogicalART, a small non-profit based in Los Angeles, has been salvaging vinyl, stretching it and offering the canvases to artists for free in exchange for exposure on the exterior of the gallery.  This [...]