I asked a number of people at the festival what they were doing in their own lives to tackle climate change and also what they found the most difficult. Sharia – Greenpeace Fundraiser ‘I shop locally, eat locally, manage my own allotment, and cycle to work. I don’t use supermarkets, so for me fitting in [...]

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 earth would [...]

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 minutes of light. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Something new has appeared in the canteen at work. I thought it might be worth a mention here. Miya Coffee claims to be the first coffee in the world that is 100% Fairtrade, 100% organic and the estimated 7000 miles it has taken to get to the UK from Columbia is all offset. There is [...]

Frankenstein foods, biodiversity loss, corporate takeover of the countryside. These have all been given as reasons to hate GM. That’s my experience in the UK. Some Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in poorer countries support the use of GM crop. These NGOs see it as another problem: the gap between the rich and the poor, between [...]

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 [...]

It looks like a Jam Jar, but this light hearted gadget is actually a solar lamp. Sucking up the sun’s rays, through a small solar panel concealed beneath the opaque lid. The jar was designed by a guy called Tobias Wong and just like a jam jar it is perfectly waterproof. Making it ideal for [...]