April 2010 Update: The brand new global green transition blog TransitionVert.com is now live! This fantastic new site has been launched by one of our former Green Guys, Gareth, and is one of the world’s few multi-lingual blogs on the internet. Find inspirational articles, videos and polls on all things green as the Transition Vert [...]

In March 2010, global scientists and engineers will convene in California, to talk about trials of radical ideas, such as putting mirrors in space to divert the sun’s rays to fertilising the ocean with iron to kick start carbon sucking ecosystems. They will do this because despite what some people still think, the planet is [...]

“People in Africa have too many children” an argument I frequently hear when talking about population.  Despite my strong disagreement with this statement, many people bring it up in one form or another when talking about climate change and population issues. The fact of the matter is, they do not have too many children when [...]

We would dearly love more people to heed the environmental message and through a mixture of altruism and education, recycle their waste but we reluctantly accept that there are many people who simply aren’t interested. For example, our own neighbourhood consists of households who recycle nearly everything, bottles, paper, plastic, compost, etc.. in different bins [...]

Since my earlier article about Marks and Spencer’s ‘eco hypocrisy’, and an initial rather constructive email debate with them about their ‘green credentials’, all communication has now dried up. M&S no longer return my emails. I guess their patience with this one particular activist wore thin. Did I stump them with my questions? Who knows, [...]

There can be little doubt that the Internet has revolutionalised the way we search for information with over a billion people now going on-line globally. Research by global software giant Microsoft has revealed that if current growth trends continue over the next couple of years, then the Internet will become the most consumed form of [...]

Every now and again you find a company that makes you want it to be successful. EF Cars – a taxi company near Southampton, UK, is one such company. To call it a taxi company however would do it injustice, as this is the first taxi company I’ve found that is dedicated to achieving carbon neutrality.

M and S customers stuffing their Hessian eco-bags with packaging (far less green than plastic carrier bags), in the self righteous, I am better than thou way, that M and S customers tend to have.

Reading through the various reports on climate change and environmental damage it can sometimes seem as though the problems we face are insurmountable. That, despite the hard work of environmental campaigners and those concerned with fair trade and green issues, we are merely forestalling inevitable environmental collapse. As the overdue realisation dawns on governments around [...]

Surviving And Thriving On The Land – How to use your time and energy to run a successful smallholding is written by Rebecca Laughton and published by Green Books on recycled paper, using vegetable inks. And the subject matter is as green as the book itself. The author spent four years on an ‘ecological community’ [...]