Sometimes it can be demoralising watching events unfold. War, famine and greed seem endemic and gloomy news ever present in the media; brinkmanship over Iran’s nuclear programme, economic collapse in Zimbabwe, human rights abuses in Sudan, melting ice caps, terrorism, population growth, species extinction, religious facism, deforestation, etc…the list goes on.
For some, there is no [...]

Back in 2005 I sat watching Live 8, listening to Birhan Woldu,and my Dad in the background telling me how this could be the start of revolution. At that point decided it was time for my own revolution. Time to give something back.

Dirty Old Coal is back on the agenda. Due to public and goverments’ panic around soaring oil prices (which seem to be on the decline again), there are plans the world over for more coal-fired power plants: India has plans to build another 73 coal plants in the next 10 years. There are plans to [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week John invited me and Dave to a meeting at the office of Steve Webb, the Lib Dem spokeperson for the environment together with few other really interesting bloggers. Steve wanted our help with ideas on how to best utilise social media for influencing the political process of the Climate Change Bill.
The UK has [...]

At last year’s Glastonbury Festival I stood in the Left Field Tent and listened to politician, Tony Benn make a rousing speech on democracy.
Tony’s message was clear. “Democracy is not just voting every 5 years, watching Big Brother in between and wondering why nothing happens. Democracy is what we do and say. Where we [...]

This is a bit off the classic green campaign (more of an ethical/charity campaign) but i find it brilliant nevertheless.

We all do it every now and then: forget to lock our phone’s keypad and accidentally call the first person on our contact list. Usually some unlucky person by the name of Asi or Abigail (or [...]

Innocent is a brand that ‘gets it’ for so long now that we at the marketing planning/strategy community almost hate them for being so good…(na…we’re just jealous we really love them so very much). Unlike so many others that jump on the greenwagon, sustainability is ‘built into’ Innocent products and brand since day one and [...]

GreenGirlsGlobal have written about the free 100 Ways to Save The Planet eBook which was written by Adam over at our usual website. As not everyone likes to read we’ve turned it into a video. It’s (hopefully) a reasonably short, nice, relaxing watch and another way to get the message out there. Please feel free [...]