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 [...]

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.

Clearly laid out, simple to understand and full of visuals.  This book is revolves around the theme of peak oil and its wide ranging impacts.  Part handbook and  part summary of the scary climate predicament we find ourselves in – The Transition Timeline is designed to be a manual for change.
The first of this 5 [...]

Charlotte and Ben’s account of their struggles to save their father’s farm is an inspirational tale that warms the heart, and through their own words leaves you with a deep appreciation of the hard work, that these organic food heroes have been through to bring an honest meal to our plates.
Their father Arthur Hollins was [...]

Bionsen kindly sent me a bottle of its deodorant for me to test. Usually I’m a spray deodorant kind of guy but not being able to send aerosols through the post, I opted for the pump spray. At £2.49 it’s not unreasonable, although I tend to choose my spray by being on special offer so [...]

This video made my day. It’s small, it’s real, it’s brilliant.
It’s a great example of how media is changing from something through which to disperse information to becoming a tool for (collective) action. It’s a little long, but worth the patience.
“As citizens and as consumers, we may not be able to wield a great deal [...]

One of the reasons why I haven’t been writing regularly enough for GreenGuysGlobal has been the amount of work that I’ve been doing on my friend of GGG site, Life Goggles.
We’re a green product review site, so to celebrate our redesign, we’ve launched a massive eco product competitions. Currently there are 83 prizes with a [...]

A few days a go I had found a article in Good Housekeeping which talked about what are these fancy names we put on products in the store like “natural” and “no CFC’s” and what they really mean to the consumer. I had read this article and knew about most of the labels and learned [...]

Recently I had been sent a e-mail with a link to this wonderful video that explained that as consumers most of us don’t see or see too little of what the big picture has to tell us about what the real cost of what it takes to produce a product in terms of money, [...]