Greening festivals
Posted by mlamond in Clean up the World, Glastonbury, climate change, festivals, greenblogs, greenpeace, young on 28. Jun, 2010 | 2 Comments
For the past four years Green.TV has been sending a team down to the Glastonbury festival to film short stories about the numerous ‘green’ activities that go on during the festival’s 5 days. (You can watch these at – http://www.green.tv/glastonbury)
Festivals have always struck me as a great place to raise awareness and possibly change people’s attitudes. Certainly, Glastonbury’s organiser, Michael Eavis, has used the festival to support numerous worthy causes and over the past few years these have included two of Green.TV’s partners, Greenpeace (http://www.green.tv/greenpeace) and Oxfam (http://www.green.tv/oxfam).
Green Porn
Posted by mlamond in Clean up the World, Uncategorized, green media, greenblogs on 26. May, 2010 | 2 Comments
Yes its a cheap subject line for a blog and we’re bound to attract several viewers who will no doubt be disappointed by my witterings – however, there is a serious point to be made here.
Type ‘Green Porn’ into Google and you’ll be amazed by what comes up (stop it!). While I was expecting to be inundated with a list of smutty sites that would require me to explain my site visit history to my partner as being for ‘research purposes’ – the reality was surprising.
There certainly appear to be plenty of sites that do indeed offer ‘Green Porn’, usually based around sex outdoors (or so I suppose, honest!) but top of the search and dominating the listings was ‘Green Porno’ a series of short films written and directed by Isabella Rossellini.
The series began in 2008 and currently airs on the Sundance Channel – http://www.sundancechannel.com. Each film looks at animal sexual behaviour and Rossellini enacts the mating rituals of various insects and animals with cardboard cut-outs and foam-rubber sculptures. Some of them are pretty funny and hats off to Ms Rossellini for having the kahunas to embark on such an exercise.
My search also threw up links to two very interesting and different blogs. The first was from Trewin Restorick, CEO of NGO Global Action Plan (http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/green-porn-how-do-you-make-low-carbon-economy-sexy-150210).
Trewin commands a considerable amount of respect in UK sustainability circles and his blog was based around a meeting he attended which had posed the rather hackneyed but worthy question of ‘how can you make a low carbon economy sexy?’ He’d suggested turning the question on its head and asking – ‘how can you make sex low carbon?’ As he goes onto say a project measuring the carbon footprint of the adult industry would be extremely interesting, particularly given the profusion of server space it must now swallow.
The second blog was written by Liz Langley. I know nothing about Ms Langley but was impressed with the directness of her piece – ‘Why Using Sex Toys, Watching Porn, and Going Green Is an Easy Fit’!
Her discussion was based on the increasing adoption of porn into the mainstream and the fact that such acceptance was allowing the industry to become greener. Its quite a graphic piece in places and readers of a sensitive disposition might be offended but its a good argument (Though to be honest her tale of hair bands made from re-cycled condoms had me thinking of ‘There’s Something About Mary’). Anyway you can read her piece at – http://www.alternet.org/sex/126664/why_using_sex_toys,_watching_porn,_and_going_green_is_an_easy_fit/?page=entire
So this being the Green TV blog was this really just an excuse to ‘do research’?
Well – yes and no! Two years ago Green TV launched a sub-channel called ‘Green Sauce’ of video content that we thought was ‘Adult’ in nature – you can watch it here:
http://www.green.tv/greensauce
Some of the films in the channel have proved to be perennial favourites with viewers and also with our syndication partners.
However, we haven’t received any films that we deem suitable for ‘Green Sauce’ for over six-months and we’re starting to worry that credit crunch and recession may have discouraged filmmakers from producing films with green themes that are sexy (I’ve had to phrase that very carefully!).
Is this the case? Let me know!
5 more sites that make us green-geek out
Posted by annied in DECC, Oxfam, greenblogs, greentech, greentv news on 30. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
5 more wicked-cool places seen online
Young British Green Bloggers (part 2): Sarah Jane Howe of thegreenvillage.co.uk
Posted by annied in green media, greenblogs, young on 13. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
Part 2 of our series on young British green bloggers: Sarah Jane Howe (& Chris) from greenvillage.co.uk answered some questions about her green ah-ha moment, her wicked ride, and her life’s mission.
Young British Green Bloggers (part 1): Niel of Climatico Analysis
Posted by annied in Green News, green media, greenblogs, young on 09. Oct, 2009 | 1 Comment
Part 1 of our series on young British green bloggers: Niel from ClimaticoAnalysis.com chats with the bloggess about how he got involved in environmental issues, his cycle, and green sins.
Young British Green Bloggers: blogging the transition
Posted by annied in greenblogs, young on 08. Oct, 2009 | 1 Comment
The green-blogosphere is US centric. But who’s out there that homegrown British?
5 Websites That Make Us Green-Geek-Out
Posted by annied in Green News, climate change, green media, greenblogs on 14. Sep, 2009 | 3 Comments
1. Strangemaps
Soon to be a book, Strangemaps has all kinds of (you guessed it) strange maps. Actually, they aren’t strange, so much as old.
Here are some high-lights:
“Homeland is where the Heartland is.” is particularly pertinent with the fuss in the British press a few weeks back: much ado about food shortages. DEFRA declared, “farmers [...]