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).
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.
5 Cool Carbon Entrepreneurs as seen at The Carbon Show, London
Posted by annied in climate change, greentv news on 02. Oct, 2009 | 2 Comments
Eco3
Ecodesign. Impeccably dressed with a wicked eye for design Mark Shayler. Can both reduce your products packaging and make it prettier at the same time! Like Bectel, for example, there’ll be more space for more of your product on the shelf so you’ll probably sell more on top of saving on inputs. Oh, and his [...]
5 Odd & Important green news stories from the bank holiday weekend
Posted by annied in Green News, WWF, green media on 02. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
1. Japan elected a leftist government, but it doesn’t necessarily mean tougher action on climate change.
According to our friends at ClimaticoAnalysis.org, environmental activists ought to tone down the celebrating a wee bit (check out their blog post on the subject). Although the government wants 15% cut in GHG emissions by 2050, the DJP wants 30% [...]