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).
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?
The Tories, EU bashing, and your food supply
Posted by annied in DEFRA, Environment Agency, Green News, climate change on 06. Oct, 2009 | Comments Off
As the Tory Conference continues in Manchester, and David Cameron trashes the EU, let’s take a minute to remember just what the EU has done for the UK. There is a common myth in food and drug regulation that just because a problem isn’t evident in a lab, there won’t be a problem in (uncontrolled environment) the real world.
Campaigns DO Make Change. The clock is TckTckTck-ing
Posted by annied in Oxfam, WWF, campaign on 25. Sep, 2009 | Comments Off
Our friend Erica Grigg of carbonOutreach.com has a response to our query: Too Many Climate Campaigns?
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 [...]