XY Unlimited were asked by Light Bulb Finder to come up with a tune about choosing efficient bulbs, and this video was born. The award-winning Light Bulb Finder app is available as a free download on iOS and Android. Green guitar – James Adams Shaker and eco facts – Macain “The Professor” Treat Cajón – …
This is a piece of environmental history… recordings of the concert in 1970 that launched Greenpeace. Recorded in Vancouver in 1970, the album has been remastered and available from the Amchitka Concert website.
This is a guest post from the guys at igadgetlife.com, covering gadget reviews . They say that music calms the savage beast. It could also be said that talk-radio creates a stir. But either way you like it, one thing you can use to experience either one is a radio or portable media player. Portable …
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photo credit Jennifer Stern I woke up to the sounds of vuvuzelas blowing this morning. Cape Town has reached fever pitch. Today is the start of the FIFA World Cup 2010. Flags are flying. There’s something in the air. It even feels like summer today, even though it’s winter here. The sun is shining, and …
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Wannabe celeb Dan Power has released the world’s first ever ‘anti-eco’ single ‘Energy Wasting Day’ Dan Power attempts to knock Lady Gaga and Oasis out of the Top 10 and become the UK’s number one in time for April 1 2009. In his debut music video, Dan Power (a self-confessed carbon junkie and Jeremy Clarkson …
Photo credit: fabbio You don’t have to tell me twice that going to a festival is good for me. I had the best time last year at The Green Man in the Brecon Beacons, Robert Plant was awesome and despite the mud (my children thought it looked like chocolate icing) and the rain, we had …
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Louis Walsh eat your heart out! Three Swedish Environmental Engineering students from the University of Lund have taken it upon themselves to form a boy band modelled on the likes of Westlife and Take That, but with a serious message. The Ekoboys’ euro-pop ballad “Echo in my Heart” is performed as an “eye-opener” on the …
Barenaked Ladies are known for their environmental activism, and so it’s only natural that their latest release: Talk To The Hand: Live In Michigan would be offered up in environmentally friendly packaging. The 6-Panel CD Folder holds both a CD and DVD along with a 6-page booklet. The folder is printed on Cascades Prokote paperboard …
The amazing REM’s new song Until the Day is Done accompanies the trailer of CNN’s new documentary Planet in Peril. Watch the full documentary on CNN International on Wednesday 24th & Thursday 25th October at 13.00 & 19.00 GMT. “There’s literally one species that holds the cards. It’s our species, human beings, that controls the …