The End of Suburbia on YouTube
The End of Suburbia – a 52 minute documentary on peak oil If you’ve been wanting to see The End of Suburbia, all 52 minutes of it are now available to view on YouTube. (via: Hugg)
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Tracy Stokes
Tracy Stokes is a mixed media artist living & working on the slopes of Devil's Peak in Cape Town. She likes to paint on re-purposed surfaces and recycle creatively in all aspects of her life.
Photos of life in an eco-roundhouse
The BBC News website features a series of photographs of life in a eco-friendly Celtic-style roundhouse. Tony Wrench and Jane Faith built the roundhouse 9 years ago in Pembrokeshire, and live a low impact life in it. The house is… Read More »Photos of life in an eco-roundhouse
Invasion of the foreign sprouts
Not long ago we featured a new website called VegBoxSchemes who make local produce easier to find. I received an email from them this week explaining how far much of our food travels to make it to Christmas lunch, along… Read More »Invasion of the foreign sprouts
Buy Nothing Day – no purchase necessary
Saturday 25th November 2006 is Buy Nothing Day. A day to switch off from shopping and tune into life. Take part – buy nothing – it’s FREE. The UK’s Buy Nothing Day website points out that 20% of the earth’s… Read More »Buy Nothing Day – no purchase necessary
The P3 Award: People, Prosperity and the Planet
Got an innovative solution that protects the environment while growing the economy? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring an exciting environmental design contest for undergraduate and graduate students – The P3 Award. Through this national design competition, students and their faculty advisors submit cutting-edge, sustainable solutions to environmental challenges and compete for $10,000 to develop their designs. Winners from the first phase of the competition advance to the National Sustainable Design Expo in Washington, DC, in the spring of 2008 where they compete for the chance to win up to $75,000 in funding to move their designs to the marketplace or implement them in the field.
Recycle This
If you’ve ever wondered whether there was a use for out-of-date condoms, non-clingy clingfilm or random odd gloves, you’re going to like Recycle This. Members post up questions and ideas about reusing and recycling random objects, and comments and ideas… Read More »Recycle This
Eco Street’s “Green Christmas” guide
Counting down…
Start as you mean to go on. Biome Lifestyle will set you up for a green Christmas with the Christmas Survival Kit & Advent Calendar. The advent calendar is stocked with organic sweets, eco-friendly Christmas survival tips and some small surprise gifts, and the calendar itself is made of sustainable materials and designed to be used year after year. Priced at £25.00. (Refills for the calendar will be available every year from Biome Lifestyle.)
Deck the halls…
There’s nothing greener than making your own Christmas wreath from plants in your garden, but if that’s not on the cards this Christmas, this reusable recycled tin wreath from Biome Lifestyle will do the trick too. The wreaths are made by a small co-operative in Africa, and the money goes directly to the co-operative to support local families and artisans. Buying fairly traded goods is a great way to give! Priced at £25.00. (via: The Green Guy)
We asked, they delivered
Environmentalists celebrated today when the government finally committed itself to debating a Climate Change Bill in the next session of parliament. The Big Ask, a campaign by Friends of the Earth to secure the bill, will continue its work to… Read More »We asked, they delivered
Baubles are for the birds this Christmas
The Times is dishing out some sensible advice for greening Christmas this year. Here’s a taster: …the fairies, stars, tinsel and baubles that usually adorn the tree to be replaced with edible decorations that can be given to the birds… Read More »Baubles are for the birds this Christmas