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Category Archives: Environment

Not as foolproof as we thought?

3 of the 4 cables that provide internet connections between Europe and North Africa (and thence the Middle East) are broken at the moment. Repairs won’t be completed for a few more days, because a ship has to find the broken ends, and drag them to the surface, where they will be stitched together fibre [...]

Green Thing wins award for best Green Digital thing

Congratulations to Green Thing for winning the “Best Green Digital” award at last night’s Green Awards.
I had a small part to play in getting Green Thing going, and have followed its progress since launch keenly. It’s managed to meld creative genius, great humour and a really important message brilliantly. Well done!

Why Innocent became a ranger

This article was written by Innocent, who is the Chief of Gorilla Monitoring for ICCN in Congo. It’s an account of why and how he became a ranger, and his career so far. He wrote it because his team can’t go out to work, because of the civil war there.
I wanted to post a link [...]

Attempt to sabotage blog action day is unmasked

Someone was surely trying to create an “all environmentalists are insane” story when they announced this morning that the UK Government was trying to get us all to switch from fresh to UHT milk. Had this story been true (apparently it isn’t) the outrage would’ve sent greens throughout the UK scurrying into holes, [...]

What kind of blogger are you?

In preparation for Blog Action Day on October 16th, there’s a quiz that tells you what kind of blogger you are. I’m a purist expert socialite, apparently. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not…

Do The Green Thing is live

Do the green thing! The project that I’ve been helping a little bit, to launch a creative, fun environmental website called http://www.dothegreenthing.com, went live on Thursday. The content and idea are really lovely, and it’s bound to generate lots of interest and action.
Well done Andy and Naresh, and everyone else who’s been working so hard [...]

Friends of the Earth – Video Competition

Friends of the Earth are holding a video competition in conjunction with Youtube. The voting is now open, and some of the entries are brilliant. Here’s my favourite.

Blog action day – join in!

I’m going to join in Blog Action Day, a day when thousands of bloggers will be writing about the environment. The idea is to create as much noise and attention at once as possible. If you have a blog, join in!

Save this number to your mobile – 020 8568 0022

 

020 8568 0022 is the number for Green Tomato. They’re a taxi company that only uses hybrid cars, and I had a ride in one last week. The driver told me he spends 20% of what his non-hybrid colleagues spend on fuel. Toyota can’t tell stories like that because of regulations around fuel consumption calculations, [...]

Gorilla Marketing?

Not a spelling mistake, I promise…

I’ve had two contrasting experiences over the last few days, that both (weirdly) involve online marketing and gorillas. In the first, we downloaded London Zoo’s Gorilla competition, which involves feeding and interacting with a virtual gorilla on your desktop. It’s quite nicely done creatively, if a bit arduous to [...]