Archive for the ‘Cool things’ Category

Last week designers Rod and Mary from Cardboard Future came by the office to show us their new Paperweight cardboard desk.

The desk looks like expensive design furniture, is 100% recyclable,

Just found this great video ‘One Minute Recipe for Success at Copenhagen’ at…

Last week, the Isles of Scilly held a world first community effort to save energy. Over a 24-hour period - on Energy Saving Day (E-Day) - the island’s residents switched off all non-essential electrical items in homes, schools and workplaces, and took live online measurements of the results. By the close of play at midnight, the islanders had achieved

Last night I went to the Climate Clinic at the Friends Meeting House in Brighton - as part of the Labour Party Conference. Green Party candidates Caroline Lucas and Tony Juniper, and

In the run up to the crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen in December, the 10:10 campaign caught my eye.

The brainchild of Franny Armstrong, whose film…

Many’s a time I’ve sat on Brighton beach, watching the starlings swoop over the wreck of the West Pier. The view may be about to change though as I hear plans are afoot to develop an offshore wind farm on a large scale.

According to Brighton Council, the coast from Eastbourne going west has been earmarked for wind turbines every kilometer…

Continuing on the green travel theme, if you travel for business to meet clients and suppliers, you could save money and cut carbon emissions by video conferencing instead….

There are plans afoot. Real plans aimed at tackling climate change by getting us to become more local. Which means in the future we could all be taking local holidays, growing our own food, and generating our own energy.

Someone mentioned Energy Harvesting to me last night. The idea of converting the small amount of energy that’s generated from human motion into power for small gadgets and devices like phones. It’s on the way apparently.