Archive for the ‘Eco products’ Category

After a slow start, the issue of greener computing is beginning to gather momentum. Read my five suggestions for using our computers more efficiently…

So now it’s not just biofuels that are in the news for creating problems; bioplastics are getting it in the neck for not being the quick fix they were touted to be. Well, as our younger readers might say, duh. This weekend’s papers carried stories about how “sustainable” plastics made for packaging out of maize, sugarcane and wheat were nowhere near as

I’ve just come back from an annual family gathering. My grandfather was one of five brothers, so there are a lot of relatives: fifty of us turn up at the local tennis club and there’s lots of energy in the room. Buffet style food, kids running round, faces new and old, and co-operative good will over clearing up. Lots of chit chat about

Isn’t that fabulous? The ultimate surf-hippie icon, re-imagined for a low energy world. It was conceived a couple of years by the Canadian industriall designer Alexandre Verdier, but I only just came across it.

If you have a second, take a look at these great pictures in today’s Guardian from satellites of our changing earth… They’re from a new book called Fragile Earth. Scary they may be, but strangely beautiful too.

Lots of things to mention. First up, for anyone who lives in my area down in Brighton, there’s a special screening of Rebecca Hosking’s deeply moving film Message in The Waves being screened for free…

What is it with bears? There have been a lot around recently. In Sudan there was the teddy bear teacher, while at the Tate Liverpool Mark Wallinger won the Turner Prize by dressing up as a bear - though actually he won it for his installation Sleeper, a recreation of Brian Haw’s one man protest against the Iraq war in Parliament Square.

Read on about George Monbiot’s bear protest…

Stephen Fry has been enthusing wildy in his Guardian column “Dork Talk” about the Eco Player, comparing it favourably to the Phillips Streamium:

Next week we’ll be at the first ever Sustainability Show at the O2, London (formerly the Millennium Dome) - Friday 26th - Sunday 28th October.
So, come and…

I’ve been getting really excited about our new energy saving light bulbs.

Long gone are the days of one type of ugly low energy light bulb that sticks out the top of your lamp. These days you can buy a variety of energy saving equivalents in a huge range of shapes and sizes. Best of all…