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…
OK, who needs to be serious all the time, but really… Do we need The Huffington Post’s “7 Sexiest Green Celebs of 2007″? It’s another excuse to namedrop the usual suspects from Cheryl C. to Brad P..
What a year, eh? I’m exhausted, I don’t know about you.
Nigel’s Eco Store has been flat out for weeks; I have never known it so hectic. We’ve been careering around for what seems like forever getting the last orders out but we’ve finally got there. So thanks from everyone here for all the extraordinary support you’ve given Nigel’s Eco Store.
I’m nervously following the news on Burma on the net, amazed at the profound bravery of unarmed protesters on the other side of the world - in particular the Buddhist monks who have led the country’s rebellion…
I was shocked and saddened to hear, last night, of the death of Anita Roddick. She was such a fantastic inspiration, and pretty much single-handedly redefined the area of business ethics here in the UK.
Laurie David is one of the American eco-movements stars. She co-produced An Inconvenient Truth, runs the influential website stopglobalwarming.org and has worked with dozens of pop stars to help plug the message. She recently toured with over-enthusiastic eco-evangelist Sheryl Crow, whose determination to spread the message resulted in her famous toilet paper “joke”. In the US, Laurie David is - next to Al Gore - the ecology movement’s number two figurehead.
I’ve heard so many good things about this book I really should give it a read. If anyone really popularised environmental activism in America, it was Edward Abbey; he was cantankerous, misanthropic, but often very funny.
I’ve just read this lovely article in this week’s New Scientist, about Charles Kellogg, a successful music-hall performer who loved the Californian Redwood forests. Kellogg’s bizarre specialism was birdsong impressions…
