Archive for the ‘Green heros’ Category

Newsman, colourful tie-wearer and all round good egg Jon Snow has narrated a thought provoking animation by UNICEF and Do The Green Thing, Climate Kid.

About four weeks ago we decided to to a summer eco market in Brighton, to bring together lots of like minded sellers and makers into one place for a fantastic day of eco inspired shopping, food and fun.

Operating out of a shed in the South Downs near Chichester, Alan and his wife Jo make charcoal from locally coppiced wood. I went to see the burn…

Jane Vere-Hodge is the designer of the original Paper Potter and managing director of Nether Wallop Trading; a company specialising in eco-conscious, hand crafted products. With their range of garden implements, they strive to promote sustainable living by encouraging new and established gardeners to get stuck in!

Peter Ingledew is the inventor of the two great energy savers, the legendary Eco Kettle which stops you from wasting energy by boiling too much water, and the Showerdrop, which stops you from spending hours in the shower and wasting lots of hot water (and cutting down queues for the bathroom). We caught up with Peter to talk about why attitudes are changing towards energy saving, and what motivates him to keep going.

Eco design wizard Max McMurdo is a master of reuse, turning scrap and junk into beautiful items for the home like Silvana, the washing machine drum coffee table. He’s also the brains behind some pretty useful, and attractive, solutions to every day problems such as keeping on top of the recycling at home.

I caught up with Richard Mansfield-Clark, founder of the Rustic Mushroom Company, for a chat about the grow-your-own revolution, tasty ways to cook exotic mushrooms, and he gave me some useful advice about foraging for wild mushrooms.

I went to go and see No Impact Man in the Greenwich Picture House last night, and came away very inspired and uplifted….

Organic Fortnight 2010 (3-17 September) is nearly upon us, and there are lots of ways to get involved….

Do The Green Thing have an excellent competition on their blog where you can vote for your favourite out of four innovative new products, all designed to help save energy and reduce waste.