There’s a great series on TV at the moment: Ways to Save the Planet, Sundays 7pm on the Discovery Channel. My friend, and fellow Brighton resident, David Herman produced the series, so I urge you to watch it.
As climate change and the effects of global warming appear to be moving much faster than we thought, the only…
Happy New Year! 2009 is due to be a huge year, as Obama takes office, and the world figures out how to deal with the economic and climate crises.
For me, 2008 ended with an inspiring note. On New Year’s Eve, the Today programme on Radio 4 allowed guest editor Jarvis Cocker (formerly of Pulp) to mess with the usual format. Part of his show…
It seems to be summer in the middle of October and the economy is crumbling round our ears. But there is some good stuff going on, if you look closely. Here’s three excellent things that make us happy here at Nigel’s Eco Store…
Someone just asked me, “If you were Prime Minister for one day, what would you do?” This is what I said: Getting solar panels onto the roof of every…
Trawling the web, I see The Daily Green suggests we all switch back to corded phones… remember them? Cordless phones, they say, are energy vampires. Plus there’s nothing more frustrating than being in a house on fire and discovering your DECT phone battery has gone flat…
Read more old-fashioned phones and new-fangled eco ideas…
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…
Greenpeace asked the internet public to name a whale, to publicise its Great Whale Trail, following the migration of the magnificent humpback whales.
Read why it’s not going well…
In turbulent times, we could all use a bit of extra emotional and spiritual advice and encouragement.
As the planet, and the human race, goes through some pretty hefty stuff, the challenge we’re all facing is to move from an unsustainable way of life to one that is more ethical, organic, tolerant, peaceful, sustainable and eco friendly.
To help in the understanding of ourselves and the bigger picture, we asked leading…
Eco-Worrier puts me in mind of Thurber’s grandmother who “lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house,” and went round placing electric plugs in empty sockets…
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.
