Seven easy steps to living a greener life, all wrapped up in a very cool and accessible package.
This site really is terrific and crucially it keeps things REAL.
The seven things are simple to follow and integrate into your own life without having to completely abandon all the benefits of 21st century living.
Walk the Walk
Stay Grounded
All Consuming
Easy on the Meat
Human Heat
Plug Out
Stick With What You Got
The Green Thing can introduce himself far better than I can so please watch and enjoy!
Check out the highly interactive website for some great tips on living a greener life and some fantastically inventive videos: Website
For lots more click here Visually and conceptually incredible! It makes you wonder, if as a race, we can dream and create such amazing, natural structures, why are we killing ourselves trying to live in the urban concrete jungle???
There’s a YouTube video that’s taking the world by storm and it features HRH Prince Charles and a giant frog … now there’s something I don’t get to type everyday!
It’s terrific. Please watch the video below and tell us what you think and if you want to, you can sign up at www.rainforestsos.org
There has been a recent spate of celebrity backing for important public campaigns, for example Joanna Lumley has recently lead an impassioned and successful campaign on behalf of the Gurkhas. Currently Richard Briers is encouraging people to ‘extend the carrot of friendship’ to their local politicians on behalf of Greenpeace; giving his backing to Airplot anti-Heathrow expansion campaign.
What are your opinions on royal and celebrity endorsements?
Does it make a difference?
Does it make you act?
Do you trust their motives?
We would love to know what you think.
Ps. look out for the Special Guest Appearance from Kurmit the frog…
It seems even on a local and relatively small scale level, people are standing back in absolute awe at the catastrophic environmental mistakes local Councils are able to make, seemingly unstoppable in their ignorance and unanswerable to their blunders.
Whilst at Governmental level Gordon Brown, for all of his many, failings, is waking up to environmental sensibilities:
”Environmental sustainability is not an option – it is a necessity. We have a compelling and ever more urgent duty of stewardship to take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity and social fabric depends…”
It seems many Councils agree in principle, but clearly think this ‘stewardship’ does not apply to them.
Torbay Council is a shining example of this. The decision to demolish Rock Walk – aside from the fact that it’s a major feature on the sea front of what is essentially a tourist destination, supposedly renowned for its beauty - the wanton demolition of trees and foliage hundreds of years old, has proved catastrophic and has enraged local people.
The cliff face was striped because ‘the trees might fall down’. This has not only irrevocably scarred the landscape, but shock horror – it turns out it was the trees that were holding the cliff face up, Doh!!
After chaining themselves to the entrance of Southampton airport in February, 6 of the 7 anti-aviation expansion protesters have admitted to aggravated trespass and fined a total of £2,000.
The demonstration was designed to focus attention on the human impact of climate change – it is estimated that rising sea levels will create approximately 2 million refugees by the year 2050. Given than Southampton is a coastal conurbation, this has particular resonance and adds another dimension to the arguments surrounding the plans to expand the airport.
BAA hopes to increase passenger traffic for Southampton Airport from 1.5 million passengers a year to 3 million by 2015. The planned expansion of Southampton airport, together with the 34 other regional airports in the UK, will do enough damage to the climate to force an estimated 1.3 million people in impoverished parts of the world to flee raising sea levels, flooding, drought and famine.
Pete Barker of Plane Stupid said “It’s crazy to imagine that we can tackle the serious threat posed by runaway climate change whilst still allowing airports to expand.”
To find out more about this and other anti-aviation campaigns visit: www.planestupid.com
1. Increased flying is one of the main culprits of climate change.
2. The government commitment to the reduction of UK CO2 emissions by 80% by 2050, cannot hope to be achieved if the aviation industry continues to expand at the proposed rate.
3. If the 3rd runway goes ahead, Heathrow will become the UK’s single greatest producer of CO2
4. An independent study of the proposed 3rd runway suggests that the true cost of a third runway would lead to a £5 billion loss.
5. Included in the destinations industry is most keen to expand from Heathrow, are Manchester, Paris & Edinburgh, clearly destinations reachable by the train or bus alternatives which are over ten times less polluting.
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