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- @mjwalexander Thank you. You acknowledged your role had a responsibility & acted on it. If only Dow would do the same ow.ly/8GXdq #bhopal
- London 2012 Olympics ethics adviser Meredith Alexander quits over Bhopal sponsor link | http://t.co/mSxvb1TR via @Fareeta:
- Time to down tools... People who work 11+ hrs a day twice as likely to suffer major depression as those working 8hr day http://t.co/u9JuP3Cj
- Nice one Gav... RT @the_ecologist: Hello THTC, hello seriously cool, seriously green street wear: http://t.co/HQwRVVLM
- Is the carbon stocks bubble set to burst? A case of when rather than if... http://t.co/jFChAsd7 #bigpicinvestment
- Here's hoping. 2012 to be the best year ever for clean-tech investment http://t.co/Ab9dwROU via @GreenMarketBlog #bigpicinvestment
- .@idleracademy non solem video
- isn the UK more Vaclav Havel or Kim Jong Il? Secret laws to limit free speech during Olympics, suggest the latter http://t.co/FPEgMF4i
- Weimar Berlin got wild debauches, decadent art, trannie cabarets, Brecht+ Lang. We've got to step up our democracy-in-decline scene.
- @AfroGardener I take it husband doesn't follow your tweets...
- RT @AndrewSimms_nef: Brazil World cup seeks "legacy in defence of peace". UK legacy promotes shopping in Westfield http://t.co/v0ShHY1g
- @elvisandkresse The Elves are hard at work? Or is it the Elvis? x
- 58% of donations to Tories in 3rd Q of 2011 from finance, hedge funds, private equity and other city types. http://t.co/LzWVCZ3L
- Somebody who is 22 yrs old today has been alive while 1/2 of all the oil ever burned has been burnt. via @BeyondGreenUK
- RT @JeremyLeggett: Work in PR for nuclear or gas? Sick of all the lies being spun about renewables? Leak us the masterplan. Make kids proud.
- Now Danny Boyle's directing Olympic opening ceremony and Underworld in charge of music... we just might pull this off http://t.co/aSWPaAUB
- Alan Turing practically invented computer. Yet UK Gov criminalised him for being gay. Sign petition for his pardon http://t.co/2C6KbRYn
- The habitability of Kepler-22 is one thing, but what's its credit rating? Everyone knows that's much more important. via @WillWiles
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- Mar 10, 11The three questions you have to ask yourself when planning a trip from Moscow to Vladivostok on The Trans-Siberian Express – the world’s longest unbroken train journey – are when, how and why? Or to be more precise – when’s the best time of year to travel through Siberia? How am I going to get … Read more
- Mar 10, 11It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of holidaying through Europe conjured up two opposing ideas, both of which most of us were unlikely to do. At one extreme was interrailing, typically taking a month out to join the throng of students slumming their way from hostel to campsite, party to menial job. The … Read more
- Jul 06, 09Considering the endless cycle of televised appeals, the global conferences to alleviate hunger and the ubiquitous twentysomethings standing on street corners asking us to fill out direct debit forms, one might assume that the more that rich countries give to the Third World, the better things would be there. So when the United Nations Development … Read more
- Jul 06, 09Last week I attended a conference for a campaign to gain legal rights for all living beings from trees to tigers, which argued that only when they have such rights can they be properly represented in a court of law. Aside from being truly fascinating and considerably brain stretching at times, it was remarkable for … Read more
- Jun 23, 09In the six years I spent at the Ecologist magazine from 2001-2007, there was only one issue we really shied away from tackling properly. And that was tourism. We wrote a few articles on topics such as the draining of Spanish water tables for golf courses but we never really looked at whether there might … Read more
- Jun 16, 09What remains of the once mighty Caledonian Forest is fast being eroded by an ever-increasing population of deer. Without reintroducing their natural predator, the wolf, to the wilds of Scotland, the forest and its ecosystem are in danger of disappearing forever. For most of the earth’s history, Scotland was covered in trees – a vast … Read more
- Dec 05, 07When two members of the Ongee meet, they don’t inquire after each others’ health, but ask instead: ‘How is your nose?’ Living on the Andaman Islands, out in the Indian Ocean, the Ongee universe is defined by smell. The passing of the year is marked by the scents of differing flowers as they come into … Read more
- Nov 22, 07“No more of parental rules! We’re heading for the snow! Good riddance to those grown up ghouls! We’re leaving! Yukon Ho!” Calvin and Hobbs Few head to the mountains and come back disappointed. After months of drudge and commute, what can beat the exhilarating freedom of the slopes, the joy of a cold beer … Read more
- Nov 10, 07September 9, 2000. Coming from all around the country by cover of night, an unlikely and ramshackle force of farmers and lorry drivers meet at the gates of the Stanlow petrol refinery near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. Quickly they turn their vehicles across the road, blocking the entrance. 60 tanker drivers are now trapped inside, … Read more
- Jun 10, 07A bumblebee careens clumsily about a lone yellow foxglove, surrounded by row upon row of lavender bushes, their flowers oscillating gently in the breeze. The sun beats down on my neck. I pick a head from a nearby plant, roll its buds between my fingers and inhale its distinctive scent. I sigh happily. Mmm… Mitcham. … Read more
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- Carrot Mob : A new way to influence businesses
Carrotmob aims to gives people the power to make the world a better place by influencing how businesses operate. Instead of organizing boycotts, carrotmobbers offer to spend money as a group if a business agrees to make a socially responsible change.
There’s already been over 175 campaigns all over the world and now it’s looking to do the same thing with big companies!
- Unilever Australia makes every employee 'Head of Sustainability"
As part of its “plans to halve its environmental footprint while doubling its size, Unilever Australia is appointing every staff member as its new Head of Sustainability”, reports Sustainable Life Media.
According to the story, every employee will receive “a personalized ‘Head of Sustainability’ business card, along with a ‘job manual’ outlining Unilever’s business case for sustainability and why each employee has been given the new title.”
- point in time #17
There will be 602.7 million smart meters installed throughout the world by 2o16, according to research firm Berg Insight. That represents a compound annual growth rate of 26.6 percent between 2010 and 2016.
- Certified sustainable: A recipe for disaster?
Sustainable is the latest buzzword in fisheries management and seafood retailing. But with experts predicting that fish stocks will be gone by 2048, can any commercially exploited marine species be classed as truly sustainable?
- point in time #16
It will take 48 billion dollars a year to provide the world’s poorest people with electricity, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency. America spends about the same money each year feeding its pets.
people are beginning to remember that organisms in the rest of the natural world are doing things very similar to what we need to do, but they’re doing it in a way that has allowed them to live gracefully on this planet for millions of years.
if we can’t help create sustainable communities where we operate, we won’t have a sustainable business. It needs to be embedded in your business as opposed to inserted in your corporate social responsibility report.
Muhtar Kent, CEO Coca Cola, in an interview with the Harvard Business Review- Better Block helps communities build better communities
All the cool kids love Pop-up. Temporary installations that surprise and delight and remind us of what is possible. Pop-up shops appear in disused spaces. Pop-up restaurants give us a brief break from our usual range of local eateries.
How far can this situationist approach be taken? The “Better Block” project is using it to inspire communities to reclaim their urban space. So far it has created pop-ups ranging from a children’s art studio to a flower market. In the language of Pop-up, every empty space is an opportunity waiting to be filled.
- Company turns plastic back into crude oil
When plastic is recycled, all manner of products made from it. But, the reality is 75% of post consumer plastic waste is still sent to landfill. So anything that reduces that is de facto A GOOD THING. Right?
Yes, but it gets a bit confusing when that thing reduces the plastic by turning it back into oil, ready to be used again, with all the climate related effects that implies?
According to Vadxx, the company behind the innovation, each unit it installs reduces landfill deposits by 10,000 to 14,000 tins a year. And this in turn reduces dependency on foreign oil. So until renewable energies scale up to the degree necessary to meet all our needs, it seems this sort of energy from waste solution maybe just what is needed to fill the gap. It certainly beat drilling the Arctic, which the Obama administration approved on September 5th.
- Paris starts electric car sharing scheme
After the success of their much emulated Velib bike hire scheme, the french capital has started a trial of an electric car hire scheme, hoping to have 3,000 cars being shared on the streets of Paris by the end of 2012.
- Cerealisation... the corporate history of breakfast
Or something. At least I avoided the pun on Cereal Killers. Anyway, loving this infographic on the corporate development of cereal.
- Solar powered plane takes off
Forget biofuels, could this be the first sign of a truly green aviation industry?
“The Elektra One, flies using only electrical power, and charges its batteries in a solar powered hanger. Even the wings of the plane feature solar panels, which provide the juice needed for a little extra range. Unlike any other plane at the show, or any other plane its size in the world; the Elektra One is totally emissions neutral.”
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- SummaryWriter, Producer, Book Author, Journalist, Magazine Editor, Web Editor, Film Editor, Interviewer, Sustainability Consultant, DJSpecialties: environment, sustainable business, ecotourism, travel, language, literature, nature, food, globalisation, localisation, cultures, digital, music, electronica.Experience
- 2010 - PresentChief Content Curator / Big Picture
- Dec 2008 - PresentFounder and Editor / Ivili
- 2009 - 2010Editor / Big Picture TV
- Dec 2007 - Apr 2009Author / Rough Guides
- 2007 - 2007Producer / Friction.tv
- 2001 - 2007Editor / The Ecologist Magazine
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