Top 5: Green Thinking Bands
Whilst self-destruction is at the beating heart of rock n roll, planetary destruction is seemingly off the agenda nowadays, with more and more musicians and bands jumping on the biofuel powered eco-bandwagon, and doing...
Author: Thomas
Cupboard love?
Looking around the cupboards in the house I share with three friends, it seems the current economic crisis is really hitting home. While the shelves are still just as well stocked as ever, where...
A Bloke’s Guide To Valentine’s Day
Right lads, listen in. You know it, I know it, and most of all, the girls know it. Valentine’s day is a chore. Like most chores, ignoring it and hoping it will go away...
Shop online to save the planet…
At a time when green buzz-words such as ‘food miles’, ‘shop local’ and ‘slow fashion’ are being bandied about by just about everyone with any kind of environmental conscience, doing your shopping online may...
Bright Ideas and Baby Steps
My gran used to have a saying (don’t think she made it up, I’ve heard loads of people use it since) that went something like “Learn to crawl before you try to walk!” Normally,...
Harry Hill goes (Fairtrade) Nuts!
Harry Hill, the massive-collared former doctor turned off the wall comedian, is to launch a brand new range of salted peanuts with our friends over at Liberation! Nuts in order to show his support...
Our Friends Electric?
After last week’s hypermiling post, I decided to look into other ways of cutting down on the amount you spend (and burn) at the petrol pump. Hypermiling, after all, can get you a long...
Hypermiling (or how I learned to stop worrying and love the pump)
Hypermiling – the latest buzz word on the green motoring circuit – is not, as you might think, some crazy Star Trek inspired commuting technique, but it is, in fact a way to ensure...
Our disposable culture continues…
German firm DVD-D have launched ‘Einmal’, a disposable DVD format which is designed to facilitate DVD ‘rental’ from coffee shops, service stations and other such locations where movie rental was not previously possible. Retailing...
Are they taking the…
No, actually, they’re not. Sevin Coskun’s entry to Treehugger’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition is remarkable in both it’s simplicity, fuctionality and message, but you have to wonder what would motivate someone to install a...
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