Is Honey Good for You?
It’s been eulogised in holy scriptures, but is honey actually good for you? Fig 1: Apis mellifera, the Western or European honey bee © All rights reserved, Lord V1 Honey has been eulogized in...
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If it’s melted, it’s ruined!
That’s the awesome new slogan from Ben and Jerry’s latest e-mail, and in case you haven’t seen it, they’re looking for young people, age 18-30 to travel on an expedition to the Arctic to...
No more dirty water
Here’s a great invention, it’s a water bottle that filters dirty H20 to make lovely clean potable water. Read the full story at the telegraph’s site. Includes fascinating facts about the size of a...
Design Can Change
“Design Can Change is simple. It works on the belief that our industry can make positive change by working together. Use this resource as a starting point to help bring our community together to...
Get stuff, give stuff, save the planet.
The internet is the home of some great ideas (and admittedly, some rubbish ones, but we’ll not go there), but few come close to the total and utter brilliance of Freecycle, a network of...
Friday chocolate-o-rama!
Mmmmmm chocolate. New arrival at Ethical Superstore this week is Green & Black’s organic cherry chocolate. Did you know? Chocolate was created by the Mesoamerican civilization, and cultivated by Mayans and Aztecs. The word...
Wind Power in Africa
I’ve been aware of this blog for a while now, and I’m surprised it’s not really been picked up by the regular media yet. Anyway, without further ado, introducing Mr. William Kamkwamba: http://williamkamkwamba.typepad.com/williamkamkwamba/ He’s...
Black Gold Review
This movie documents a simply, unfair story – 2 billion cups of coffee are drunk every day in the £40 billion world coffee market, yet only a handful of powerful corporations including Kraft, Nestle,...
Climate Change in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
Photographer Jeff Barbee is used to getting himself into precarious situations. Prompted by a desire to document the effects of climate change for himself, Barbee set out to sail half way across the Atlantic....