In Pure Spirit

In this video David Pagan Butler – a man with a great name and a record of making films for the BBC on natural swimming pools – shows us the highlights behind his own natural swimming pool. A more detailed guide and DVD are available from Green-Shopping.co.uk. In the meantime this video serves to inspire [...]

Patrick Clair as produced a fantastic video which asks; “How Green is your internet?” and in it people may discover the web is browner than they thought. Apple and Facebook are two villians in the piece. Google and Yahoo are two of the best. In particular, Google is trying to be carbon neutral, has set [...]

These three YouTube videos are a sample of superb character design and animated comedy. More than that; they’re a pro-green message given in a friendly, fun and easy to consume way. We need more ads like this in order to ensure the green message embeds with the younger generations. In Pure Spirit Which was your [...]

Google tries to be green. The company is certainly investing a lot in green energy – although part of this is commerical wisdom; Google consumes a lot of energy and traditional prices will only rise. Data centres are big factory like buildings which house all the computer servers companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL use. [...]

Quite a lot of people have dismissed the .WWF format as a joke. A spoof or viral marketing campaign by WWF Germany. It’s easy to see why. If you pop over to Save as .WWF you’ll be told there’s only a Mac version ready. You have to Facebook Like the page to be alerted once [...]

Fonterra controls about 30% of the world’s diary exports. The company is owned by more than 10,500 New Zealand famers and has revenues in excess of NZ$16 billion. Fonterra is also the target of the Dutch arm of Greenpeace. Greenpeace’s beef with Fonterra is over the company’s use of palm kernel. The pressure group points [...]

Samsung are keen to keep the focus on their green efforts. In fact, they’ve a whole sub-brand called Samsung Green Memory. How is memory green? Samsung’s point is that memory which uses less power is greener. Of course, this isn’t really a big number for people off the street but when you’re talking about companies [...]

The online farmers’ market Natoora have redesigned and relaunched their website. To mark the occasion they’re giving new customers £50 off, there are conditions, you need to use the code Natoora50 before 15th November and can claim here*. The new site looks slick and trustworthy. Natoora is already well known to ethical eaters and it [...]

One disk has been deployed in the moat of Osaka Castle and the other for Osaka’s Dontoburi canal. Sadly, the alien cleaners aren’t commercially available as they’re not cost effective. They’ve been bought to run along with the 2009 Osaka Aqua Metropolis festival.

The Australian town of Bundanoon has raised the bar of ecological wisdom by voting to ban bottled water. Why? A tremendous amount of resources goes into bottled water; there’s the extraction, the packaging and then the transport. In many cases there’s the litter afterwards too.

In many countries the health quality standards of tap water are stricter than bottled water ones. For example, in the UK the quality of water form the tap is held to a higher standard than from the bottle. The reason is simple; problems with the mains supply are a horror to fix, effect thousands of people and are best detected and prevented early. Bottled water is easier to deal with.

Bundanoon is a small town with less than 2,500 in population but perhaps this is the starting moving in a more popular trend.