Andy Hobsbawm at TED
Just noticed that Andy’s TED talk is up explaining Do The Green Thing. I’m a big fan.
Tag Archives: Sustainability
Walking to India without any money
Great little piece on the Today Programme this morning about a guy who’s going to try to walk to India from Bristol relying entirely on generosity and exchange for food and shelter. He’s not taking any money with him. Listen here.
VegExchange.com
One of the possibilities we considered in the Retail Futures work I did with Forum for the Future last year was the idea of allotment produce trading. Well here it comes – VegExchange.com got a good plug on Broadcasting House this morning. Forum for the Future
Carbon Complications
I’ve written before about how complicated things are going to get as climate change becomes a much more mainstream issue. Adrian Hon has a good piece looking at a paper about the carbon emissions from various foods grown in the UK and New Zealand.
Mainstream Green
I went along to Grand Designs Live yesterday in a very big shed in London’s Docklands. It was amazing to see how mainstream eco-living is becoming. I remember when the only place you could really see renewables demonstrated was CAT in Wales, but now there are hundreds of companies getting in on the act. The [...]
Managing Eden
Just been listening to the current edition of BBC Radio 4′s In Business about Tim Smit, the founder of the Eden Project. Really interesting. Tim is a pretty unconventional entrepreneur and leader but a very effective one. Well worth a listen again.
Lurching between optimism and pessimism
Just noticed that the RSA have put up a transcript (pdf) of the climate change event last year where I responded to the Treasury’s Michael Jacobs. My short talk was about the emotionally exhausting nature of the climate change issue – how it has developed an uneasy relationship between optimism and pessimism. Also noticed that [...]
Tiptheplanet
A little while back I met Tom Savage at a event about social enterprise. Tom is behind Tiptheplanet which is a kind of editable ‘How To’ guide to being more sustainable. It strikes me as a genuinely useful use of a wiki – as Tom explains: From little things, like cleaning your leather shoes with [...]
