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August 2008
27 Aug 2008
Thermageddon anyone?
Posted by: Ed Gillespie

We spend a lot of out time talking climate change lingo, words that work or indeed 'Words that sell'. This week I did a short interview with BBC Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth' programme which was explori..
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22 Aug 2008
Environment vs. Credit Crunch
Posted by: Nyree Ambarchian

Excerpt from Shades of Green (Nyree’s wonderful column which appears in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph every Saturday).The question of the hour…Will sustainability stay at the foref..
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18 Aug 2008
Rhetoric and what's right...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie

It's sobering to realise how feeble most of the orators of today are in comparison to the greats of yesteryear. I received an email today from Kate at ContaminantMedia which had the following Martin..
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18 Aug 2008
The Sustainability Decathlon…
Posted by: Nyree Ambarchian

Whilst glued to the telly, watching the coverage of the Olympics over the weekend, I started to wonder whether sustainable development could take a few pointers from the Games. Or rather, one game i..
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15 Aug 2008
Climate change: delivered by the postman
Posted by: Sinclair Ashman

Darn it! Someone else got there first. I was flicking through the Observer last Sunday, when I came across an article by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, talking about his recent visit to Gree..
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15 Aug 2008
Tears of a cloud
Posted by: Henry Hicks

I love do the green thing. Their videos are so spot on, humourous and effective I don't even need to comment. This month they take on bottled water. Just watch this and check out the site.Make mine ..
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12 Aug 2008
My first “Swish”…
Posted by: Geraldine Brennan

Last night I was christened into Swishing. The ‘Summer Swish’ was held at Futerra and filmed by the BBC for this Saturday’s Breakfast Show – no pressure ladies…&n..
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07 Aug 2008
Commander in Briefs
Posted by: Laurie Bennett

OMG The US presidential race has just been like totally energised.Lending her all-over-tanned, bikini-clad opinion to the well-publicised energy debate between McCain ('that wrinkly white-haired guy..
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07 Aug 2008
Picture adaptation...
Posted by: Laurie Bennett

What's the brief for writing about climate change? Perhaps... ‘Get the message across about the gravity of climate change impacts (we need people to understand how bad it could be…), ..
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06 Aug 2008
'Ain't gettin' on no plane fool'
Posted by: Ed Gillespie

More cross-blogging fun...the 'sane and rational' Mr Michael O'Leary gave a frankly mental interview the other day which I have blogged about here. To paraphrase the words of the inimitable 'Mr T(re..
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05 Aug 2008
All the Fun of the Fete
Posted by: Henry Hicks

Ed and I were invited as VNPs (Very Nice People - natch) to the Innocent Village Fete on Sunday and, well it was lovely. The Fete is also a really fun and clever way to spend a marketing budget - th..
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04 Aug 2008
Let's go fly a kite!
Posted by: Ed Gillespie

Remember building your first kite out of bits of bamboo and binbags? Remember attempting to get it airborne in scarcely a breath of wind, your younger brother repeatedly hurling the crude contraptio..
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01 Aug 2008
Weeping Tears of Oniony Joy
Posted by: Henry Hicks

[Yes 'oniony' is a word, countdown fans]I love The Onion. I love (the old) Superman films. I also love Al Gore quite a lot. So this piece on The Onion entitled 'Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket T..
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