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May 2008
27 May 2008
Suzy Hughes' 'Vision of a Positive Future'
Posted by: Doug Stewart
All prospective Futerra interns are asked to perpare a creative piece under the title, 'Visions of a Positive Future'. Here is Suzy Huges submission.School ReportDate: 27 May 2058Name: Paul Pea..
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27 May 2008
'A Positive Future', by Summer intern Shreeya Sinha
Posted by: Doug Stewart
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. There’s nothing ..
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25 May 2008
歓迎。
Posted by: Doug Stewart
The Southbank rocks. Check out the graffiti tunnel behind Waterloo for photographic fun. Friends on Facebook can see my efforts and here’s one to welcome Laurie home.
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23 May 2008
Laurie in Kyoto
Posted by: Laurie Bennett
I'm in Kyoto at the moment, home of the (in)famous protocol. Although Kyoto doesn't seem to have gone to town as such on tackling climate change (for every bicycle there still exists a hectare of ne..
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22 May 2008
More gadgets
Posted by: Doug Stewart
I’ve been trailing Bye Bye Standby. It is a remote controled device that alows you to turn off a plug with out the hassel, stress and planning needed to flick a switch. All you need to do is p..
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22 May 2008
Worm update.
Posted by: Doug Stewart
The worms are full again and they were a bit smelly on Tuesday so I added some bokashi and some acid neutralising worm food but I think it might be weeks before their next meal. Maybe they are train..
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22 May 2008
Eco Techno
Posted by: Doug Stewart
I’ve just arrived home from sustainabilitylive at the NEC where I was attending the Kyocera Green Card Conference. I had gone under the guise of education and networking but really it was beca..
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21 May 2008
Come and knock on my door
Posted by: Lulu Kitololo
Last night, I attended an event hosted by Groundwork North London to present the results of an 18 month green behaviour change project that Futerra had collaborated on. Targeted towards Islington re..
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21 May 2008
A billionaire oil-man's response to climate change
Posted by: David Willans
"Opponents say it's going to cost so much money to address. And I say, well, hell, go ahead and spend it. I'd rather take change that I'm right than that I'm wrong. I don't want to wait until..
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20 May 2008
Biofuel reggae...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Gotta love this wee skanking ditty, an unexpectedly upbeat contribution to the current 'food vs fuel' controversy surrounding corn ethanol and the like, and I bet you never thought you'd feel like b..
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19 May 2008
Climate change cartoon...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...a bit of creative genius from Private Eye. Never mind the climate cataclysm how much is my house worth?!
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16 May 2008
Compassion fatigue?
Posted by: Georgina Combes
In recent years I’ve been very impressed by Christian Aid’s communications. Their red luggage tag-shaped identity is eye-catching, memorable and cleverly flexible in its design. The char..
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15 May 2008
Walk the talk
Posted by: Doug Stewart
At Futerra we are experimenting with a bokashi system and a wormery from wiggly wrigglers to process our kitchen waste. Each week I will be providing a worm update for anyone that shares my fascinat..
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15 May 2008
Gadgets
Posted by: Doug Stewart
I’ve been trialing an Owl energy monitor at home and aside from reminding me how much more electricity the kettle uses that any other appliance (other than the hair dryer) it has also been int..
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15 May 2008
Positive News
Posted by: Doug Stewart
I had a great reminder this weekend to look for the positives around me. On Wednesday I read the 2007 IPCC report which was a stark reminder of why we are working so hard to engage the world a..
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15 May 2008
Laugh? I nearly caused irreversible anthropogenic climate change!
Posted by: Henry Hicks
Nice piece in last week's Guardian about comedians' attempts to make climate change funny and just how bloomin' difficult it is. Comedy can be a powerful tool for societal change but it often n..
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15 May 2008
Passive Aggressive Internal Comms
Posted by: Henry Hicks
Ah the hastily scribbled, passive aggressive note! Is there a more fascinating example of how not to communicate? We've all experienced it as colleagues, flatmates or customers; as audienc..
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13 May 2008
Are you the next Blockbuster?
Posted by: Henry Hicks
I enjoyed this short piece on the Onion News Network: Historic ‘Blockbuster’ Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past. It's a cutting little video about the demise..
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13 May 2008
Danish bike envy
Posted by: Georgina Combes
I recently visited Copenhagen and fell in love… with a bike. Despite its battered appearance and cries for a good oiling, my trusty stead – a classic sit-up-and-beg-style bike as favour..
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13 May 2008
Climate Change Bill Communications
Posted by: David Willans
By the end of the year we will know the nitty gritty of the Climate Change Bill. Speculation aside, we know it will set carbon budgets for the next five years. To achieve these budgets, the largest..
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09 May 2008
The Airship Adventure
Posted by: Laurie Bennett
I don’t know about you, but the Hardy Boys books constitute a fond era in my life. Indeed, thinking back to the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy (who, like most fictional amateur detect..
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08 May 2008
Annoying Acronyms
Posted by: Fiona Cameron
Acronyms, they were meant to be handy little letters that saved time and made things simpler. So how did it all get so complicated? I saw the Iron Man recently and there was this running joke that..
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08 May 2008
Green communicator, 24, Male, WLTM...
Posted by: Laurie Bennett
Some people say the green community is a bit ‘close’. Come to think of it, I’m sure I’ve seen surreptitious winks across tables at CSR conferences (not to mention the odd str..
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08 May 2008
Am I bovvered?
Posted by: Lulu Kitololo
I was reading a Seth Godin post about pretending to care and his closing statement really resonated with behaviour change learning in New Rules: New Game.“So, the essence of the lesson here is..
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07 May 2008
Carbon Confusion
Posted by: Pete Clutton-Brock
I’m a Forum for the Future master’s student currently on placement at Futerra. While here I am looking at Futerra’s carbon footprint. Futerra use a green energy supplier called Goo..
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07 May 2008
Apocalypse now?
Posted by: Georgina Combes
I don’t usually buy girlie glamour mags, although I’ll happily flick through them in the dentist waiting room, but this month’s Marie Claire caught my eye. Contained in a brown pap..
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06 May 2008
Greenwash - it's been emulsional
Posted by: Henry Hicks
Greenwash is certainly a hot topic right now and the green gloss of some companies (and their marketing agencies) is flaking in the heat.As we've pointed out in our Greenwash Guide, greenwashing is ..
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01 May 2008
High Tech Trash
Posted by: Steve Smith
Technology is changing the way we do, well, everything. The tech industry is the place from where innovation and ingenuity come, and where solutions to one of the most rapidly growing environme..
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01 May 2008
When it's okay to shoot the messenger
Posted by: Lulu Kitololo
Those of us in the creative industry enjoy a freedom unlike many professions that have formal codes of practice. Not only do we lack stringent rules to follow but in fact are often encouraged to dar..
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01 May 2008
Positive learning
Posted by: Emily Wilkinson
This great article was in the Society section of yesterday's Guardian. Madeleine Bunting writes about programmes that promote wellbeing in schools, arguing that we have developed a "culture of ..
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01 May 2008
The Customer is Listening
Posted by: Jeff Melnyk
“I just don’t think we are communicating here. I’m trying to explain but you aren’t listening.”I was listening. My accountant had just informed me that she ..
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