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21 Dec 2007
New blog! Emily and Lulu launch Crossed Wires

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New blog! Emily and Lulu launch Crossed Wires
Crossed Wires is a blog about communication, interaction, creativity and sustainability. http://futerra.typepad.com/crossedwires Enjoy!
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05 Dec 2007
Energy-saving eel-umination

Posted by: Futerra team

An aquarium in Japan has found a particularly innovative way of tackling the slippery issue of festive lighting.

Whenever the electic eel touches a copper wire in its tank, it generat..
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12 Oct 2007
Al Gore and the IPCC win Nobel Peace Prize!

Posted by: Futerra team

Futerra are thrilled that climate change campaigner Al Gore and the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have been jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

We love Al's Oscar..
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05 Oct 2007
Ben & Jerry’s launch Climate College

Posted by: Futerra team

The deadline to apply to Ben & Jerry’s Climate College is on the 24th October. So if you’re 18-30 and want the opportunity to take part in a 9-month business mentoring programme, receive a €7,000 gr..
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04 Oct 2007
The Road...

Posted by: Futerra team

This Pulitzer prize winning book by Cormac McCarthy is a gut-wrenching parable about a possible climate change devastated US. Ed spoke to a guy in a Melbourne bookshop who said 'I've read 100 books ..
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03 Oct 2007
Go on, do the Green Thing

Posted by: Futerra team

There has been a rash of websites designed to help people change their behaviour. Some good, others bad. But none have really taken combined new media technologies and behaviour change thinking as w..
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03 Oct 2007
FUH2

Posted by: Futerra team

Ed's off gallivanting around the world, but still has his finger on the pulse of sustainability's more creative and erm, direct, community. This one came in from him.

If you are easi..
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06 Sep 2007
RE:FASHION Awards website launched...

Posted by: Futerra team

The RE:Fashion Awards is the ultimate event in ethical fashion and now the website is live!

RE:Fashion aims to improve social, environmental and economic standards in the fashion indu..
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31 Jul 2007
Seth Godin

Posted by: Futerra team

Truth be told, he's been hot for a long time. We've been applying his work to sustainable development for years.

One of his This latest blog posts neatly outlines our approach to wor..
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25 Jul 2007
Who needs superheroes?

Posted by: Futerra team

'You don't have to be a superhero to save the planet' proclaims the latest climate change ad, made by CTC (the UK's national cyclists' organisation) with money from Defra's Tomorrow's Climate Today'..
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25 Jul 2007
Cadge-It website goes live

Posted by: Futerra team

Harry Potter step aside...

A ripple of excitement is moving through the male population...

The Cadge-IT website has just gone live.

So if you're keen to..
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03 Jul 2007
BT makes a better world

Posted by: Futerra team

BT has won Company of the Year at Business in the Community's 2007 Awards for Excellence. The best in class award recognises BT's leadership in responsible business practice.

BT has a..
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02 Jul 2007
Cycling

Posted by: Futerra team

Its cheap, green and great exercise!

Futerra loves cycling and we are looking foward to the Tour de France coming to London this weekend. Check out the action, get inspired and start..
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22 Jun 2007
Lights out London

Posted by: Futerra team

Londoners sent a huge message to the rest of the world about climate change on 21st June.

Lights went out across London’s iconic skyline as millions of Londoners switched off in supp..
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22 May 2007
Best environmental statement ever

Posted by: Futerra team

Tired of platitudes? Here's the best environmental statement ever from Sailor Jerry rum.

Link courtesy of PSFK.
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22 May 2007
11th hour launches at Cannes

Posted by: Futerra team

Taking up the mantel from Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio has launched his own environmental call to action - 11th hour – among the glamour set at Cannes.

Written and narrated by the film ..
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18 May 2007
Design can change

Posted by: Futerra team

Design can Change is a website on climate change especially for graphic designers. It shows how designers can change their impact and aims to create a community of green-conscious designers.
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17 May 2007
2 Million Plastic bottles...

Posted by: Futerra team

Wish you were here?

Perhaps not if you knew that this tranquil scene is made up of 24,000 logos of an American SUV - representing the number of SUVs sold every 6 weeks in the US.
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11 May 2007
Oxygen Positive Yet?

Posted by: Futerra team

Do you ever feel that being carbon neutral just isn't enough?

Maybe you should branch out and go Oxygen Positive! Your friends will be green with envy, and won't cost you an arm and a..
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11 May 2007
Albert Werner

Posted by: Futerra team

Albert’s an IT Manager at GE. He got them to change the computer power management settings on their 75,000 PCs.

It saved them $2.5 million a year in energy costs.

A l..
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08 May 2007
Launch your career in CSR

Posted by: Futerra team

BT’s ‘society and environment’ site features a number of resources for people interested in kick-starting a career in CSR.

Don’t miss the ‘Anatomy of the CSR professional’ designed b..
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01 May 2007
Facebook takes on Climate Change!

Posted by: Futerra team

Booming social networking site Facebook is keeping things cool with a new group raising money and political awareness to help mitigate climate change.

In just a week the group has att..
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13 Apr 2007
Too Hot to Handle!

Posted by: Futerra team

This great site gives you access to mountains of music from around the world. From Senegalese hip-hop, traditional music from the Middle East, booming bossa-nova from the favelas of Brazil to salsa..
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10 Apr 2007
Earth Vs Human Film

Posted by: Futerra team

This comic short film is a spoof of the Mac adverts, with the characters ‘Human’ and ‘Earth’. It focuses on the relationship between the planet and human beings, showing how it’s not cool to be comp..
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10 Apr 2007
Taking a journey through tourism...

Posted by: Futerra team

Hot on the heels of our very own Ed's slow travelling, sustainable tourism is hitting the headlines.

Last week saw the publication of ‘The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism’ by freelance j..
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02 Apr 2007
Lights off down under

Posted by: Futerra team

WWF Australia, the New South Wales government, The Sydney Morning Herald and a host of other businesses joined together to plunge Sydney into darkness for one hour at 7:30pm on 31st March. All to ra..
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30 Mar 2007
Crap at the Environment

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"Crap At The Environment is an attempt to start a movement of people who are concerned about climate change and environmental damage, yet, until now, have been completely or fairly shit at doing any..
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29 Mar 2007
Is the Future of Africa with China?

Posted by: Futerra team

The Global Development Forum challenged China’s growing investment in Africa given the complex balance between short term benefits to African consumers and negative effects of the proliferation of C..
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29 Mar 2007
Roll call for malaria

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The Futerra team recently met with Rob Mather, the founder of World Swim Against Malaria.

The aim of his life-saving initiative is simple. Globally, malaria is the single biggest kil..
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27 Mar 2007
Ethical Man US Style

Posted by: Futerra team

The BBC's Ethical Man concept, which started in February 2006, has made its way across the pond to New York.

In November 2006 Colin, Michelle, their two year-old daughter and four ye..
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26 Mar 2007
25th March: 200 Years since the Formal Abolition of Slavery

Posted by: Futerra team

Events across the country have marked this anniversary, offering opportunities for reflection and commemoration. This attention has brought many controversies to the fore, questioning once again, th..
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23 Mar 2007
Do it with the Kaiser Chiefs every night!

Posted by: Futerra team

Headline grabber or what!

Ben & Jerry's Climate Change Ambassador, Rob Bell, has teamed up with the Kaiser Chiefs to launch Unpluggit.

Check out the website for enviro..
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12 Mar 2007
Tales of 9 Lives

Posted by: Futerra team

Check out some fantastic stories of everyday folk trying to live more sustainably. All courtesy of Hampshire County Council's 9 Lives project.

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06 Mar 2007
Yes Minister, we need car share!

Posted by: Futerra team

Oyster card scheme for car share, intercity train, or local bus...?

Our good friends at Anti Apathy have just had lunch with Philip Igoe, a nice man who is developing an integrated sc..
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21 Feb 2007
Amazing photography...

Posted by: Futerra team

From a good friend of Futerra comes this rather wonderful site of incredible photos of the Greenland ice cap, taken for Greenpeace that have caused such a stir internationally revealing the extent o..
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20 Feb 2007
Australia!

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By 2010 they're going to phase out all incandescent bulbs!

They estimate it could save 4 million tonnes of carbon by 2012, let's hope other governments follow suit....

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17 Feb 2007
Whale Love Wagon...

Posted by: Futerra team

As the plucky campaigning ships from Sea Shepherd clash with Japanese Whalers in the Southern Ocean there's also a softer approach to understanding the Japanese relationship with our biggest mammals..
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14 Feb 2007
G-Wiz I Love You

Posted by: Futerra team

Fancy a bit of loving direct action? Join the Alliance Against Urban 4x4s in rewarding drivers of high tech environmentally friendly cars.

Just print out the Valentine's card and pos..
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12 Feb 2007
Cheat Neutral...

Posted by: Futerra team

This is an absolutely inspired idea just in time for Valentine's day! www.cheatneutral.com is a witty wee site that satirises the abdication of moral responsibility for dealing with the challenge of..
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26 Jan 2007
The mouth revolution...

Posted by: Futerra team

Boy do we put a lot of junk into our mouths...and a lot of the food we eat is also processed, genetically manipulated, fertilised, pesticided and generally buggered about with! Well, our gobs have n..
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26 Jan 2007
Love making music...

Posted by: Futerra team

...beyond the saucy ambiguity of the title, the Love Making Music website is host to the creative musical outpourings of a trilogy of diverse characters - including the Devil himself! But check out ..
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18 Jan 2007
The Big Melt on ITV...

Posted by: Futerra team

This week the ITV news team is doing a series of live reports from Antarctica, the first time a live news feed has been broadcast from the continent, on the effects that climate change is having the..
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13 Dec 2006
Stern Review Smack' em!

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Just when you thought the climate change debate had moved on and the detractors had finally retreated to the fringes, then suddenly the media seize on the Stern Review and trawl up the sceptics once..
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08 Dec 2006
Education to save the planet?...

Posted by: Futerra team

Check out this excellent video from Sweden's Eric Prydz. You may remember his previous rather saucy gym video of the aerobics class for 'Call on me', well this time he's gone all eco-conscious and t..
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21 Nov 2006
The Meatrix 2.5 - Cut the crap...

Posted by: Futerra team

Remember the Meatrix Part I and Part II? Well now the folks at FreeRange Studios have added another instalment of this pastiche of the Wachowski brothers trilogy, once again exposing the reality of..
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14 Nov 2006
Reeeeewwwwind!

Posted by: Futerra team

We're loving this great little animated film from the makers of the Meatrix and the hugely entertaining Store Wars. It's a very well styled animation that chronicles the life of a burger in reverse...
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09 Nov 2006
The Sun goes green…

Posted by: Futerra team

Irrefutable proof that climate change is now the UK's hottest topic: The Sun's very own green glamour queen Keeley tells readers how to "make temperatures soar while keeping global warming down".
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09 Oct 2006
unlimited spurt...

Posted by: Futerra team

This is the rather wonderful spoof website and film for the promotion of absolutely wanton unrestricted growth in airports, flights and subsequent carbon emissions. The voices of reason must be sile..
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09 Oct 2006
Make yourself count...

Posted by: Futerra team

"i count" is the campaign from Stop Climate Chaos the coalition that is demainding the Government take a lead on the global stage, working for an international agreement to cut climate pollution..
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08 Oct 2006
Sexing up fair trade...

Posted by: Futerra team

The Fair Trade at Work campaign has come up with this rather saucy take on fair trade in the office (which also stars a friend of Futerra, Henry, being rather provocative with a bar of chocolate!). ..
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28 Sep 2006
Turning Apples Green

Posted by: Futerra team

Greenpeace are continuing their creative approach to campaigning through a very well designed website. Although it doesn't have the humour of some of their other campaigns, they have embraced new te..
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20 Sep 2006
cradle to cradle design

Posted by: Futerra team

You’ve probably all heard about Dr Michael Braungart, eco-chemist and bold industrial innovator. Well, on the 8th of November there’s a unique opportunity to participate in a ‘first of its kind’ wor..
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18 Sep 2006
Di Caprio on climate change...

Posted by: Futerra team

Good old Leonardo is back again, once more joining the increasingly vocal ranks of politicised Hollywood types with the latest in his series of short animated presentations, this time on climate cha..
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04 Sep 2006
Walk Your Talk...

Posted by: Futerra team

Walk Your Talk is a brilliant gathering for people to inspire and be inspired about moving from great ideas into great actions. This is not a grandstanding 'top down' conference, but a truly partic..
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01 Sep 2006
Powerful environmental films...

Posted by: Futerra team

There are two poignant and provocative environmental docs being shown at the Birds Eye view film festival on 15th and 16th September at the ICA. They look really interesting, taking a very human per..
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18 Aug 2006
"We have to eat your car...

Posted by: Futerra team

...we are starving here, and want to eat your car!" Icelandic Calypso anyone? This genius sunny tune by the brilliant Bogomil has a wickedly catchy beat and one of the daftest but most inspired lyri..
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10 Aug 2006
Delabole Wind Fair 2006

Posted by: Futerra team

Our friends at Good Energy are hosting the inaugural , and free, Delabole Wind fair on 26th August. As well as having the opportunity to grill the South West’s finest renewable energy networks, ther..
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07 Aug 2006
Trevor Kavanagh - The Sun's Political Editor

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A sign of things to come?

On 31st July Trevor Kavanagh announced in The Sun that he's renouncing their Jeremy Clarkson line -

"Until this year, I've been a fully paid..
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03 Aug 2006
Who killed the electric car?

Posted by: Futerra team

Remember the numerous conspiracy theories that surround the demise or impracticalities of electric vehicles? Remember thinking 'well they sound great but do they really work?'. Well a new film out h..
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31 Jul 2006
Gas Guzzlers Begone!

Posted by: Futerra team

As the advertising industry has been at great pains to point out to us, our choice of car says a lot more about us than whether we are independently mobile or not. Powerful semiotics underpin your c..
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24 Jul 2006
Climate Care Animation...

Posted by: Futerra team

Climate Care the carbon offset company have just launched a rather natty little animation to help explain climate change and how their system actually works. It's simple and fun and should help disp..
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20 Jul 2006
Greenpeace Energy Revolution

Posted by: Futerra team

As the somewhat curious conclusions of the Energy Review are digested Greenpeace is stepping up its campaign on decentralised energy, the viable climate sensible option for future UK energy needs. ..
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14 Jul 2006
G8 On Record...

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In 2005 the G8 World leaders went ‘On Record’ and promised AIDS treatment for all who need it by 2010. But less than a year on and with only 4 years to go this target is already slipping because of ..
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03 Jul 2006
Sustainable Ads in their 100's

Posted by: Futerra team

UNEP's Production and Consumption Branch have added another great resource to their stable. The Creative Gallery on Sustainability Communications is a goldmine of corporate and public advertising ca..
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28 Jun 2006
Enoughs Enough!

Posted by: Futerra team

The "enough's enough!" campaign aims to highlight that when we've reached the end of the road on whatever it is that's bugging us, we must then decide to take action and deal with it. It aims to pro..
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26 Jun 2006
Give a hippo a home

Posted by: Futerra team

Hippos are free, very well-behaved, and don't require any looking after apart from the 1 minute they take to order and the 3 minutes they take to install in your toilet cistern, from where they save..
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10 May 2006
Return of the Yes Men...

Posted by: Futerra team

Some of you will no doubt remember the 'Yes Men' from previous mentions on the Futerra site when their movie was released a couple of years ago. Never ones to sit idle, their latest professional pie..
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27 Apr 2006
Renew US...

Posted by: Futerra team

These guys in the USA have taken a great angle on the climate challenge by making a retrospective film looking back on 2006 as the turning point in the story. Documentary style interviewees pass com..
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27 Apr 2006
An Inconvenient Truth...

Posted by: Futerra team

...is Al Gore's forthcoming film on climate change and the global challenge it represents. It's a passionate, inspirational and in many ways terrifying round up of the global warming phenomenon and ..
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19 Apr 2006
Turning the Tide...

Posted by: Futerra team

Futerra is pleased to announce that our good buddies at Anti-Apathy are having another one of their splendid themed nights of infotainment. Following on from the riotous success of last years Fashio..
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07 Apr 2006
Drove my Chevy to the levy...

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...but the levy had collapsed due to a storm surge from an unusually intense extended hurricane that had been caused by the abnormal superheating of surface waters in the Gulf of Mexico as a result ..
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31 Mar 2006
The Meatrix 2 - Revolting

Posted by: Futerra team

Those excellent guys at FreeRange have done it again and returned with another stunning animated take on the Matrix...The Meatrix 2 - Revolting. This time the focus is on industrial dairy farming in..
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29 Mar 2006
Nigel's Eco Store

Posted by: Futerra team

For all your ecologically sensible product needs Nigel's online store has a whole host of cool things. Whether it's the latest super efficient kettle, cutting edge designer furniture or a cardboard ..
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24 Mar 2006
National Come Off It Day...

Posted by: Futerra team

Let’s come off the grid, let’s come off our addiction to carbon-based power, and let’s say “Come off it” to all those who pretend we still need dirty old-style fossil and nuclear power.

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16 Mar 2006
Green TV Launch

Posted by: Futerra team

green.tv, the world’s first broadband TV channel dedicated to environmental issues, will launch on March 20th 2006. green.tv is being developed with support from the United Nations Environment Prog..
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15 Mar 2006
Cycling facility...

Posted by: Futerra team

Those of us who brave the congested roads of Britain's cities will no doubt relate to the rather splendid Cycling Facility of the Month section of the Warrington Cycle Campaign website. Phone boxes ..
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14 Mar 2006
Amory destroys nuclear case...

Posted by: Futerra team

Last night (13th March) the legendary Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute gave a devastating assessment of the economics and climate protection potential of nuclear energy. His conclusions?..
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22 Feb 2006
Every little hurts...

Posted by: Futerra team

Tesco now controls 30% of the grocery market in the UK. In 2005, the supermarket chain announced over £2 billion in profits. Growing evidence indicates that Tesco's success is partly based on tradin..
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22 Feb 2006
Britons support green taxes

Posted by: Futerra team

The latest poll from the Guardian/ICM shows that the British public is far more supportive of fiscal mechanisms to change behaviour than the Government might like us to believe. The poll shows that ..
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21 Feb 2006
Boost for Green Energy Investment

Posted by: Futerra team

GREEN energy companies are riding high after George Bush of all people endorsed alternative fuels as a way of weaning Americans off their oil addiction . Renewable energy stocks were soaring even be..
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21 Feb 2006
Sweden to go 'oil free'

Posted by: Futerra team

Those ever sensible Scandinavians have done it again, with a Government commitment to go oil free and increase their energy independence, WITHOUT going down a nuclear route. Great to see the Swedes ..
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10 Feb 2006
New SD Scene Newsletter

Posted by: Futerra team

Defra has just launched a new bi-monthly newsletter "SD Scene". The idea behind the e-publication is to give regular updates on progress right across Government towards more sustainable development...
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20 Jan 2006
War against (nuclear) terror...

Posted by: Futerra team

Greenpeace are continuing their somewhat 'in your face' style messaging around climate change and the resurrection of the nuclear power zombie from the energy grave.

Check out their l..
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17 Jan 2006
Public attitudes to nuclear?

Posted by: Futerra team

New Tyndall Centre research on public attitudes towards nuclear energy comes up with some tough findings for the nuclear industry:

People tend to favour renewable energy sources over..
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09 Jan 2006
The Carbon Coach...

Posted by: Futerra team

Confused about climate change? Having difficulty getting your head around carbon, what it means, what you're doing to generate emissions and more importantly what you could be doing to reduce them? ..
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06 Jan 2006
Mr and Mrs Smith...

Posted by: Futerra team

Well the climate change debate just got a whole lot ruder! In response to Friends of the Earth's copulating bunnies...

Greenpeace have taken the game one step further (some might say ..
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04 Jan 2006
Great little shorts on SD...

Posted by: Futerra team

...made by a German Organisation called Nachhaltiger-Filmblick. This site has some wonderful little short films on sustainable development, including a fantastic take on inter-generational equity st..
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03 Jan 2006
Green Label Clarity

Posted by: Futerra team

Ever found yourself befuddled by the range of eco-labels out there? Ever been not quite sure what they mean? Have you struggled with which ones have real credibility and which might just be cunning ..
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22 Dec 2005
Bah Humbug!

Posted by: Futerra team

Down at the high street, it’s a frenzy of buying
Some people find it really quite trying
Credit cards creaking with outstanding debt
When we still haven’t paid off last year’s y..
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21 Dec 2005
The Decency Manifesto

Posted by: Futerra team

The last thing we expect to do is promote advertising, but we rather like the tone of the new Tea Direct 'Decency Manifesto'. What could be more stiff-upper-lip and downright Britishly decent than p..
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10 Dec 2005
Most important speech ever...

Posted by: Futerra team

For those of you who missed it, Bill Clinton gave what could easily be described as one of, if not the most important speeches ever at the UN Climate Change conference in Montreal yesterday (Decembe..
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09 Dec 2005
Stateside celebrities & climate change

Posted by: Futerra team

Over in the US the increasing involvement of high profile celebrities in climate change campaigning is helping turn up the heat on the Federal Administrations denial of global warming.

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18 Nov 2005
EXTREME AUTO MAKEOVER

Posted by: Futerra team

Remember the Meatrix? Grocery Store Wars? Well those talented folk at Free Range Studios are back with their lastest excellent campaigning Flash animation, and this time it's the US automotive indu..
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14 Nov 2005
Neat little Peak Oil animation...

Posted by: Futerra team

Those energetic campaigners at Power Switch have come up with a rather good little 2 minute animation to explain the peak oil challenge. Check it out here
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18 Oct 2005
End of Suburbia

Posted by: Futerra team

Way back in May we posted some information on Peak Oil here thinking that it was likely to be breaking into the mainstream media soon (hence the 'What's Hot?' section!). However, six months down the..
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12 Oct 2005
Patio heater madness...

Posted by: Futerra team

...'Let's heat the outside in temperate Nothern Europe' thought some daft ha'porth! Nearly 750,000 outdoor patio heaters have now been sold in the UK, using between 950-1770 gigawatt-hours of energy..
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07 Oct 2005
everything's under control...

Posted by: Futerra team

Everything's under control is the new video and single from our friends Coldcut. Topical, disturbing and provocative the video really hits the mark.
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05 Oct 2005
We are what we do one year on...

Posted by: Futerra team

It's hard to believe it's been a whole year since our friends at 'We are what we do' launched their brilliant campaign, but it's true! Happy Birthday!

Actually less of a campaign and ..
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05 Oct 2005
1 million square feet of green roofs

Posted by: Futerra team

Chicago leads the urban movement for green roofs with 80 municipal and private green roofs totaling more than 1 million square feet in various stages of installation. Green roofs improve air quality..
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03 Oct 2005
Where does your planet start?

Posted by: Futerra team

Well, the answer is obviously on your doorstep! Our friends in the North at Creative Concern have launched a brilliant public engagement campaign around climate change called Manchester is my Planet..
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27 Sep 2005
Switch to green energy now

Posted by: Futerra team

Don't put it off, shed a few tonnes of your carbon emissions in one fell swoop simply by changing your energy provider. It's quick, easy and makes perfect environmental sense!

Click h..
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20 Sep 2005
Energy generating backpack

Posted by: Futerra team

'I love to go a-wandering, along the mountain track, and as I go, I love to think...about all the lovely renewable energy I'm generating!'

Yup, boffins have now come up with a way to ..
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20 Sep 2005
Year round Tomatoes on Teesside!

Posted by: Futerra team

Aside from the fact that we'd probably be better off eating our toms a bit more seasonally (rather than covering half of southern spain in plastic and exhausting every last drop of water to supply o..
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01 Sep 2005
US Federal Govt sued over climate change...

Posted by: Futerra team

A US federal judge has decided that two environmental groups and four cities have the right to sue the federal government based on allegations that financial investments made by government agencies ..
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26 Aug 2005
Your ecological footprint...

Posted by: Futerra team

Ever wondered exactly what YOUR own impact may be on the planet? There are loads of ways of calculating this, but this link to the Earth Day Ecological calculator can help you work out the area of ..
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12 Aug 2005
Decentralise power now...

Posted by: Futerra team

We waste a ridiculous amount of energy through the National Grid. Up to 30% of UK CO2 emissions come from electricity production and 67% of primary energy input is wasted through our current central..
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01 Aug 2005
Worn again trainers...

Posted by: Futerra team

...no, not literally a secondhand trainer exchange (where you can share your own strain of Athlete's foot with a stranger!) but the VERY cool and VERY ethical 'Worn Again' trainers from Anti-Apathy ..
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25 Jul 2005
QUEENIE's a GREENIE...

Posted by: Futerra team

The Queen has been given final permission on plans for a £1m hydro-electric power plant to supply Windsor Castle. Full approval has now been granted for the four-turbine energy-efficient plant to be..
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18 Jul 2005
Stop the food miles madness!

Posted by: Futerra team

As you settle down to your dinner this evening ask yourself the question: "Do I want my food to travel, or would I prefer to be able to travel myself?". Seems like a daft question but a new report f..
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12 Jul 2005
Identity cards?

Posted by: Futerra team

Confused about their use, why they're needed, how much they are going to cost etc. but can't make head nor tail of all the propaganda that is being thrown our way? Then watch this little clip which ..
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30 Jun 2005
what can one person do?

Posted by: Futerra team

Good question! To answer it three lectures, on the challenges presented by the Millennium Development Goals, will be held at St Paul's Cathedral at 6.30pm on 6th July by Kofi Anan, 27th September by..
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16 Jun 2005
Paws for thought...

Posted by: Futerra team

...and contemplate Friends of the Earth's new campaign on climate change - 'The Big Ask' with the help of these adorable fluffy bunnies doing what bunnies do best!

Paws for thought...
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08 Jun 2005
4x4 Lunacy

Posted by: Futerra team

Greenpeace is campaigning against Land Rover’s gas-guzzling vehicles: 'They're wrecking the climate and its parent company Ford has blocked government action to tackle climate change. If we are to s..
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07 Jun 2005
One Planet, Many People...

Posted by: Futerra team

The dramatic environmental changes sweeping planet Earth are brought into sharp focus to mark World Environment Day. Produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),"One Planet Many Peo..
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12 May 2005
Store Wars

Posted by: Futerra team

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...well, no actually! In a supermarket near you now! The Organic Rebellion is the galaxy's only hope...check out this brilliantly ridiculous Star Wars pasti..
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04 May 2005
WEEE Man!

Posted by: Futerra team

The RSA and Canon unveiled the WEEE (Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment) man, a 7m sculpture of 3 tonnes of discarded kit. An average householder in the UK now owns 25 electrical and electronic..
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04 May 2005
FUTERRA team blooms for spring...

Posted by: Futerra team

As occasional visitors to this site may be aware, we're growing for spring. But before the modest expansion of our wee sustainable enterprise we thought we'd share this photo of the core team from o..
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04 May 2005
Peak Oil?

Posted by: Futerra team

Those with a keen eye in the media recently may well have picked up on increased rumblings about Peak Oil - the point at which global oil production begins to decline. Following a major conference i..
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26 Apr 2005
Talking climate change...

Posted by: Futerra team

...with Ian McEwan. Check out OpenDemocracy's online debate on the politics of climate change. The debate was developed in partnership with the British Council as part of their ZeroCarbonCity initia..
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14 Apr 2005
Tune into the bigger picture...

Posted by: Futerra team

Big Picture TV is a free online media channel that streams short talking head video clips of some of the most renowned pioneers in Sustainable Development and from the environmental, social justice ..
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23 Mar 2005
Wake up to trade justice!

Posted by: Futerra team

Stay up all night in solidarity with people all over the world on Friday night 15 April!

TEN THOUSAND CANDLES * ONE AMAZING NIGHT * SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY

This year Brit..
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12 Mar 2005
Who'd have thought it...

Posted by: Futerra team

...just to show there's nothing new under the sun, check out this pleasant little quote from Herman Goering on the nature of public attitudes to war.
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07 Mar 2005
New SD Strategy

Posted by: Futerra team

The Government has just launched the new SD strategy for the UK: 'Securing our Future'. The new Strategy, updated, revised and developed since 1999 offers the potential to dramatically increase the ..
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07 Mar 2005
Borromean Rings...

Posted by: Futerra team

...There's a reason why we use three inter-locking rings as a symbol for sustainability, and it's not just a simple venn diagram relationship (finding the common ground of decision-making). In actua..
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24 Feb 2005
Cape Farewell...

Posted by: Futerra team

..Well our friends at Cape Farewell certainly won't be hot as they're off on their third arctic expedition shortly. They've been working using science, media and the arts on raising awareness of cli..
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22 Feb 2005
Edinburgh says no...

Posted by: Futerra team

...alas the people of Edinburgh have voted against their proposed congestion charge, despite overwhelming evidence of the success of the charge in London. Once again the anti-charge campaign was bas..
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15 Feb 2005
The HUB...

Posted by: Futerra team

...Our friends at The Hub, a brand new creative workspace and meeting place for all things sustainable in Angel, North London, are now open for business. They've got a stunning building and you can ..
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11 Feb 2005
The Yes Men...

Posted by: Futerra team

Check out this film that follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world in an increa..
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03 Feb 2005
Mandela in London

Posted by: Futerra team

Nelson Mandela today spoke at Trafalgar Square in support of the Make Poverty History coalition. Run by over 200 groups (from charities to celebs), the coalition has 3 goals: trade justice, drop the..
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03 Feb 2005
Sri Lankan Tsunami Fundraiser...

Posted by: Futerra team

FUTERRA's Georgina is co-organising the Bohemian Nights cabaret spectacular at The Cobden Club on Thursday 24th Feb!!

There's a great line up of stars from the world of acoustic soul..
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27 Jan 2005
Dynamic Demand...

Posted by: Futerra team

Our friends at Dynamic Demand have come up with one of those brilliantly simple and elegant solutions that begs the question: 'Why has no-one thought of this before?!'. Their matchbox sized device c..
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27 Jan 2005
Lessons for Ken...

Posted by: Futerra team

Ever thought that Ken Livingstone was quite radical as London Mayor? Whilst he has not stooped to the depths of Hartlepool's Mayor H'Angus the Monkey, Ken could clearly learn a thing or two from the..
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20 Jan 2005
Re:FASHION

Posted by: Futerra team

Our lovely friends at Anti-Apathy are putting on another of their spectacular evening events of music, inspiration and entertainment. The 'Re:Fashion' Event is taking place in the Electric Ballroom ..
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10 Jan 2005
Wicked little political animation...

Posted by: Futerra team

You have to register to watch this but check out the 'Knife Party' clip: Wicked little political animation

Once registered you can find it under The Work > Spec Work > Portfolio
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26 Oct 2004
Buy Nothing Day

Posted by: Futerra team

It's that time of year again, as the rampant consumerism of Christmas approaches when we can all take a step back, disengage from the market economy and ask ourselves what we actually get from all t..
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11 Oct 2004
Wear your principles...

Posted by: Futerra team

...on your chest (and back, and legs and bonce...!) with the new stuff from the lovely people at Howies.

Quite simply the grooviest, most right-on and quality threads around!
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17 Sep 2004
Embrace the wind of change...

Posted by: Futerra team

Tired of niche interest groups and vocal NIMBY's stealing the media thunder in regard to wind farms? Now's your chance to make your support for wind power heard by signing up to the Embrace the revo..
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17 Sep 2004
We are what we do...

Posted by: Futerra team

We Are What We Do is new project just launched by the East End of London charity Community Links.

Everyone in the sustainable development movement knows that each of us has the power ..
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08 Sep 2004
The Corporation...See this film!

Posted by: Futerra team

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the ..
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08 Sep 2004
For your soles and your soul...

Posted by: Futerra team

Enter the world's first global anti-brand: the Blackspot sneaker. A shoe and a message and a vision of the future. Adbusters have produced an environmentally friendly sneaker that's a bold statement..
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20 Aug 2004
UN search for case studies

Posted by: Futerra team

The UN Global Compact and UNEP are searching for great case studies on how companies communicate Corporate Social Responsbility and Sustainable Development. Their aim is a publication that incl..
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03 Jun 2004
The day after tomorrow....

Posted by: Futerra team

At a cinema near you now (how could you miss it)! This summer's blockbuster may extrapolate climate change science to a loony degree, compressing a cataclysmic climate shift into a mere 48 hours...h..
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04 May 2004
Motivate London! Join the network

Posted by: Futerra team

Join the new network supporting London professionals and organisations delivering environmentally sustainable action. Share knowledge, experiences and learning to help improve the way you influence ..
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04 May 2004
Communicating CSR or Sustainable Development?

Posted by: Futerra team

An e-mail group of like-minded communicators across the UK might help. Sign up by sending an e-mail to csr-sd-comms-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. Then you’ll receive e-mails, jobs and event invites fro..
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04 May 2004
Awards for CSR Communications – deadline in May!

Posted by: Futerra team

Submit your communications campaigns to the IVCA Clarion Awards for effective CSR communication. They will be judged on the quality of the communication strategy currently employed in support of a c..
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