Reading Festival 2008

Well…better late than never! I was lucky enough to bag myself a ticket to Reading Festival this year and I had an amazing time. But I remembered not to take off my green hat and found out about what Reading was doing this year to become more environmentally friendly. Well most of their information on [...]

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Birmingham City SU petitions for recycling facilities

Birmingham City University Student Union has started a petition to lobby the university for more recycling facilities around the campuses. You can sign the petition here and also check out the Facebook group. I spoke to representations and campaigns officer Alex Jewitt a while ago about the union’s stance on green issues and he spoke [...]

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Interview with Glastonbury Festival

I recently spoke to Crispin Aubrey from the Glastonbury Festival about how the festival is trying to develop greener business practices and encourage festival goers to be more environmentally friendly. You can listen to the interview here

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Enviro Cribs Part Three

Enviro Cribs Part Three

The Final Part.

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Enviro Cribs Part Two

Enviro Cribs Part Two

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Sports stars and education

I don’t know why I never thought of sport as a way of educating people about the environment, but it looks like a great way to reach out to kids. Surfing the net recently, I came across a blog called 6footsix. It’s about the plans for a beach volleyball player called Colleen Smith to educate [...]

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Universal Studios to go green

Universal Studios Hollywood is going to be celebrating Earth Day 2008 by having an “eco-fair” on April 26th. It will feature celebrity appearances and displays educating people about the environment. There is also going to be a collection of hazardous waste materials.
It’s all part of Universal’s “Green is Universal” campaign to raise awareness and to [...]

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Hannah Newland Interview

I managed to speak to Hannah Newland, the newly elected representation and campaigns officer at Birmingham City University Union of Students, about environmental issues and what she thinks the union and university should be doing.

If the above link doesn’t work you can download the interview here

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Climate change to be taught at public schools in California?

A senator in California has put forward a bill that requires the topic “climate change” to be taught in Science classes at all public schools in the state.
Senator Joe Simitian said “This is a phenomenon of global importance and our kids ought to understand the science behind that phenomenon.”
The bill has received mixed responses. [...]

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Grocery Store Wars

I found this video from looking at a Titan TV blog http://community.titantv.com/blogs/morganjones/archive/2008/01/11/the-wonderful-world-of-mulch.aspx.
A hilarious and great way of promoting organic foods.

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