Can one man change the world by not talking?
John Glionna has an interesting profile in today’s LA Times about John Francis, a man who stopped speaking for 17 years.
Moved by an oil spill in San Francisco Bay, John Francis in 1973 stopped speaking, stopped using motor vehicles, and began a solitary, speechless trek across the [...]

This boiling hot topic is not going away and everyone has their own view on it, from environmentalist George Monbiot’s call to ground all planes now, to demands for proper taxes on aviation fuel, to complicated carbon offsetting schemes.
But what should we do about it? To help us make up our minds, check out BBC2’s documentary tomorrow, [...]

I love what is happening in eco-lifestyle these days. Finally we hip hippies have a way to live by our values and express our style at the same time. From Ecoist’s bags to Giovanni’s cosmetics, fashion and beauty have become sustainably sassy.
What excites me even more however is how powerful eco-living could be as way [...]

I’m very happy to present another first for GGG and that is our first editor from Canada, Elizabeth!
Elizabeth lives in Toronto and is launching a lifestyle guide called Karmalicious for conscious consumers in Canada. She’s a busy lady because not only will she be writing for GGG but she also volunteers with Toronto Green Community and [...]

River Nene is an organic farm in Nene Valley in a village called Sutton. I discovered the farm when I was desperately trying to find an organic veg box delivery scheme that would deliver to Nottingham. Unfortunatley this is a very rare thing here but finding River Nene was fantastic. Not only do they provide lovely, [...]

 Every secondary school in the country will receive two copies of the DVD ‘ An Inconvenient Truth’ The Scottish Executive announced this week that Al Gore’s would be shown to teenagers, in a bid to highlight growing concern of climate change to the younger generation.
Ross Finnie, the environment minister, dismissed any suggestion that the film [...]

The sight of a shrink-wrapped swede on the front page was enough to sell me today’s edition of The Independent.
While other papers were still in a bother about Big Brother, The Independent dared to be different by launching a campaign against the unnecessary and infuriating packaging that litters our lives.
The supermarkets claim it’s about protecting [...]

According to an article in the Sunday Herald, everyone in Scotland will have the option of a green burial within 5 years.
Native Woodland currently has three natural burial sites in Scotland and is keen to expand.  Glasgow City Council is also looking to have parts of its cemeteries given over to green burial, it seems [...]

“I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”  Vincent van Gogh
I found this quote recently and have been hanging onto, almost like fingers clutching a ledge as the onslaught of stories and information pours on about the demise of our current [...]

Brilliant article on green living/housing. I found it in my hardcopy of Wired Magazine. Lucky for you there’s a full online article here
by the way, if any of you are going to lift 07 in Geneva - I will be there doing a workshop on creativity and participating in the conversations…
ohh, and [...]