Hey, long time no blog, I’ve been busy moving away from the New Town out to a more greener and peaceful part of Edinburgh (post on the city farm will come shortly). I can’t find more information on this, but the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust has given a grant to Changeworks, our local environmental organisation [...]

To mark energy saver week starting on Monday the Energy Savings Trust has devised a questionnaire to help you figure out how influential you are in encouraging others to tackle climate change. The questionnaire measures your awareness and amount of engagement and then pops you in a category of ‘type of influencer’. I scored as [...]

A couple weeks ago I received an email from a communications firm asking if I would like to fly out to the  Detroit, MI area to view General Motors new line of Hybrid vehicles as well as others that will be debuting in 2008.  Of course I immediately assumed this was a joke.  I was [...]

One of our lovely GGG readers sent me the link to this video by Greenpeace: The Convenient Solution (please click this link for the video) As the UK government are beginning to introduce the idea of nuclear power again, this video discusses how this will not stop climate change. Greenpeace tell us how the renewable [...]

Milieunet Foundation say on their website that they are: “a non-profit organisation focused on awareness and change of behaviour by means of communication about waste, energy, sustainability, nature, environment, climate, human rights and international development cooperation” They have recently completed translation of their website into English (originally in Dutch) and want to share their weekly [...]

After my last two posts about shop lighting and other commercial electricals being left on at night time (‘And let there be less light’ & ‘And the rant goes on…’) Henriette suggested that we take this further and form something official to encourage businesses to waste less energy and cause less light pollution. Of course, [...]

There is a fantastic new building being built here in San Francisco! The California Academy of Sciences (CAS) is well underway and is slated to open in late 2008. The CAS is the fourth largest natural museum in the United States and if all goes according to plan its new facility will be the largest [...]

Last week I wrote a post about the wasteful use of lighting by shops at night time – ‘And let there be less light‘. As if I wasn’t irritated enough by the fact that the shops in my local area (and everywhere else in the UK) leave their signage, security and indoor lights burning away [...]

I really know nothing about construction or renovation, that’s Arcadia’s area of expertise, but I wanted to show you this great video sent to me by Will at RiverWired. The video shows the materials and methods used by a green builder in New York renovating an abandoned brownstone into a family home. I much prefer [...]

On one of the very few warm evenings we had a couple of weeks ago my partner and I decided to go for a cold beer and relax outside at a local pub. Looking around at the nearby shops I saw that most of them had left some kind of lighting on to illuminate their [...]