For your friday viewing pleasure, here is a new video from Annie Leonard. It’s the latest in a series of six new films from Free Range Studios, the Story of Stuff team take on bottled water:
Archive | July, 2010
Building the Big Society
One of the phrases of the election in the UK was ‘The Big Society’. It was coined as part of David Cameron’s campaign for the Conservatives, as a riposte to Labour’s notions of a Big Government. Where the big government squeezed out private initiative and monopolised services, the Big Society would empower the citizen to [...]
Ending biodiversity loss by 2010… erm, make that 2020
In June 2001 the heads of the EU announced their intention to halt biodiversity loss by 2010. The following year the UN took up the challenge to “achieve by 2010 a significant reduction of the current rate of biodiversity loss”, a pledge they renewed in New York in 20o5. Halfway through 2010, designated the International [...]
The One Straw Revolution, by Masanobu Fukuoka
This week I’ve read an extraordinary book, Masanobu Fukuoka’s One Straw Revolution. I first heard of it through Tom Hodgkinson at the Idler, and have seen it mentioned several times since then in various places. It’s something of a classic in permaculture and organic gardening circles. Fukuoka was a plant scientist working in Japan in [...]
Gambling on growth – the budget debate
It’s been almost two weeks since George Osborne presented his emergency budget to the Houses of Parliament. I watched the speech, read the newspaper columnists on both sides, and wanted to stop and think about it before I wrote anything. Some say this is a necessary and wise budget, cutting government spending down to a [...]
What we learned this week
This year the UK became a net importer of gas for the first time in 40 years. Researchers at Penn State University have created a self-destructing plastic. In an idea that has the future written all over it, this supermarket in London has started growing vegetables on the roof. Those whinging about our coalition government [...]
Ordinary South Africans and their bicycles
This is Paulo Sibindi of Mapobane, South Africa, one of the portraits of people and their bicycles collected by Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler this year. The project is both an exploration of local cycling culture, and a campaign to get more South Africans cycling. The photographers stop and talk to fellow cyclists and commuters, [...]
Logorama
Logorama is a 16 minute short film made entirely of corporate icons and logos, over two and a half thousand of them used as characters and scenery. As well as an accomplished graphic experiment, it’s also a rather neat lampooning of the visual culture of consumerism. The over-designed, carefully controlled world of corporate branding is [...]
Lighter Later – saving the daylight
This week we’ve had something of a heatwave in the UK, and we’ve been enjoying long evenings in the garden. Tesco reports that it sold 9 million sausages ahead of the weekend as the whole country got set to barbecue. Those long evenings are political too however. On June 21st, the longest day of the [...]
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