When I was organizing a video festival in London earlier this year, I had the privilege of meeting a campaigner from Survival International, an organization that works with tribal peoples all over the world, with special focus on land issues. One of...
Category - environment
It must be quite evident for most of us that there is an over-packaging syndrome in the retail industry. When I look at the goods I purchase from conventional, non-organic stores, I find it shocking how much paper and plastic is used to...
Over the last year it has been amazing to see how Britain, historically one of the biggest contributors to global warming, has become obsessed with climate change. Unfortunately the discussion often gets limited to plenty of hot air (pun intended)...
Al Gore has been “greening” his house for a while now. He started by adding solar panels to his roof, and replacing his light bulbs with CFL’s. Then he started replacing the windows with energy efficient ones. He’s also...
I promised to tell you why it is important that you save energy. One person can rarely change the world. Most of us are not Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or even George W. Bush. Most of us are just trying to get by. We go to our jobs, we raise...