Posted on August 20th 2008
Source: UnLimited/CMU, Wednesday August 20
The next release from Moshi Moshi will be a new EP from The Wave Pictures, but this will be an EP with a difference, as it will be recorded and released in a way that produces as little carbon as possible. An eco-EP if you like. The band and their engineer […]
Posted on August 20th 2008
Posted by Ben
The UK might be doing remarkably well at the Olympics but elsewhere we are doing even better - we are actually top of a league:
1. UK 27m
2. Italy 20m
3. Spain 17m
4. France 13m
5. Germany 10m
Looks good doesn’t it? The problem is this is a league table of Europe’s top five dumpers of household […]
Posted on August 15th 2008
Fans going to Pukkelpop in Belgium, who have already been able to take advantage of free train travel to the 50,000 capacity festival, will now be able to take a free bus from anywhere in the country, following an expansion of the event’s green efforts. This year’s festival, headlined by the Killers, Manic Street Preachers, […]
Posted on August 15th 2008
Jason Turgeon has posted up two blogs on the greening of the US’s Rothbury Festival and compares Rothbury’s efforts with the Bonnaroo Festival, long acknowledged as a leader in environmentally friendly events.
“It’s been 5 days now since Rothbury ended, and I’m still caught up in the post-festival bliss that you get from a really […]
Posted on August 14th 2008
Eighteen UK and international festivals are the first recipients of the prestigious 2008 Greener Festival Award for their efforts in promoting environmentally friendly music festivals. In the UK, recipients of the leading eco-award included Latitude, the Glastonbury Festival, the Camden Green Fair and the Cambridge Folk Festival, all praised by the award organisers for their green […]
Posted on August 11th 2008
Posted by Ben
There is an old saying ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ and a couple of years ago in a fairly relaxed state in a public house, I surmised that in the future clever entrepreneurs would be mining landfill sites for all sorts of thrown away goodies because the cost of raw materials would rocket as scarce materials ran out. […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
The unpredictable summer weather has meant that this weekend’s Pickering Folk Festival has had to be cancelled at the last minute after a site inspection revealed the site covered in standing water. The festival’s website states It is raining now and more heavy rain is forecast over the next three days so the event has been cancelled […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
It may be a wet summer in the UK at the moment, but remember the devastating fires that have plagued Australia, Greece, California and Turkey over the last few years? Well these are likely to become common in the UK within years according to the Fire Brigades Union, which claims there has been a huge rise in the […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
Ice at the North Pole melted at an unprecedented rate last week, with leading scientists warning that the Arctic could be ice-free in summer by 2013 according to an article in the Observer (10 October 2008). Satellite images show that ice caps started to disintegrate dramatically several days ago as storms over Alaska’s Beaufort Sea […]
Posted on August 10th 2008
Energy companies are set to scoop larger windfall profits from emissions trading than originally predicted, according to new estimates from the regulator Ofgem with the bserver saying that it will be consumers who could end up bankrolling most of this windfall through higher fuel bills. The energy industry stands to make £11bn over the next five […]