Environment

Green Concerts Rocks Your Socks

- Adam Clare

Here in the province of Ontario there’s the Hillside Festival, and it has been the greenest event I’ve ever been to (their website shows that they have tons of energy). Going to a place to hear great music, exchange great ideas, and help the environement while doing it is more fun than it sounds 😉

The idea of running a green concert has caught on and now a company, Sustainable Waves is helping to make sure that the (green) band keeps playing.

But can the green message be at odds with a rock extravaganza? Festival organizers know that outdoor concerts leave a big footprint, and they’ve worked hard to reduce Echo’s impact. Electricity for sound and lights at one of the five stages will be provided by an array of solar panels; generators at other stages will run on bio-diesel fuel.

Even the temporary fencing around some stages and tents will be built out of an Earth-friendly product — in this case fast-growing bamboo harvested by Franklin of the nonprofit enviro group Change of Atmosphere.

A fraction of the price of each ticket will be contributed to a tree-planting project, and, for an extra $4, patrons can buy green tickets that pay for “carbon offsets” elsewhere — an investment in 500 kilowatt-hours of renewable energy, such as wind energy.

The Butterfly Effect and the Environment

- Adam Clare

Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day
There were some really neat posts made around the net about the environment thanks to Blog Action Day yesterday, and so for the rest of the week I’d llike to post at least one Blog Action Day post per day.

The first one is written by Brian Clark at Copy Blogger, he argues that the butterfly effect can save the environment: a lot of people doing small local things can literally make a world of difference.

The corollary of the Butterfly Effect is that tiny changes you make do in fact make a difference. And when those tiny changes are aggregated among millions of people, we can truly make a real difference in how much nature we save for our children, grandchildren, and beyond.

We might even be saving them.

It doesn’t need to be a sacrifice. Why not make changes that simply save you money?

Indeed, Brian provides a list of money-saving things that you can do to help save the planet.

Designers Can Help the Environment Too!

- Adam Clare

Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day There’s a great list of 101 things a designer can do to save the Earth, and it seems appropriate to blog even more about the environment on Blog Action Day.

Here’s a sampling from the list:

85. REPLACE THE CARPET WITH INTERFACEFLOR
70. TELL YOUR PRINTER ABOUT PNEAC
19. SPEC CORN-DERIVATIVE SHOPPING BAGS INSTEAD OF PLASTIC

Today is Blog Action Day!

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Bloggers Unite - Blog Action Day Today, thousands of bloggers are writing on their blogs how people can make this world better. Blog Action Day is all about bloggers blogging about the environment to raise awareness and engender more action.

You can check out LifeHacker to find ways to hack more green into your life or find out what it’s like to live while making no impact on the environment (it’s quite normal). If you have your own blog let people know your thoughts on the environment!

OneWorld Creates Social Networking Site

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oneclimate.netOneClimate.net is now the home of a social networking site that is focused on, you guessed it, the climate. OneWorld Network is a great source for news from around the world and I’m sure that this new social networking attempt for them will work out just as good as their news has.

I encourage you all to signup!

What the OneWorld UK team has done is to create innovative spaces and useful tools to enable you to communicate your experiences, insights, questions and answers about climate change. We only build the platforms: the content – almost all of it – is yours.

But we couldn’t have built the platforms without the generosity of the many people who believed in the importance of the cause.

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