The Story of Stuff is a simple, effective video that explains the ‘top-line’ messages that everyone ought know about where the ‘stuff’ we buy comes from and ultimately where it ends up. Produced by Free Range Studios (of ‘The Meatrix‘ fame) the video is a perfect example of using new media in an engaging way [...]

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America’s borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Middle East, to destroy the environment in America. That’s the case Al Gore has made in his recent call for 100% renewable energy in the US within ten years. You can see the 5 minute summary edit here:

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In the movie The Corporation, Ray Anderson from Interface Carpets explains that the reason he led his company to become increasingly sustainable is that consumers were starting to ask questions about his company’s sustainability. Today I noticed that Threadless.com – a website I blogged about back in 2007 is no longer sourcing t-shirts from the [...]

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election tracker is a youth-run site that follows the Australian federal election. It’s been around since 2004. It’s great. Go and check it out. It’s full of stories from young Aussies that care about politics and that write about everything from why their mates don’t care to why they vote the way they do. The [...]

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Brace yourselves, I’ve signed up to this… On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. Our aim is to get everyone talking towards a better [...]

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