Archive for the 'campaigns' Category

May 1st, 2008

Turning Up the Heat

Turning Up the HeatThe World Development Movement is running a series of debates about how big business can influence climates change. The series is called Turning Up the Heat. You can turn up in person to the events in London (8th May), Cardiff (10th May) and Manchester (13th May) or you can watch and participate online - ...
January 8th, 2008

Chicken Out

chicken_out_250×250.gif We generally buy free range or organic chicken already. If you don't look at Hughs campaign to find out why you should. You may have seen a trailer for The Big Food Fight. I was looking forward to an amusing documentary with the three celebrity chefs scrapping but it is a collection of programmes about food and where it comes from. I haven't watched ...
November 28th, 2007

The Solution is Simple

I thought this was quite amusing when I saw it (even thoug it is sponsored). The site is quite interesting too - you need flash. I don't think it would win any marks for accessibility but it's fun and gets the point across(if you have flash).
November 2nd, 2007

Love Food Hate Waste

Love Food Hate Waste Apparently we waste up to a third of all food bought in the country. This campaign gives ideas ideas on how to reduce this waste. It has recipes, meal planners and tips on understand sell by and sell by dates. I have to admit we do waste food in our house hopefully it's not a third of a ...
October 29th, 2007

Get on board

WWF-UK: Get on Board A campaign being run by the WWF to get the Climate Change Bill strengthened. Apparently they are going to build a giant paper plane and boat and deliver them to Parliament. These will be covered with the names of people who want the bill strengthened. You can probably see where the 'Get on board' tag line comes from now! It's ...
July 3rd, 2007

Change Your World Competition

Change Your World Flickr group I didn't realize there is a competition. for the Change Your World campaign happening this week. You could win a bike worth £449.99. The details are on the the Change Your World site. There is also a flickr group where you can see ...
June 19th, 2007

One minute with meaning

Friends of the Earth are running a competition to make a film of exactly 60 seconds. They seem to have a whole area on YouTube - something for future reference I think.
May 16th, 2007

G8 Wait

Had a message off someone from Oxfam publicising a campaign they promoting called G8 Wait. Basically it's about the G8 leaders not fulfilling the promises they made about providing aid etc. These were made at the time of the Live8 concerts in 2005. The G8 Wait campaign uses a few of the popular social networking sites which allow people to post pictures etc. ...
October 30th, 2006

Stop Climate Chaos National Event

Just had some one post a comment about this - slightly bizarre as it was a completly unrelated to the actual post. But thanks for pointing it out to be me Calvin. I won't be able to make it as my parents are stopping by but don't let that stop you going! I would probably take some flame retardant clothing too as it is the day before Bonfire Night. ...
June 20th, 2006

DWT Hardy Hike

This walk takes place in an area me and the wife know quite well. It's actually an amazing bit of coastline where the walk takes place. Until we moved here I didn't realise how beautiful it is. I would say it is easy to compare it with somewhere like the Lake District or North Wales in ...

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