Cycle Diaries / Green music

  • 2ndFeb 2010
    Paul Heaton’s Pedals and Beer Pumps Tour 2010 – A Case Study by Catherine

    Paul Martin (Housemartins, Beautiful South) sets off on tour in 2010 on our favourite form of transport - bicycle!

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  • 13thNov 2009
    Green Day Sings Green by Julie's Bicycle

    Green Day has teamed up with the Natural Resources Defence Council in an attempt to encourage fans of the band and the Earth to call on Congress to pass legislation to deal with climate change.

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  • 26thOct 2009
    Greener Festival Awards Update by Julie's Bicycle

    Greener Festival has published its final list for 2009 of festivals that have achieved the Greener Festival Awards.

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  • 17thJul 2009
    Go Greener Festivals by Catherine

    Congratulations to UK Festivals The Sunrise Celebration, Download, Firegathering, the Glastonbury Festival, Wireless, the Isle of Wight Festival and T-in-the-Park who have received the first Greener Festival awards of the season.

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  • 28thJan 2009
    New one day course promotes live event green skills by Ben Challis

    European festivals organisation Yourope, Bucks New University and environmental campaign groupwww.agreenerfestival.com have lauched a new certificate in sustainable event management.The course aims to meet a growing demand by festival and event organi

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  • 26thJan 2009
    Hospitals drop meat from menus to cut emissions as the UK looks to a low carbon future by Ben Challis

    Meat free menus will be promoted within NHS hospitals in a bid to radically reduce the health sector's greenhouse gas emissions. The NHS's emissions in 2004 were 18.6 million tonnes of CO2 and rising -putting the NHS as the world's 81st biggest polluter -

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  • 21stJan 2009
    Intelligence Squared Green Festival 25 January 2009 in London

    At a time when the Third Runway at Heathrow go ahead has raised the environment versus the economy debate to a fevered pitch and when Boris Johnson is challenging Gordon Brown to a public debate on the matter, the Intelligence Squared Green Festival on Cl

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  • 21stJan 2009
    Observer's 20 Big Green Ideas by Ben Challis

    The Observer have launched their Ethical Awards 2009 (see www.observer.co.uk/ethicalawards) and this year there are four categories the public can vote for in addition to the judged categories. The public vote categories are Best Local Retailer, Best Onli

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  • 19thJan 2009
    Hoon banned from Latitude for plane stupid Heathrow announcement by Ben Challis

    Geoff Hoon MP, Secretary of State for Transport, has been banned from attending the 2009 Latitude festival after Melvin Benn,MD of organisers Festival Republic said that Hoon was banned because he believed the MP's stance on the forthcoming new runway a

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  • 18thJan 2009
    Recycle that unused mobile by Ben Challis

    One positive thing we can all do is RECYCLE old mobiles: A new survey from www.fonebank.com , a trade in website, found only 20% of UK consumers recycle mobiles with 28% putting them into a drawer and 23% throwing them away (most people probaly do both ov

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