"With fish stocks under pressure, which are okay to eat?"

"Let’s rate our technologies for how much they help us as primates, rather than how they can put us further into this dream of being powerful gods who stalk around on a planet that doesn’t really matter to us."

MSC-certified tinned fish.

Lots of interesting bits here but the stats in particular stand out. "The death toll is not small. The UK, despite having an excellent road safety record, sees more people killed on the roads every year than died during the entire duration of the Troubles in Northern Ireland; "According to the World Health Organization motor vehicle collisions are the 6th most common cause of death in developed nations, with an average rate of 20.8 per 100,000 populations in the year 2000 (30.8 for males, 11.0 for females). African nations have the world's highest road traffic injury mortality rates." (Wikipedia on traffic-related death rates.) 1.2 million were killed and 50 million injured in road traffic accidents in 2004."

NASA says, "the evidence for rapid climate change is compelling".

"An anti landfill fashion accessory label".

"When taking part in a challenging event (anything from a marathon to a school scoot-athon), rather than inviting friends, family and work mates to sponsor you by donating money, through JustSaving you will be able to ask for sponsorship in the form of actions."

"Let's ruin E-ON's pathetic online attempt to rescue their ailing brand." Oops.

"A not-for-profit company helping the music industry cut its greenhouse gas emissions and create a low carbon creative future."

"Last month, stretches of the river Lee were included on the list of 117 "bodies of water" across England and Wales that, according a new European rating system, are now classified as "bad". In total, just five of the 6,114 rivers surveyed received the "pristine" classification; three-quarters failed to attain the "good" grading."

"What if there was some shift in emphasis from designing for the building, to designing for the community, or the wider urban space? If everyone could agree just to turn the lighting down a bit, or even a lot, night-time city centres could become much less competitive, noisy places in terms of ambient light."

"Whilst the advertising industry has one of the longest histories of trying to understand interaction, it’s a very different set of tools that digitalness brings; ones that designers at the coal face of web and mobile encounter every day. Everything can be considered in context, be timely, reactive, and data-driven. I’m going to try to outline some dimensions to think about, with some incredibly quick, simple, off the cuff dumb ideas (All brands are impersonated. Badly.) that hopefully push the advertising into being more useful or interesting."

"The acrimonious split follows unsatisfactory negotiations which could have given Freecycle's UK moderators the ability to localise their web pages and allow them to serve the community better [...] The UK is probably the most enthusiastic Freecycling country in the world, hosting just 10% of all the branches but handling 27% of all Freecycling activities."

"Each unit of UK electricity is currently causing this much CO2..."

"With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation." In love.

"A service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interaction between remote environments, both physical and virtual."

"A light, portable and eco friendly laptop stand."

"Is there potential for buildings to be less good at keeping us warm, or cool, or dry than they are now? You know, for environmental reasons."

Freecycle alternative.

"Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing – at last – into history."

Freecycle starting the move away from Yahoo! Groups towards custom solution.

"These products have been made to last. So that one day you can hand them down to someone else. And they can carry on their little journeys." Lovely.

"Takes the best bits of online auctioning, recycling and LETS systems and combines them into a simple and free item and skill bartering service."

Another excellent mySociety hack.

Radiohead's LED lighting. "Our road to what became, we believe, the first exclusively LED tour lighting system started with a conversation about generators at festivals and green field sites."

"Thanks to policy makers in the UN and Europe levels of pollution are now controlled. Permits must be bought by polluters to let them keep polluting. But there is a finite number of them in circulation and the good news is anyone can buy them."

"AMEE is designed as a neutral platform to aggregate and distribute all the CO2 data in the world. It combines measurement, profiling and transactional systems to enable this."

"Environmentally friendly" being a relative term when it comes to hardware and power.

"Within weeks, plastic bag use dropped 94 percent. Plastic bags were not outlawed, but carrying them became socially unacceptable — on a par with wearing a fur coat or not cleaning up after one’s dog."

"Because the stomachs of cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain, cattle raised industrially thrive only in the sense that they gain weight quickly. This diet made it possible to remove cattle from their natural environment and encourage the efficienc

"In return for your help on organic farm, gardens and smallholdings you receive meals, accommodation and the opportunity to learn. Wwoof volunteers do not pay to stay with hosts and Wwoof hosts do not pay volunteers for their help."

"Lets you easily power off devices when not in use, saving both energy and money" Like this idea. Bit manual, mind. Wouldn't have expected it from Belkin.

"The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice."

"Can we encourage and direct desire in a way that satisfies people's desire to consume (and therefore allows businesses to charge them money for something and keep the wheels of capitalism turning) without creating endless torrents of new stuff."

"We’re going to construct a giant paper boat and giant paper plane and deliver them to parliament. They will be covered in the names of the people who have pledged their support for our call for a strong, effective Climate Change Bill."

"Green Thing is a community that makes it easy and enjoyable to be a bit greener. Every month you’ll get a different Green Thing to do. All you have to do is do it."

"Npower have been dumping slurry into the Radley Lakes - once one of the largest wetland areas and the richest site for breeding birds in the entire county of Oxfordshire - for the past 20 years. Only two of the original 12 lakes remain."

"The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide."

"sust-it has a simple objective: to make us all more energy efficient by providing consumer information on the most energy efficient products in the marketplace."

"I think the reason he included this in his book, and the reason I think it is a seriously good idea to actually execute, is that as a green propaganda project is it will force people to confront the very real possibility of catastrophe before it happens.

"one thing a month. sign up to get nagged each month about one easy thing you can do to be greener, cleaner and, if you're not careful, a tiny bit smug."

"a not-for-profit that combines the best financial engineering, environmental engineering, social networking tools and business intelligence to create products and services that help large corporations, organizations and individuals significantly reduce t

"Change Your World is asking you to swap just one car trip from 1-7 July and choose something that's better for the planet instead."

"I have done a bit of digging and I have to say the more you look at Mc Donalds, the better it gets."

"Stop reading blogs and Digg posts and take a minute to save the world using these ten sites."

"There are too many ways to reduce water use to reduce to a throw-away top ten. I'd like to maintain this list, so that it hopefully become a definitive water saving guide"

"We’re in this Together is offering you easy access to products and ideas (we call them ‘Solutions’) that really can reduce your impact on the climate."

Video from Energy Saving Trust.

Every day at Friends of the Earth Scotland we receive calls asking us about environmentally friendly products: whether it is really worth recycling and how to go about greening the office. Our Online Audit is designed to answer these questions.

"Building a green PC means you can be part of the solution by using all lead-free parts that are also more energy-efficient."

"We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow."

Phone contract from Friends of the Earth and Woodland Trust.

Hurrah, James is blogging again!

"The how, what and where of recycling in the United Kingdom."

"A study by the world's leading experts says global warming will happen faster and be more devastating than previously thought"

"Barbara Hadrill [...] is the bridesmaid so perturbed by our wrecking of the planet that instead of flying to Brisbane for her friend's wedding, she quit her job and set off by land and sea instead."

"A project to create a green wiki website that encourages discussion and the generation of tips that benefit you and the planet"

"It's no longer enough for a restaurant to flag up its organic credentials. Now chefs are trying to make sure that every part of their operation is eco-friendly - even if that means employing worms to help with the rubbish."

"...without dirtying the environment"

Microfibre cleaning cloths.

"Plug the desktop computer into the OneClick product MASTER SOCKET and the peripherals into the other sockets [..] Turn the desktop computer on, and the OneClick product instantly switches power to the peripherals."

"An approved retailer of the Energy Saving Trust."

"Britons exaggerate how green they are, with most mistakenly believing that they are following energy-saving practices."

"Digital growth welcomes all donations of IT equipment big or small, from private and public organisations to an individual wanting to make a difference."

"WorldChanging.com works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected."