‘Ello Tosh, Got a Toshiba
March 19, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Toshiba E-Core
So, you’ve changed your nasty power hungry normal light bulbs to energy savers. But you’re posh and you’ve got a whole bunch of those fancy halogen bulbs drilled into your ceiling too. Well, now there’s a low energy alternative to your lardy-da lighting.

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Brown’s Jeep Busting Budget
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Green Gordon, maybe?
Gordon Brown is expected to clamp down on drivers of so called “gas guzzlers” while giving tax breaks to households that install home wind turbines and solar panels.

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Walkers This Way
March 16, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Walkers Crisps
OK, so obesity in kids is fast becoming an epidemic blamed on junk food and poor diets, but crisp manufacture Walkers is attempting to undo some of the damage its bestowed on our nation’s youth by committing to cut back its CO2 emissions.

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Win DVDs of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’
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Who Killed the Electric Car
We at Global Cool love a good hard-hitting documentary that tells it as it is and sticks it to the man (whoever he is the week). And our favourite of the past 12 months has to be ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ In fact we loved it so much we begged and badgered the film’s distributors to give us five copies to give away to five lucky Global Cool members.

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Crazy Little Thing Called er, Climate Change
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Brian May
Queen guitarist Brian May may well have enjoyed the booze and volauvents at Global Cool’s Downing Street launch in January but the luxuriant-locked musician still appears to be undecided about climate change.

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Blockbusters Battle Global Warming
March 15, 2007 at 6:29 pm
With ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ picking up two Oscars last month, a new trend in Hollywood for all things green on the big screen is on coming soon to a theatre near you.

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God Botherers Get Hot and Bothered
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Evangelical Christians in the US are bitter. Sorry, bitterly divided on the issue of global warming and it appears the repercussions could have serious consequences.

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Hurley’s Burly Carbon Footprint
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Liz & Arun running out of carbon karma
Liz Hurley’s recent nuptials have caused outrage amongst green campaigners having run up a carbon footprint the size of Belgium.

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Ken’s Thoughts on Climate Change Bill
March 14, 2007 at 7:31 pm
High profile politicians, environmentalists and commentators, including Ken Livingstone, have welcomed the announcement of the first draft of the Climate Change Bill yesterday, though some still have their reservations.

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SAS To The Rescue
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SAS
Scandinavian airline SAS is to follow the lead taken by British Airways by giving customers the opportunity to offset the emissions generated by their flights.

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