Nine top eco-fashion labels are challenging young people in the UK to design, produce and sell a sustainable fashion range in a new competition.

Self-proclaimed ‘eco-luxury label’ Butcher Couture launched its debut collection last night in London. Buoyed on by the promise of a quick chardonnay after work, Global Cool went along to find out more.

Mayor Ken Livingstone today launched ‘London Leaders’, a new initiative fronted by 15 of the capital’s finest and designed to build a sustainable future for the city.

We are officially among the most powerful players in London, according to the Evening Standard’s list of the 1000 most influential people in the city.

Global Cool joins forces with fashion designer Nichole de Carle in London tonight for a party to romance the planet. We caught up with Nichole a few hours before the show to find out whether she really is Global Cool.

We’ve teamed up with Vodafone in the UK to recycle 500,000 mobile phones, raising funds for planet saving projects across the world. One of those is SolarAid, an initiative to develop solar energy in Zambia, bringing light and energy to the people who need it most. We caught up with SolarAid’s Nick Sireau to find out more.

Joe Oliver is the 23 year-old founder of BASH Creations, the first eco-entertainment company in the UK. For this week’s Cool People, Global Cool Web Editor Gavin Bower went round to Joe’s apartment in Soho for a quick chat over breakfast.

Global Cool Chairman and CEO Julian Knight met with Green TV to talk climate change, celebrities and saving a planet.