Get Involved

Welcome to Get Involved, the part of Global Cool where you get to have your say. We’d love to hear how you’re living a greener life, whether it’s taking a Traincation, ditching the car for the bus or any of the other hundreds of ways you can help to look after the planet. If you’d like to contribute a story, photo, video or some tips on green living simply email getinvolved@globalcool.org and we guarantee you’ll get a response…

Giving it some welly: Why Glasto is more than just a musical mud bath

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Our latest Get Involved post comes from friend of Global Cool Stephen Ferdinando…

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Life is most certainly not a beach when you look like this: How to go brown the green way this summer

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Our latest Get Involved post comes from Stateside friend of Global Cool Rebecca Sellitti…

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Your must-hear Traincation tracks, feat Jimi Hendrix

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What do you mean you haven’t entered our amazing Traincation to Gurten Festival competition yet?! Seriously, sort your life out. Jimi Hendrix would have entered…

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Five tips for recycling in a modern world

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Our latest Get Involved post comes from friend of Global Cool Liberty-Belle Howard…

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Your must-hear Traincation tracks, feat Bob Marley

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We’ve just started a new Traincation competition on Facebook. If you haven’t noticed seen it yet… where the hell have you been?! We say this only out of genuine concern for you, because unless you enter you’re at serious risk of missing out on a bloody fantastic prize…

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How to be a good egg this Easter (starting with not dressing up as the Easter bunny and getting drunk)

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Friend of Global Cool Rebecca Sellitti, aka @waltandperry, shares her tips for a green Easter…

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Awesome home decor that’s sew good…

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Our latest Get Involved post comes from friend of Global Cool Kathy Marshall. Give a personal and a unique touch to your home in a cool way…

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Pushing the envelope: How to make your post as cool as your clothes

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Got a pile of old style magazines looking for a new home? Bored of the same old brown and white envelopes? Read on…

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Feeling flush… and other tips for being green (or is that brown?)

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Today, friend of Global Cool Chloe Grech reveals the four small steps she’s been taking towards a greener life…

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Kings of the road: Why Colombia is the home of cycling

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Cycling is the hot new trend of the last year in the UK, but we’ve still got some way to go before our roads are as cycle friendly as Colombia’s, writes friend of Global Cool Emma Jones…

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A Traincation love story

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Green stories from Global Cool’s friends, today courtesy of Daniela Herrera, who found love while travelling Europe by train…

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How to make St Patrick’s Day even greener

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On March 17 we all become a little bit Irish. We don green clothing, stuff our faces with corned beef and cabbage and get completely sloshed on stout, purportedly to pay homage to the Patron Saint of Ireland. Since St. Patrick’s Day is supposed to be the greenest day of the year, I think it’s only appropriate we incorporate green living into our celebrations. Here are my five tips for an eco-friendly St. Paddy’s Day…

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Who would you take a Traincation with?

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Over the last couple of weeks on Twitter we’ve been giving away some of the vintage jumpers we had left over from Turn Up The Style, Turn Down The Heat. This week we’ve asked people who their fave celeb would be to take a Traincation with. We got some great responses so we thought we would share our favourites with you…

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Your tips for a greener 2011

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Over the last couple of weeks on Twitter we’ve been giving away some of the vintage jumpers we had left over from Turn Up The Style, Turn Down The Heat. One of the things we asked people to do for a chance to win one was tell us one thing they’ve changed about their life so far in 2011 to be more green…

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