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    Meat Free Monday

    The McCartney’s take on meat and so should we all

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    This Because pops up

    Your one stop pop up shop to consume differently this Christmas

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    Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean by Sophie Thomas

    The Plastic Problem: We talk to Sophie Thomas about her new collection Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean

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    Dump Run

    It’s a song made entirely with a recycled Yamaha keyboard found in the local recycling centre.

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    Fearless ethical fashion: Zady

    We speak to a fashion brand doing things differently: It’s a systemic issue. We’re not afraid of that. We’re building a company that proves there is a better way.

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    Righteous Rapanui

    We have partnered with Rapanui: The clothes company not trying to work towards sustainability, but building their business on it.

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    Cartoons versus Climate Change

    A friend to Do The Green Thing and the environment, we talk to the brain behind Cartoon Ralph, a cartoonist who isn’t content to let things slide.

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    Creativity Against Consumption for Earth Overshoot Day

    Earth Overshoot Day is fast approaching, here is what you can do…

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    Not so Impossible: The economy of gift exchange

    We had the absolute pleasure of catching up with Impossible founder Lily Cole to find out how the art of giving was fairing.

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    Use your Weapons of Reason

    Weapons of Reason: the magazine reinventing the way we communicate climate change.

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    Innocent Unplugged

    A weekend off the grid

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    We talk to the leader of the Green Party

    We speak to Green Party leader Natalie Bennett about some of the key issues that we’re thinking about in the run-up to the General Election.

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    Earthmojis by Do The Green Thing

    Download your Earthmoji placards here

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    An Evening with Everyday Things

    Pentagram recently hosted a private view of ‘Everyday Things’, a collection of 19 objects by artists and designers curated by Do The Green Thing and WWF-UK to promote Earth Hour 2015.

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    A Journey of Nine Pencils

    Pencils To The End by Do The Green Thing

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    Earthmojis: Protest Placards for the World

    Earthmojis: Protest Placards for the World

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    Everyday Things for Earth Hour

    We have launched our new campaign for Earth Hour 2015, the Everyday Things collection.

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    Streetbank

    Streetbank say share with your neighbours

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    Forests Are For Life

    The incredible work behind the FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) logo is revealed in this interview.

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    Pedalling petals to your door

      Bringing bikes to the beck and call of flowers, we give to you the brains behind the flower delivery company with a difference, Petalon. Created by florist Florence Hill, it was a business plan that joined up all the dots: on hand bikes, the flower market around the corner, and a currently unsustainable yet popular industry of sending bouquets. Petalon

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    The charity changing the food chain

    An estimated 400,000 tonnes of usable surplus food can be saved from UK supermarkets each year. Since May 2009, community based charity Foodcycle, have reclaimed over  130,000kg of surplus food from food retailers – the equivalent of saving 585,000kg in CO2 emissions. This week we are talking to Foodcycle’s Steven Hawkes about the charity that builds communities by combining volunteers, surplus food and spare

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    A call to all young UK creatives for Earth Hour 2015

      Design a light switch and save the planet   DTGT and WWF-UK have teamed up ahead of Earth Hour on 28th March 2015 and are running a competition for young (16-25) creative talents around the country to design a light switch. The winning design will be chosen to headline the ’15 Everyday Things’ campaign in March 2015, in which

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    Less Waste, More Christmas

    Getting crafty for Christmas   To bring in the festive cheer this year, we have taken on our own challenge and have decided to have a go at making the Christmas poster.  Armed with recycled scrap paper and pritt-stick, we launched our festive attack, squabbling over who will be taking home what (the santa-hat-pencil-top has caused some heated discussion).  

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    2071 Reviewed

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    My Cyber Monday struggle by Naresh Ramchandani

    My Cyber Monday struggle by Naresh Ramchandani   Cyber Monday is upon us. Completing four days of rampant consumerism that began with Black Friday, it is our annual commercial clickfest, and boy do we splurge. On this day last year, the UK spent £10,000 every second, mostly on technotronica. And today we are likely to beat our previous record as

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    This Changes Everything

    Do The Green Thing offers its take on Naomi Klein’s agenda setting book This Changes Everything.

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    Biodegr(edible). The new disposable.

    Party cups that are “so biodegradable you can eat them.” LOLIWARE’s fantastic solution to unnecessary waste.

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    Holiday at Home One Minute Brief Responses

    Yesterday we had another hugely successful One Minute Briefs ad campaign. Thanks to everyone who entered, you’ve definitely persuaded us to stay grounded this summer.

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    One Minute Briefs are back! Create an ad for staying at home this summer.

    Today we’re teaming up with One Minute Briefs once again, and this time we’re asking you to advertise the wonders of staying at home for your summer holiday. There are some fantastic prizes to be won. Get thinking!

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    Not So Far-A-Field

    Can you imagine having a small farm a few steps away from your block of flats? Urban farming is taking off in a big way, which is fantastic news for lowering the carbon footprint of our food.

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    Is This Why CO2 Emissions Are Sky High? You Bet

    A mesmerising video reveals exactly how much we love to fly around the world. But how can we make our journeys lighter on the environment instead?

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    Make Your Own Fun, Create A Creature!

    It’s competition time! See if you can make a little recycled creature inspired by Constanza Gaggero’s wonderful poster.

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    Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach

    The Dirty Beach art collaboration between Lou McCurdy and Chloe Hanks has created an eye-opening exhibition in the playful guise of a supermarket to remind us of the need to cut down on our relentless plastic consumption.

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    Breaking the Habit of Breaking Umbrellas

    Ayca Dundar has finally dreamed up the perfect umbrella, one that won’t break at the first sight of bad weather, giving us even fewer excuses not to go by foot.

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    The Beautiful Side of Climate Change

    The Guardian is currently hosting a mesmeric piece of digital art that allows you to create your own tornado – a reminder of the brutal, but occasionally beautiful, strength of the natural world.

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    Luis! Ditch the Meat and Go Green

    After Luis Suarez’s latest misdemeanour Do The Green Thing have a few words of advice. We already eat too much bloody meat so why not replace the Italian with a Torta Pascualina?

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    Seven Rules of Slow Travel from ‘Only Planet’ Author Ed Gillespie

    Having travelled the world without boarding a single plane, Ed Gillespie put his life-changing challenge into words. We spoke to the Futerra co-founder, who have us his seven rules of slow travel to inspire us to ditch planes for a slower and more mindful way of seeing the world.

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    Paddy Power Kick Up A Fuss In Brazil

    Paddy Power’s latest PR stunt for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil has caused a stir. If their track record is anything to go by, we’re hardly surprised.

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    When a Pencil Becomes a Plant

    To combat throw-away culture, they have designed an ingenious wooden pencil which can be planted in a pot once it was been worn down to a stub. With a bit of love, water and sunshine, the pencil stub will grow, develop roots, and blossom into a fully-fledged plant that will provide fresh vegetables and herbs.

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    Coca Cola’s Bottle Cap Happy Hacks

    Today we learned about an innovative sustainability initiative that inspires people to make waste into something wonderful. Empty plastic bottles – the possibilities are almost endless…

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    One Hundred Posters. One Love. Cycling.

    Bike-crazy creative Thomas Yang combines his passion for cycling and his appreciation of design. The result? An immensely inspiring poster project called 100copies.

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    Do The Green Thing’s One Minute Brief Responses

    Yesterday we asked the One Minute Brief community to pedal their best ideas and produce an ad campaign to make cycling sexy – without any nudity. Having pulled in over 100 responses to our brief, OMB founders Nick Entwistle & James Clancy vowed to go biking in the buff but we’re yet to see any proof.

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    One rule. One minute. Create an ad for cycling.

    Newsflash! Today we have teamed up with the nice guys at One Minute Briefs on a brief with some great prizes up for grabs, courtesy of Pentagram and Easyart.

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    Poetry for Purer Air by Simon Armitage

    British poet Simon Armitage has crafted some striking poetry for a air pollution-defying installation at the University of Sheffield. “If every banner, flag or advertising poster in the country did this, we’d have much better air quality,” says Simon.

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    Meet the Winners of the WPP New Blood Brief

    Earlier this year, WPP asked young creatives to create a campaign for Al Gore that not only makes people accept we have a problem, but persuades them to do something about it. Of course, we were eager to see what people would come up with, as ‘change habits, change the world’ is very much what we ask of contributors who tackle our Creativity V Climate Change brief. Here is a quick run through the seven savvy winners…

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    Calling All Social Entrepreneurs

    Today the Do The Green Thing team checked into Living It Festival at Google Campus for ideas inspiration from some brilliant brains in the world of social enterprise.

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    The Art of the Journey

    Your favourite walking and cycling routes visualised as striking poster designs.

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    20 Day Stranger App Helps Us Build Compassion For Others

    A unique initiative with sees two strangers from different parts of the world trade lives.

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    Listen to Gaylord Nelson

    We paid tribute to one of the planet’s brightest brains in sustainability with a triptych of posters for Earth Day. The series were an even-handed collaboration between a group of creatives. The result? Well, see for yourself…

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    Our Co-founder Naresh Ramchandani Lists His Media Top 10s

    “Agonising but ultimately satisfying”

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    Dothegreenthing.com Gets a Facelift

    Our new website is now live! We invite you to come and have a poke around, see what’s changed and tell us what needs fixing.

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    29 Posters for the Planet

    Today we are launching our 29 Posters for the Planet campaign with WWF-UK to inspire the world for Earth Hour and beyond. We will bring you a poster a day from creative legends like David Shrigley, Sir Paul Smith, Rankin and many others.

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    Pick a Poster for the Planet

    Which young creative will join the likes of Paula Scher, Quentin Blake and David Shrigley and inspire the world with a brilliant poster for WWF’s Earth Hour this March? It’s up to you to decide.

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    Meet Our Six Competition Finalists

    Our Earth Hour young creative competition closed on Monday the 13th January and drew 250+ responses to our Creativity v Climate Change brief. The judges have pick their six, and they’re all brilliant in their own right.

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    Planet Day at BTMU

    Our poster exhibition travelled to Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in London to get their staff talking about how they can be greener at work and and at home.

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    Do The Green Thing at 2022NQ

    Our green inspiration is heading ‘up norf’ to the brilliant 2022NQ in Manchester’s chic and sassy Northern Quarter.

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