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Climate Rush protesters mark 100 year Suffragette anniversary by gluing themselves to a statue

April 27, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

A man and three women have glued themselves to the statue of Viscount Falkland outside the central lobby of the Houses of Parliament.

Exactly 100 years ago the Suffragette Margery Humes chained herself to the very same statue. She was removed by force as the police deployed chain clippers.

The 2009 April 27th group are believed to be climate protesters from Climate Rush. The protest is designed to be a wake-up call for the British government. Climate Rush are protesting against the government’s decision to allow a new evolution of coal power plants to be built in Britain.

Britain’s Most Talented Pet

April 27, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The Ultimate Pet Show this year will attempt to find Britain’s Most talented Pet. Held in the NEC Birmingham, this year, between the 2nd of May and the 4th of may the Ultimate Pet Show will feature dancing dogs, singing horses and piano playing pussy-cats.

Britain’s Got Talent winner George Sampson will feature alongside judges Kevin Sacre, the UnderDog winner, and Marc Abraham, TV vet and the dog behaviourist Caroyyn Meneith.

The winner of the competition – held on the 2nd of May – will walk off with prizes worth £250 including a digital camera and a professional pet photography shoot.

Last chance to save Firsland Animal Sanctuary

April 24, 2009 by Andrew 2 Comments

An animal sanctuary on the outskirts of picterquese Torquay will close today unless a good Samaritan steps forward at the last minute.

The sanctuary is currently home to 150 abandoned animals including cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, ducks, chickens, geese, turkeys, Reppy the point, Barbie the sheep and some goats.

Are thetrainline’s new adverts cruel to sheep?

April 20, 2009 by Andrew 1 Comment

British train ticket booking website thetrainline.com are using sheep to support their TV campaign.

Iain Hildreth, Director of Marketing at the trainline, said in this YouTube video that the sheep seemed to be enjoying themselves. Farmer Michelle Waterman, in the same video, explains that these sheep are used to wearing the jackets. It wasn’t made clear how long sheep wear show jackets for and how long they’ll wear the trainline jackets for each day.

Homes at risk after flytippers dump 400 old tyres

April 17, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Houses in Hatton, Warwick, England face the risk of flood after flytippers clogged a vital overflow ditch with hundreds of abandoned tyres.

The culvert at Brownleigh Green Lane, near the Waterman pub, has been visited by Warwick District Council environment officers who have spent hours trying to clear the blockage. The ditch is used as a vital overflow area for an active stream, with the tyres present and the ditch blocked the flood water heads straight for Hatton.

Time for Air France and KLM to stop promoting ivory?

April 16, 2009 by Andrew 1 Comment

Flying Blue is the loyalty program from Air France and KLM. It was created in 2005 when the two airlines merged together and merged the Fréquence plus frequent flyer program with the Flying Dutchman frequent flyer program.

Kenya Airways, Air Europa, Aircalin and Northwest Airlines also make use of Flying Blue.

The frequent flyer program has four levels of membership. At the top there is the Platinum level (equivalent to SkyTeam Elite Plus), below that there is Gold (equivalent to Sky Team Elite), then Silver (Sky Team Elite) and the introductory level is Ivory (Basic).

Cafedirect to fight back against supermarket fairtrade brands

April 15, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Cafedirect says its birth came after the collapse of the International Coffee Agreement in 1989. The fairtrade brand now works with 39 grower organisations, in 13 developing countries and with more than 260,000 farmers.

Tea-direct and Cocodirect, sub-brands for tea and coco products, are expected to come under the Cafeedirect brand in a shakeup being led by CEO Anne MacCaig and comes after a 5% drop in year-on-year sales.

Microsoft and Gnomedex launch Code for Green

April 15, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s Live Search team has joined up with Gnomedex to sponsor a green themed coding contest. They hope that Code for Green will make a difference to both the economy and ecology. As the Live Search blog points out Green = Money and Green = Environment.

Web-based applications need to use the Live Search API (Microsoft wants to promote their search engine) and need to be submitted to willcodeforgreen.gnomedex.com come June the 1st. They must use the Live Search API but are free to use other non-Microsoft products.

Former cluster bomb makers in 2009 World’s Most Ethical Companies award list

April 14, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The list of winners included companies like Dell, Google, Intel, Cisco but also Honeywell International and The aerospace Corporation who both listed in the category “Aerospace and Defense”.

Honeywell International is the company that the famous Honeywell Project was created to oppose. From 1960 to 1990 the Honeywell Project campaigned against (what was then) the Honeywell Corporation in order to persuade them to drop their weapons manufacturing business.

Clean Business Summit recognises Gillian Christie

April 10, 2009 by Andrew Leave a Comment

The CEO and founder of Christie Communications picked up the Joe Nida Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at the Clean Business Investment Summit held this year in Santa Barbara.

Christie Communications describe themselves as a full-service agency offering everything from the strategic approach to the tactical. Their site notes there is nothing they can’t do.

The agency has worked with the South African Rooibos PK Limited and the Gourment Garden HErb and Spice Blends company from Australia.

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