The fast-penned Leonora Oppenheim has produced her second Treehiugger article on the Do Lectures, all about taking the first step. We pretty much know what needs to be done to make this civilisation of ours a little smarter, better and more civilised. We know the steps. We just need to start Doing them. Leonora’s highlights [...]

Pictures are appearing all over the web, flickr and other sites, capturing the essence of last week’s Do Lectures in close up. One particularly good example is this one from George Gilbert. It was a huge bonus to have so many talented professional and hobby photographers capturing the images of the talks that will be [...]

Last weekend’s Do Lectures were the most amazing weekend of my life; four days spent with some of the brightest, most caring Doers that you could ever hope to meet. Do colleague Leonora Oppenheim is blogging summaries of the talks on Treehugger. Here’s a taster: “Turn off your TV”, “Get Rid of your TV”, “I [...]

The Guardian posted an article today announcing that Simon Dee, the UK’s first chatshow host had died. He used to stay at Whitesands Bay Hotel, where I now live and I have great memories of playing with him and his son when I was in my teens, recovering treasure (as we saw it) from the [...]

Franny Armstrong and her amazing team from the Age of Stupid have created a new campaign, 1010, which launches at the Tate Modern in London on Tuesday 1st September. The idea is simple, and impact potentially huge: commit to reducing your carbon footprint by 10% in 2010, by targetting the four biggest areas of carbon [...]

A good article has been published by Georgia Tech describing the way that the multi-facted shell shapes of the Jewell Beetle are used to create colours. The researchers who have been studying the design sense an opportunity to create a biomimetic adaptation of the principles to create smaller optics. We’ve only started to unpick the [...]

Greengaged at the Design Council brings together designers, thinkers, doers and makers for a week of talks and interactive events. I’ll be speaking there with colleagues Michael Pawlyn from Exploration Architecture, Julian Vincent, Melissa Sterry and others for a day on ‘Biomimicry in Design’. Email the link at the start of the article to register [...]