This looks to me like one of those products that desperately wants to be green but can't quite give up the short-haul flights. The thinking behind it is that you pop the wooden 'sleeve' over a standard issue coffee cup, and hey presto, you've got a sturdy cup you can use again and again. But the blurb also suggests you use it as a bracelet, suggesting you do go ahead and ditch the coffee cup after use anyway, which really means all it does is keep your hands cool and makes a nice bangle. And are takeaway coffee cups really re-usable anyway?
The most good I can see this doing is removing the need for the additional heatproof sleeves we sometimes use to protect our hands from scorching coffee, but that's not going to save a whole lot of trees (not least the ones it's made out of!). I suggest you keep the cool bangle and invest in a nice flask to solve the hands/coffee issue instead. [Via DVICE]
Forget Earth hour! 1st April is Energy Wasting Day. A list of tips on the best ways to waste energy has been published in advance of the occasion, including "fill the kettle right up to the brim and make yourself a nice little cup of tea" and "turn your thermostat up to the max and pop on a pair of shorts".
If Mayoral candidate Sian Berry's Alliance Against Urban 4x4s isn't hardcore enough for you, here's a campaign from the states that really lets you vote with your, um, fingers.
The F*** You Hummer project aims to give the 'ultimate H2 salute' to anyone selfish enough to drive one of these gas-guzzling monstrosities.
The site's owner urges readers to send in pictures of their 'giving the bird' to Hummer H2 drivers, and surprisingly, 4566 people already have. But remember kids -- as the site itself admits, the H2 is a 'death machine' and ought to be approached with caution...
Recycled art is all the rage, and plastic makes a great basis for an arresting sculpture: it's tough, comes in every colour of the rainbow and scores highest in recycling points as it would otherwise take so long to biodegrade.
Artist Robert Bradford is using discarded plastic toys to full effect in his upcoming exhibition, which will be in London from the start of next month. 'Plastic', which features as well as the dog above a much less friendly AK-47 made out of toys, will go on display at the Trafalgar hotel, just off Trafalgar Square on 2nd April.
This little piggy will teach your kids two of life's most important lessons in one go: save money and help the environment.
The adorable pointy-eared, slender legged pig has a slot for coins which undoubtedly hit his aluminium abdoment with a satisfying 'clunk'. In a previous incarnation the pig was a bottle, which has been neatly fashioned into its new shape by artist Luitpol Ruiz Gaviria in Peru. Available with free shipping from Novika
Here at Shiny Towers, we're bringing back the musical 'oasis' that was the 1990s today, with a playlist featuring some of our favourite artists at the pinnacle of their careers...
If you're as old as I am, however, you'll remember only too well that it wasn't all music to our ears. Here's Technohead's 'I want to be a hippy' to remind you just how bad it got. Should I adopt it as the site's anthem?
Nuts in May is a Mike Leigh film that not many people seem to have watched. You should do; it's genius. But it's also a fascinating illustration of how environmentally minded people were seen as complete mentalists as recently as the '70s; Candice-Marie and 'Keef' were about the biggest pair of losers you can imagine. Free range eggs, you say? Getting your protein from vegetables? What on earth were they bleating on about? It's a fascinating look at how much things have changed.
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