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• Conferences Shouldn’t Cost the Earth

  Given the worsening ecological situation, can showering conference attendees with gifts still be seen as an act of thoughtfulness?

• Lanyards. What Are They Good For?

  Lanyards — the piece of fabric that allows you to hang a conference badge from your neck — have a lifespan of just a few hours. How can we change that?

• How to Use a Paper Towel

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• iWant

  I’ve recently felt frustrated and annoyed as once again friends and colleagues open their wallets and buy the latest product unveiled by Steve Jobs.

• SXSW: Greener is Better

  I’ve decided to attend next years SXSW Interactive festival followed by a tour of North America. The details of where I’ll be visiting and for how long remain undecided, but I imagine my itinerary will be varied and involve much travelling by train.

• Enough: A Counter Argument

  A few months ago I wrote about not upgrading to the iPhone 4, regardless of the fact I’m eligible for a free upgrade. This turned out to be something of a radical position but I enjoyed the debate that followed.

• A Greener Conference Badge for dConstruct

  dConstruct has long combined its conference programme with the name badge, a simple yet cost-effective design. This year we hope to go one better.

• Four Hundred & Twenty-Nine Pounds

  As the masses on Twitter congratulate themselves on their latest technology purchase, I feel strangely removed from all the excitement.

• Reflecting on Hack The Planet

  A follow-up on Hack The Planet, our hack day held in Birmingham last month.

• Green My South By

  Once again, I feel the duty falls upon me to remind those attending this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, that you really need not pick up that big, heavy, cumbersome and frankly useless bag of marketing junk.

• A Green Focus

  I ended my review of 2009 promising to write more about green issues and how I plan to lessen my impact on the environment. Now I expand on those ideas further.

• Hack The Planet is Tomorrow!

  Just a quick reminder that Hack The Planet takes place tomorrow, starting at 10am.

• The Multipack Presents: Being Green

  After the success of the first ‘Multipack Presents’ event in February, so we return to the plush offices of One Black Bear to learn how the web can help us become eco-friendly citizens.

• Nothing Green About SXSW

  Friday saw the start of this years SXSW interactive, film and music festivals in Austin Texas, and once again they highlight the scourge of swag: the ‘stuff we all get’ that soon becomes the stuff we don’t want.