Interview: Liftshare Festival Fringe Award winner Jonny Fluffypunk
Throughout August, Liftshare held a new award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe which was designed to get performers and their fans thinking about their impact on the environment while in the Scottish capital.
Congestion is a very real issue across Scotland and the broader UK, and as the Fringe is the world’s largest cultural event, it’s no secret that the…
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This is a guest blog from our friends at PECT – the Peterborough Environment City Trust – a group that strives for positive green change in and around the city. From carbon offsetting to educating locals about how they can do their bit for the planet, the group has much to offer.
Take it away guys!
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The Edinburgh Fringe is coming to a close on Monday, August 31st, and it’s been a typically busy year in the capital, which has played host to what is arguably the largest cultural event in the world. As you can imagine, the city streets get pretty busy each August and high traffic levels are common, which is why
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We’re just a day away from the close date of our first Liftshare Festival Fringe Award, and we’ve got another entry spotlight for you to check out.
The aim of this award was to invite comedians and performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to send in videos of themselves talking about their green views, what they do to reduce their…
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It’s the last week of our Liftshare Festival Fringe Award, but we still have some great entries from comedians and performers to share with you.
If you’ve only just encountered our award, it’s essentially a new accolade we’ve opened up to acts at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which invites them to send us a video of themselves sharing their…
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This year, Liftshare has been running a brand new comedy award for acts participating in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It’s not just about laughs, as we’re encouraging comedians and performers to say something green – be it their views on car sharing, why Edinburgh is a beautiful city, and why we need to be thinking about sustainability.
In short, we…
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This week, Liftshare launched a brand new comedy award for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which invites comedians from across the world to tell us their views about green and sustainability issues, or do something funny to get people thinking about environmental matters.
Why? Because last year Fringe acts sold over 2 million show tickets, and the Scottish capital…
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Liftshare members regularly travel to UK festivals each year. But whether they’re going to the sprawling epicness that is Glastonbury, or smaller community-led events like the wonderful Village Pump Folk Festival, waste and green concerns are being cast under greater scrutiny than ever before.
That’s why we always encourage our members to travel together via car shares to keep carbon emissions…
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Liftshare exists because the UK’s public transport is unsustainable. As regular as clockwork we see rail fares rise every January, yet the increase in wages isn’t enough to cover the costs. The building of more roads means more cars and pollution, which are at odds with the green aims of businesses and bodies across the country.
In short: the transport sector…
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Electric cars seem to be in high demand across the UK, as sales of the eco-friendly vehicles have quadrupled across the country, according to a new report from sustainability site Edie.net.
It follows our interview with Local Motors – creators of Strati, the world’s first 3D-printed electric car.
Edie’s…
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Liftshare cares deeply about sustainability matters, so imagine our surprise when we saw a series of harrowing mock photos that suggest how London may look should after an environmental catastrophe.
The series of images is called Postcards From The Future, and the collection was created by UK artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc Jones to show…
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Have you ever considered going electric? There was a time when the concept of battery-powered cars was deemed laughable, but today there is an increasing number of drivers ditching petrol and making the switch for the benefit of both the environment and their wallet.
Liftshare aims to help drivers cut back on carbon and save money, so…
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The UK’s leading car-sharing network, Liftshare, is delighted to announce its place as a finalist in the Best Business category of the 2014 Climate Week Awards.
The award recognises the most innovative, ambitious and effective UK-based business that helps individuals and organisations live more sustainably and has a noticeable positive impact on climate change. The winner will be…
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New research published in the journal ‘Scientific Reports’ has found that traffic fumes render the scent of flowers barely recognisable to honeybees and may impact their ability to find food.
With three quarters of the world’s food crops relying on bees and other natural pollinators, the detrimental effects of their decline could cause serious problems.
The study tested bees’ ability in…
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Welcome to
a series of mini broadcasts from industry leaders and influencers exploring how individuals, organisations and brands are challenging today’s environment to shape a more sustainable future. Each broadcast is designed to deliver stimulating ideas, opinions or practices; to inform, inspire and motivate. From the latest…
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Our short animated film about how car-sharing can help YOU. And why liftshare.com is your best chance of finding others going your way. If you want to be more sustainable without giving up your car and want to reduce the amount of money you spend on petrol, have you considered car sharing?
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As an environmentally aware, social enterprise it comes as no surprise that Liftshare’s recent renovation of their new office space, No.4 Duke Street, included a full analysis of options to improve the property from an eco and cost perspective.
After a long search for someone to provide impartial advice help came in the form of Parity Projects, another Ashden Award…
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The world moves at a rapid rate, so much so that apparently the first 1000 year old human has already been born!
Apparently, given the exponentially increasing pace of development in technology, those being born today could ride the wave of innovation. By the time they reach the current maximum life expectancy, advances could have pushed it back to over…
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In just 1 week Defra’s Mandatory Carbon Reporting consultation will close, but just what sort of impact will this reporting have on businesses?
If you are a large company the chances are you are already reporting greenhouse gas emissions via the Carbon Disclosure Project so why is the Mandatory Carbon Reporting important? In a word, or 3, The British Government!
With a target for…
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Gareth Kane, author of The Green Executive and Green Jujitsu, points out how many businesses try to tackle employee engagement…
“The generic approach is like boxing – trying to bludgeon the opponent into submission.”
Attempting to embed a sustainable culture into your business through bombarding employees with ‘green’ emails, instructions and notices, which have no real relevance to their working lives,…