Was it just my imagination, or did I hear a small ripple of applause from the forests, the wetlands and the glaciers, as the news of the collapse of Bear Stearns leaked into the public realm.

If you go to a company web site to make a complaint you will have to fill out a form: don't waste your time! Your message will not be read. Companies hate e-mails going to real people because humans respond to things - here's how to e-mail real people...

So I'm browsing the Guardian web site and I come across this little nugget. Someone (I'm not sure they have really as it's really an advert) has asked those nice people at British Gas how to save energy. "Of course!" BG cry, "We can save you money!"

Ok, being uber-cool in jeans, t-shirt and Ugg boots on a stage in front of 300 environmentalists of varying shades is not, in itself, reason to have someone walk out on you, but I did give it at least 2 minutes before I left. Here's why.

Forget the fact that the atmosphere and its greenhouse gases does not respect national boundaries; the rich nations and their corporations are buying the atmosphere from the Earth and there is no way they are giving it back. Cap and Trade is irreversible.

I'm struggling to work out why this is written as a "gloom and doom" article. There is a global surge in wind turbine demand and the manufacturers are at full capacity, expanding their facilities into a number of new countries. Scotland can go it alone.

Greenpeace is furious at the decision to allow DaimlerChrysler to sponsor Saturday's string of Live Earth concerts. The group claims Daimler is an environmentally unfriendly organization that should not be affiliated with the

It can't have been more than 20 years ago that Inter Railing was the gap-year choice for students in Europe. Now it seems that as rail costs have risen, and the networks have fragmented flying has become the de facto choice for students.

Think of the last company or organisation you worked for. Do you feel loyal to that company? Was your company loyal to you? Now, what would you have done if you had discovered something bad while you were working for that company?

Tesco. The largest supermarket chain in the UK. A company desperately trying to change its image from the behemoth that swallows up small shops' trade, sucks farmers dry and crushes acres of land upon which to build its phenomenal success.