Dancing powers the lights but doesn’t flush the toilets!

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by Green Assembly

“MORE than ten thousand people go dancing in this city every weekend,” Stef van Dongen told reporters at Club Watt in Rotterdam recently, “and they care about the environment as much as anyone else.”
“An average nightclub, “he explained, ” uses mains electricity at a rate 150 times higher than an average household, but it doesn’t [...]

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Carrotmob Makes it Rain

Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Green Assembly

EVERYONE needs to buy things. But we tend not to spend our money in a socially organized way. So Carrotmob, a new environmental advocacy group, had an idea: what if those seeking the same kind of product got together, pooled their money, and used it to collectively support local companies that were also doing their [...]

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