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A snowy London to Brighton
A snowy London to Brighton
This is a guest blog from Adam Herriott of the Environmental Sustainability Society, who cycled from London to Brighton on 11th February. We also caught up with him before he left and recorded this little interview.  Earlier this ...
Posted by Hermione on 22 Feb 2012
1000 Doers
1000 Doers
The final piece of work from the incredible Good for Nothing weekend is here: Emily Underwood's infographic bringing to life the amazing things that you, our first 1,000 doers, have achieved through The DoNation. It needs no ...
Posted by Hermione on 14 Feb 2012
Interview with a Doer: Adam
Interview with a Doer: Adam
Early on Saturday morning, whilst snow stubbornly clung to the common, a couple of determined Doers headed off to cycle from London to Brighton. On Friday afternoon I'd happened to see (via twitter) that they were convening just down ...
Posted by Hermione on 13 Feb 2012
School of Snakes!
School of Snakes!
Amazing. I couldn't help but share these with you: some photos just sent through from Finham Park School in Coventry of the draft excluding snakes that one of their classes made earlier in the term. 60 have been made so far, and ...
Posted by Hermione on 08 Feb 2012
Something from Nothing
Something from Nothing
I wrote a rather gushing blog last week about the incredible Good for Nothing experience, and promised that I'd share the actual outputs with you soon. Well, I like to keep my promises, so here you go. There's more to come, this is ...
Posted by Hermione on 02 Feb 2012
Picks of the Month - January
Picks of the Month - January
The days are getting longer and spring is fast approaching (although it may not feel like that right now!). I suspect many of your new year resolutions to keep fit are hitting a rocky patch, in need of a little extra motivation to keep you on ...
Posted by Hermione on 31 Jan 2012
Good for Nothing
Good for Nothing
It’s 10.30 on Sunday night; I spent the entire weekend in the basement of Fallon on two of the most intensive days of work of my life. I’ve barely slept and I really should be heading to bed. But I just couldn’t help but ...
Posted by Hermione on 23 Jan 2012
Our story, in case you missed it.
Our story, in case you missed it.
Just in case you haven't heard it one hundred times already, here's a nice little re-cap of our story and our raison d'etre: Our story in slides View more presentations from HermioneTaylor.
Posted by Hermione on 17 Jan 2012
#WOW winner!
#WOW winner!
Over the last year or so, we've been lucky enough to have won a couple of awards and accolades in the environmental and social enterprise space. It's been great, a huge encouragement and a real boost for us. But our aim is to ...
Posted by Hermione on 07 Jan 2012
He's a-wombling along
He's a-wombling along
From the teams at Second Nature and Climate Change Solutions to the polar ambassadors; his education team to his tech team; his nutritionist and psychologist to his physical trainer; his project manager to his logistics director, Mark wood has ...
Posted by Hermione on 03 Jan 2012