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Big Green Video Picks
Each week, we pick out the best short videos on the web highlighting green campaigns, issues and education.If you've spotted a great green video on YouTube or Google Video that you think we should include here, click here to tell us about it.
MAKING ENERGY SAVING EASY - Joanna Yarrow
 | With the credit crunch biting, we need ways to save some pennies. So Ariel has put together a vodcast to show you the small changes that can be made around home with minimal expense, effort and time.
Think you are too busy to be green? Think again, the five minute long vodcast will be full of tips that take no more that 15 minutes to implement with some only taking a minute or two. You can watch them on your way home and put them into practice by the time you go to bed!
Ariel has also linked with the Energy Saving Trust to sponsor Thursday 23rd October as part of Energy Saving Week, a link which is in its third year demonstrating Ariels commitment to environmental issues.
Energy Saving Week is an event, designed to drive energy usage down in the UK and to promote significant behavior change amongst all of us. Crucial to this is making energy efficiency at home simple, easy and quick to implement. [watch video] |
Energy Efficient Penguin
 | Funny animation which brilliantly illustrates just how much less energy a low energy bulb needs compared to standard bulbs. [watch video] |
Green-Car-Guide Live! 2008
 | A quick 4-minute tour of this year's Green-Car-Guide Live! show in Liverpool. The exhibition took place in June 2008 and was the was the UK's largest Green Motor Show showcasing the latest low-emission vehicles and technologies. [watch video] |
Polar bears discuss the cause of global warming
 | Amusing but point-making public service film from Australia shows two animated polar bears discussing how they must be to blame for global warming as "humans wouldn't possibly let this happen".
Video hosted on GoGreenTube.com, a great new place for green videos. |
Eco Kettle product review
 | SmartPlanet.com test out the UK's most popular enegry-saving gadget, the Eco kettle. [watch video] |
Wind turbine construction video
 | Time-lapse video from Ecotricity showing the contruction of three wind turbines in Bristol Port.
Together, the turbines will produce over 15 million units of new green electricity annually, enough to save around 13,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year for the next 30 years!
[watch video] |
10 ways to save energy
 | 10 quick tips from the Energy Saving Trust on ways you can save energy around the home. [watch video] |
Energy Saving Trust Lightbulb Challenge
 | The Energy Saving Trust set the public a challenge. Were they able to tell the difference between an energy efficient lightbulb and a traditional one? [watch video] |
Act On CO2 advert
 | This short film from the Government's Act on CO2 campaign makes the clear and concise point about how energy use in your home creates CO2 emissions, and how we can all reduce our emissions to help tackle climate change.
[watch video] |
Carbon Trust Standard - real climate change action
 | The Carbon Trust Standard shows which organisations have actually reduced their carbon emissions and so are taking real action on climate change. Its supported by Greenpeace and the CBI. For more info: www.carbontruststandard.com [watch video] |
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