Here is a green tip for our Swedish readers but I hope people in other countries also have some kind of use of this.

Most people in Sweden today uses different internet services to find telephone numbers and street addresses that they need. No one I know uses the old catalogues. In fact I can’t even remember last time I checked in the paper catalogue for a telephone number or address.

This year about 5,5 million telephone catalogues will be delivered to households in Sweden. Last year only 3500 people cancelled their catalogue. Hopes are that number will be much higher this year. Eniro, the telephone catalogue company, themselves encourage you as it’s cheaper for them and more environmental friendly to make less telephone catalogues. So head over to Eniro and cancel your telephone directory before they send you one!

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We at Green Blog love small green and personal projects and movements (maybe because this blog is one of those?). That’s why we would like to tell you shortly about a guy named Jim and his project called DinkyCard.

Jim wants with his site DinkyCard “create a new, smaller international standard for the size of a business card to save some trees”.

It’s a good idea and if I personally would need a business card someday (in a distant future far away) I would definitely use 2′x1.75′ sized cards.

http://www.dinkycard.org

Greenpeace in India have in the last two weeks been working hard with their climate change campaign “with a series of protests set to the backdrop of massive flooding across South Asia”.

Greenpeace especially try to convince the government in India to ban the ordinary energy wasting incandescent light bulb. If India were to ban energy wasting incandescent light bulbs “it would save at least 12,000 MW of electricity and over 55 Million tonnes of CO2 per year”.

Greenpeace activists have for example protested outside one of India’s historical landmarks, the Mysore palace. Activists have also placed a 20-metre (66ft) life ring in the harbour of the capital of India warning about rising sea levels that “would render most of Mumbai’s low-lying areas uninhabitable”. They have also blockaded the entrance to one of the country’s leading lightbulb manufactures demanding the company to shift its production to CFLs.

Now it’s your turn to help convince the government of India to ban energy wasting incandescent light bulbs by signing the India ban the bulb petition.

- Sign the petition!
- Climate Protests in India

It’s here and LIVE! First out is Australia at 01:15 GMT.

Watch Live Earth live on MSN. Learn more about Live Earth and sign the pledge.

Answer the call!

The energy revolution starts today! Join the global movement and take action against the climate crisis: http://www.liveearth.org

You can also join Greenpeace’s seven step challenge to cut down on your energy usage: greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/take_action/7steps

Thank you!

Greenpeace has very recently launched an online campaign where you sign up and every week a challenge is sent to your email. There is a total of seven challenges.

When you sign up, we’ll send you 7 challenges over 7 weeks. Each challenge will be something anyone can do, and comes with detailed advice (plus a chance to share your own ideas). We’ll also let you know about other ways you can help save our planet. Everyone’s talking about climate change. You’re doing something about it.

From what I have heard the final challenge will be something special. Eoin Dubsky from Greenpeace has this to say about challenge number seven:

Joining the campaign means you will get an email every week for seven weeks from Greenpeace (seven steps in total). Steps one, two and three are about changing your own lightbulbs and raising awareness about the campaign. Steps four, five and six are about demanding change from retailers, manufacturers and governments. Finally, step seven is a special surprise — all I can say is “action!”.

Take action, join the challenge!