Cycling is certainly having a fashion moment, even making it into the Sunday Times’ Style magazine. If you’re keen to look the part, check out Cyclodelic, the new women’s cycle range that’s got its own concession in Topshop. http://cyclodelic.wordpress.com/

And not forgetting the men, check out Rapha’s cult performance roadwear.

From 27 April, pedestrian campaigners, Living Streets, are encouraging us all to walk to work. With a neat microsite allowing workplaces to track individual and collective progress on total calories burned, carbon saved and distance walked, there’s potential for healthy competition within and between organisations. If your colleagues need a bit of extra encouragement, go to the main website to download campaign materials, or just make a pledge to walk yourself.http://www.walkingworks.org.uk/

And if you need directions for getting there on foot, check out www.walkit.com. Covering 14 UK cities, just enter your start and finish points and you’ll get a pedestrian route, plus how long it will take, how many calories you’ll burn and how much CO2 you’ll save.

Slow down London: 24 April – 4 May. Challenging the cult of speed and encouraging us to enjoy the moment, this new Southbank festival offers an exciting programme of events including slow food and slow art. ‘Slow traveller’ Ed Gillespie who went round the world without flying shares his thoughts on the green benefits of being a slow-coach. Check out full festival details and the programme at: http://slowdownlondon.co.uk/

Bristol’s Festival of Ideas hosts an incredible line up of inspiring and challenging speakers in early May. Human rights activist Helen Bamber, psychotherapist Susie Orbach, cartoonist Steve Bell, designer Wayne Hemmingway and novelist Monica Ali are all involved, with one of the world’s leading philosophers, A C Grayling exploring environmentalism, bioethics and other ideas that will shape this century: www.ideasfestival.co.uk

Mud, sweat and tractors: Using archive footage to ring the changes over the last 50 years, this BBC4 series tells the history of farming and food production in the UK. Search at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

India: Children of the Inferno is a shocking documentary highlighting the environmental and human damage caused by coalmining. Children mine the fossil fuel as it smoulders and villagers’ health and homes are ruined as new and dangerous mines are dug by hand.
Search at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/catch-up/

Showcasing the work of photographers shortlisted for the 2008 Prix Pictet global sustainability photography award, Water is a sumptuous coffee table book with an impressively diverse take on a vital subject. From the dustbowl of China’s extreme water extraction to Hurricane Katrina and the inevitable melting icebergs, you can check out the photographers here http://www.prixpictet.com/artists/.

Far North is the latest novel to explore life after a climate change eco-apocalypse. Marcel Theroux’s rather grim vision sees human survivors turning to religion or slavery in an attempt to find meaning in the absence of civilisation, community or family.

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At OPC, we believe that films, books, art and design can shock and inspire people to go greener. If that’s ever happened to you, we’d love to know about it! What was your cultural catalyst, why was it so powerful and what’s happened since?

Let us know at http://oneplanetculture.blogspot.com/ or email us at eac@capacity.org.uk.