“We wanted to prove that ethical choices can be funny, beautiful and sexy. The logical place to start was knickers!” So explains Sarah Lucy Smith, an underwear designer with a difference. In bright colours and sporting slogans and ribbons, the knickers are made of bamboo, hemp and silk sourced from fair trade cooperatives. And for people whose partners need that little bit extra information on global warming, there’s even a pair showing rising sea levels as the wearer heats up! Read our case study here and find out more at www.greenknickers.org.

Looking for a one-off? Ever-innovative Oxfam has launched an online second hand store, selling the best of its donated items. With user-friendly search functions and clear images, you can have a virtual rummage without even leaving the house. www.oxfam.org.uk

Smart in all senses of the word, Nike’s Considered Design process is showing how technology can combine with eco-fashion. By scrutinising the environmental impacts of a product’s production and life cycle, the company sources more sustainably and reduces waste and toxics without compromising performance standards. The iconic Pegasus trainer, Nike’s top-selling running shoe, is now Considered. www.nikebiz.com

Plonky name, funky initiative, London Fashion Week’s platform for friendlier fashion showcased over 35 organic, fair trade and recycled labels, including established brands
People Tree (www.peopletree.co.uk) and Beyond Skin (www.beyondskin.co.uk) and newcomers Izzy Lane (www.izzylane.com) and Goodone (www.goodone.co.uk). Applications for an exhibition space in September 2009 are now welcome.

As featured in all the glossies, swishing offers a glamorous take on good, old fashioned clothes-swapping. For everything you need to know about hosting your own swishing party, check out www.swishing.org.

Take a look at Marie-Claire magazine’s top 10 eco-fashion brands. www.marieclaire.co.uk

Water movements in Latin America
Water justice activists gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia in August 2008 to envision just and sustainable models of water stewardship and to build alliances that will bring these visions to fruition. A compelling visual insight into a dynamic international movement building practical alternatives to privatization. http://www.tni.org/

The Age of Stupid
Down the green carpet in Leicester Square comes The Age of Stupid, this year’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. Starring Pete Postlethwaite as the last man on earth, the film looks back from a ravaged 2055 at the documentary evidence we were too stupid to act on. Opening on the 20th March, the film needs your help if it’s to be seen by the numbers required. Visit this page in a few weeks’ time to find out how OPC can help you host
your own screening.http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/

White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
If you’re in London on Saturday 21 March, hurry to the British Film Institute, where director Peter Bate will introduce a special screening of this part-dramatised documentary exploring Belgian’s brutal colonisation of land and the people of the Congo.
www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/white_king_red_rubber_black_death

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 athttp://oneplanetculture.ning.com/ or email us at eac@capacity.org.uk.

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