Top Gear, one of the most popular British shows, a must-see on every Sunday night for Britons, usually consists of numerous displays of smoking tires, rumbling engines and mind-blowing speeds. But in June, the pattern suddenly shifted to something else. Shockingly enough, a show about full-throttle driving thrills, now has fuel-efficiency as a serious theme, as Jeremy Clarkson, one of the hosts, spoke about cutting fuel bills through driving in another way, a smarter one. Visit his blog (http://www.topgear.com/blogs/planettopgear/129-jeremy-top-fuel-tips/ ) to see his list of fuel-saving tips, with which, supposedly, he drove 60 miles with fuel for only 12.

Meanwhile, one of the first - if not the first - environmentally-friendly nightclub made its way on the map of London’s nightlife. Surya, a bar & club around King’s Cross, is a proud pioneer of a larger manifest, Club4Change. Its founder, Andrew Charalambous, an eye-brow raising bloke, that goes around as ‘Dr. Earth’, tells us that ‘there’s no reason why environmental awareness and hedonism shouldn’t go hand in hand’. See more here: http://www.club4climate.com/

Needless to say what the previous examples have in common. Welcome to an age where going green is groovy. It is clear that more and more people understand the straightforward science that’s just a step away from shouting: ‘Look at what you unconscious bloody idiots are doing’. Although relatively few in numbers, these changes look very promising. Airlines are reducing their planes’ speeds, ethanol-mixed fuel is constantly increasing its availability, a plethora of wind farm projects are currently being set into motion and energy companies are tirelessly researching energy-efficient ideas.

But what’s really promising is that these green innovative ideas, methods or projects start to spring out from unlikely places. An example of Steve Job’s ’stay hungry, stay foolish’: