What this is, and what it is not

The publication

Global Cool reports on low carbon living in the United Kingdom: transport, clothing, heating and household energy. It is independent, it publishes nothing on behalf of anyone, and it takes no position it cannot support from a named source.

Everything published here is written under the publication's own name. There are no author personas and no invented credentials. Where a piece is contributed, it carries the contributor's real name and nothing else.

The domain, and the organisation that used to hold it

Between 2007 and roughly 2015 this address carried a consumer magazine run by the Global Cool Foundation, a company registered in England and Wales under number 05850277. Companies House records that company as dissolved on 12 December 2017.

Global Cool is an independent publication. It is not the Global Cool Foundation, the charity dissolved in 2017, and it is not that charity's successor. No part of this site is published on that organisation's behalf, with its involvement, or with any claim to continue its work. It has no trustees here, no patrons here and no supporters here. People who appeared in its campaigns fifteen years ago have no connection to this publication and are not represented as having one.

There is no donation page and there will not be one. Collecting money in the name of a dissolved organisation is not a copy problem to be phrased carefully around. It is something this site will not do at all.

The archive

67 pages from that era are kept here at their original addresses. They are kept because other sites still cite them: encyclopaedia references, newspaper articles, forum threads. When those addresses stop resolving, the citations get stripped out and the record of what was actually said gets thinner.

A record is not the original article. It states what was published at that address, in which section, on what date where a date can be read, and it links to the Wayback Machine capture it was written from. It does not reproduce the text, and it carries no photographs: most of those were licensed from press agencies by an organisation that no longer exists to license them again.

Of the 67 records, 61 carry a title read from a capture and 54 carry a publication date. The rest say so on the page. A record that admits what could not be established is more useful to somebody checking a citation than a confident sentence that might be wrong.