treading lightly through life
For someone who works freelance and is constantly stranded between meetings with a spare hour to kill and a lovely new mac to play with this is the solution….. Lap Top Friendly Cafes site and app. Does what it says in the title – works for US, UK and Oz.
“My blog is carbon neutral” is an initiative, originally started in Germany by the “Make it green” programme, that has the goal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
They plant a tree for your blog and thereby neutralise your blog’s carbon footprint for the next 50 years!
Everyone can make a small contribution to the environment. Every tree counts!
Here’s how you can participate:
From the Now Show, 18/12/09. Marcus Brigstocke gives us a Dr Seuss-style take on events at Copenhagen.
Wowee, not sure they thought this one through, if they did then it’s pretty tasteless! The Canary Islands are encouraging you to take planes this winter to visit them and somehow thought using a polar bear to illustrate this point made perfect sense. I’m thinking a plane, climate issue and a polar bear combo have an entirely different message!
Timing wise is interesting too seeing as the Copenhagen climate change summit is in full swing!
Not good.
The Canary’s are already under attack for reclassifying some of their indigenous plants from ‘endangered’ to ‘vulnerable’ when they are still in dramatic decline. But hey, who needs lovely flora and forna when you can have another 2* self catering development!!? Silly silly people.
Absolutely godamn INSPIRED! Wish I’d thought of it.
Download and install the Dogooder a plug-in from http://dogoodhq.com/(got to try it to see) – it replaces normal ads on websites with messages of how to do good or non-profit paid inventory instead.
Underlying ads still get served so publishers get paid, and 50% of new profits go to… charities (like Green Thing). Like i said, freakin genius!
Brian Campbell has created a rockin bike trailer. He currently lives in his mobile home, but is keen to turn this into a business and stop living on the streets. You can read the full article on Tree Hugger.
Check out the slideshow below for more photos.
If you are interested in learning more about Brian’s work, or if you’d like to buy a trailer you can contact him via Bike Portland.
The yellow dots are aircraft in the sky during a 24 hour period. Stay with the picture. You will see the light of the day moving from the east to the west, as the Earth spins on its axis. Also you will see the aircraft flow of traffic leaving the North American continent and travelling at night to arrive in the UK in the morning Then you will see the flow changing, leaving the UK in the morning and flying to the American continent in daylight. It is a 24 hour observation of all of the large aircraft flights in the world. Scary.
