Use Canvas Bags: The Anthem
Tim Minchin's Environmental Anthem film clip recorded for BBC3's Comedy Shuffle.
Gomi Style - DIY Cardboard Furniture Reuse Design
Learn how to make cool functional furniture with cardboard! Gomi Style is a DIY lifestyle and design show created by San Francisco Bay Area makers, artists and engineers using found objects, recycled materials, and technology.
New product: Kirei Board
Kirei Board is an engineered panel product constructed from the stalks of the Sorghum plant grown around the world for food. The stalks left over after harvest are heat-pressed with a non-toxic adhesive to form lightweight, strong, unique Kirei Board.
DIY WaterWall
Michelle shows us how to create a beautiful and practical WaterWall for energy savings at home.
Coral reefs need protection
WWF report says last marine wilderness area on the planet must be protected!
Christian the Lion - the full story
Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson said in his autobiography, "I used to count the days on which we hadn't seen Christian, but when they reached 97, I gave up recording them in my diary." Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river.
To see the whole amazing story, you can buy the full dvd at http://www.bornfree.org.uk and help The Born Free Foundation save more wildlife.
To see the whole amazing story, you can buy the full dvd at http://www.bornfree.org.uk and help The Born Free Foundation save more wildlife.
Protect the Polar Bears of Chukchi Sea!
Less than a month after listing polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided to give oil companies legal protection to potentially harm the bears as they move forward with oil and gas exploration and development in Alaska's Chukchi Sea.Head over to the National Wildlife Federation and copy the e-mail they've prepared for people to use as a way to open up their representatives' eyes.
They want you to edit and send the message to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director H. Dale Hall, urging him to protect the Chukchi Sea polar bears, not big oil profits. I say send it to any political figure, Democrat or Republican, you can think of!
Bush bumbles one last time on environment
Adding one final insult to nearly eight years of injury, the Bush administration continued to defy the Supreme Court today by issuing a request for additional comments--an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking—on global warming regulations, rather than the so-called "endangerment determination" that the Court's ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA compelled and senior Environmental Protection Agency officials had argued for. A front-page report in the Washington Post today details the tireless efforts of senior political appointees in the administration to prevent global warming regulations from being in put in place under President Bush. "Today's action caps off eight years of catastrophic negligence on the part of an increasingly irrelevant administration, and removes whatever shadow of a doubt that may have existed about whether it was going to fail to live up to its obligations to the American public, the law, and the Supreme Court to do something real on global warming. The American public, Congress, world leaders, and even career government officials are counting down the days until this administration leaves town and a new president undoes the damage done by President Bush and makes up for nearly a decade of lost time--time we didn't have to waste in the first place. And the first thing the next administration will do is toss the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking into the circular file.
"Stephen Johnson should have left his post long ago, but today's action underscores his complete and utter lack of credibility. Johnson will be remembered not for his decades of public service, but rather for his unswerving fealty to the misguided policies of a failed administration.
"This global warming melodrama has all the set pieces of classic Bush administration political theater: politics coming before science, outright deception of the American public and Congressional investigators, willful disregard for the law and courts, and political meddling at the highest levels to protect favored special interests--with the dark hand of the Vice President visible throughout. Thankfully this drama is near the end of its final act."
News Flash: small Canadian pond to become trash bin
Armed with nothing more than a rod and reel, Andy Murphy is an unlikely environmental warrior, waging a fight against a plan to dump thousands of tonnes of mining waste into a trout pond in southeastern Newfoundland.
The battleground is Sandy Pond, a small tranquil lake not far from Long Harbour on the Avalon Peninsula, about 100 kilometres west of St. John's.
It is at the center of a simmering dispute that pits environmental concerns against the hope for jobs in a region that desperately needs them. ...(read more at Yahoo! Canada)
School Aims for More than Being Green
WSJ's Matt Rivera looks at the Willow School, which views being green as more than just recycling and conserving. The school was planned so that when it was built it would actually improve the environment around it.
Hybrid cars more and more popular
As motorists face gas prices in the $4 range this summer, many are turning to hybrid vehicles as a means of saving money at the pump while also helping the environment. Michelle Miller reports.
Bee-boys drop dead
One of the most interesting Public Service Announcements (PSA) I have come across in a very long while. And the message is an important one: SAVE THE BEES!
Then check out the site that goes along with this PSA. It was created by Haagen-Dazs (yeap, the ice cream makers) but the message is an important one. AND you can download a great little pdf file of a booklet explaining what you can do to attract more bees into your neighborhood. Check it out at helpthehoneybees.com!
Then check out the site that goes along with this PSA. It was created by Haagen-Dazs (yeap, the ice cream makers) but the message is an important one. AND you can download a great little pdf file of a booklet explaining what you can do to attract more bees into your neighborhood. Check it out at helpthehoneybees.com!
Shopping green
There are so many things that people can do to help save the environment. Here are some very simple steps that will help when going shopping.Bring your own bags, preferably cloth or string. Stores tend to be very easy-going about using plastic bags, which are often made of petroleum products and may take hundreds of years to decompose.
Choose paper over plastic, for if you were to ever use a store bag, paper is easier to recycle than plastic.
Think of the packaging. Larger items generally tend to use less packaging than smaller ones - a two liter bottle of Cola costs not only consumes less packaging than a six-pack of individual bottle, but it also costs less.
Visit the local farmers' market. Local produce is fresher, and it does not require large amounts of gas to ship it. You may even find specialty products that don't appear on your local grocery shelf.
Join a co-op, for all the same reasons.
Go shopping with a friend. This can cut down on the use of gas to and from the market.
Look for green "Environmentally Friendly" tags on the items you buy.
Visit thrift shops. There are great bargains, the quality is usually high, and you can get reduced rates by bringing in your own used clothes that you no longer want or need.
Make a shopping list to avoid buying things that seem appealing but you will likely never use. It should be a crime to throw out food that spoiled because you never got to eat it.
Recycle - even at the restaurant. Coffee Cups, cans, tins, Styrofoam plates; everything! There is bound to be a recycling bin, and if there is not, take a small (paper) bag, and drop it off later at a local recycling facility or drop it in your own recycling bin at home.
Compost - making a compost bin for all your food waste cuts down on what goes to the landfill, and it can be used for your garden! Anything from teabags to banana peels to paper kitchen towels can be put in there - as long as it will degrade.
Take it easy. If you feel overwhelmed just make one or two changes to start with. And as those become habits, introduce something new to your shopping routine.
Club4Climate
Dr. Earth wants you to be environmentally aware, but he sees no reason why environmental awareness and hedonism shouldn't go hand in hand. They are not mutually exclusive. With the profits from the music, the nights and the destination going to Friends of the Earth, all you really have to do is dance to save the world.Club4Climate has teamed up with the world leaders in environmentally sustainable dance clubs, Rotterdam’s Enviu/Doll and Sustainable Dance Club. Working on the basis that a club should be self sufficient and not a drain on the environment, the organisation has come up with the varied and interesting ways to be eco-friendly. The strangest of which have been reported in the UK press, whereby Amy Winehouse is set to headline at Watt nightclub, Rotterdam in September. Energy will come from urine and sweat from clubbers and toilets will be flushed by rainwater. Projects Abroad, the gap year organisation recently endorsed by BBC Dragon’s Den star James Caan for their forward thinking initiatives, are working with Club4Climate to send young people to create sustainable dance clubs in New York, Cape Town and Rio de Janeiro.
Steve Norman, from the 80’s pop sensation, the amazing Spandau Ballet,
is signed to produce the Club4Climate CD due to be released in September
2008. It will be a collection of eclectic chillout and sexy, soulful
house tunes.
Having lived in Ibiza for 12 years, there is nothing that Steve Norman
doesn’t know about chilling out. Steve Norman says “I am very excited to
be working on this project. I can think of no better combination of
having a good time and helping to save the world. It rocks my boat. We
now know that we have to make changes if we’re to make our planet a
better place to live in and secure a safer future for our children. But
how many of us actually make those changes? Club4Climate helps us to
focus on green issues whilst having fun doing it. Being a soulman and
the occassional clubber, I can’t think of a better way. I’m very happy
to be involved.”
Spandau Ballet emerged from London’s underground fashion and club scene
of the late 70’s, they pioneered styles of electronic dance music and
white funk. They had worldwide commercial success with the blue eyed
soul album True. They had 20 hit singles and spent a 500 weeks in the UK
charts, selling 20 million albums worldwide.
A better car ...
Is what we drive now as good as it gets? Check out the two-minute cartoon at http://www.bettah.org
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