Posts from — May 2008

You can get a reduction on your busfare in Scotland if you hand over your cooking oil to a recycling plant making biofuels. Stagecoach, Scotland’s largest transport company, booked so much success with this green scheme in the past six months, it’s now embarking on a drive to become completely carbon neutral by the end of this year.

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Ontario high school junior Daniel Burd wanted to try to figure out if there was a way to get plastic bags to decompose faster. As it stands, it takes thousands of years for the wasteful objects to disintegrate. But by using bacteria, he figured out how to make it happen in a mere three months.

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To a lot of people in China it seems that the world is turning against them. Over the recent months they have heard non-stop criticism of their country and witnessed global “anti-China” demonstrations.

But, whatever we think about the Chinese Government’s appalling Human Rights record, it is now time to show our solidarity with the people.

To date, it is estimated that over 50,000 people died in the earthquake that devastated China’s Sichuan province. Millions more are homeless. Please join with Avaaz and light a virtual candle to send a message to the people of China telling them that the world shares their grief and stands with them in the urgent work of caring for survivors.

Light a Candle

A 3.5 mile handshake for peace

At the end of his teachings at the Royal Albert Hall the Dalai Lama started off a 2,000 people handshake that wound its way around the edge of Hyde Park, under Marble Arch, across Oxford St and finished at the Chinese Embassy where the 1.67 million global petition asking for meaningful dialogue between China and Tibet was handed in.

Thanks to Avaaz for making this happen. – Here’s the vid.

Give Peace a Hand

“Ghost nets” are so called because they drift in the ocean after being abandoned or dumped and some have been found to be still catching fish and ensnaring other marine life for up to three years. The fish are caught and die in the nets. The effect has been devastating with stocks of deepwater sharks falling to about 20 percent of original

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Between a quarter and a third of the world’s wildlife has been lost since 1970, according to the Zoological Society of London. Populations of land-based species fell by 25%, marine by 28% and freshwater by 29%. Humans are wiping out about 1% of all other species every year in one of the “great extinction episodes” in Earth’s history.

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Why do we let our governments do this?

Developed by an inventor named Doug Selsam, the new turbines have rotors just 14-18 inches in diameter, but can produce 200 watts in a 20MPH wind, and much more than that at higher wind speeds. The trick is using high-strength carbon-fiber materials.

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The future of our seas has never been more precarious. Ninety years of industrial-scale overfishing has brought us to the brink of an ecological catastrophe and deprived millions of their livelihoods.
If you eat fish PLEASE read this article

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