I’m nervously following the news on Burma on the net, amazed at the profound bravery of unarmed protesters on the other side of the world - in particular the Buddhist monks who have led the country’s rebellion…
Eco-Worrier puts me in mind of Thurber’s grandmother who “lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house,” and went round placing electric plugs in empty sockets…
I was shocked and saddened to hear, last night, of the death of Anita Roddick. She was such a fantastic inspiration, and pretty much single-handedly redefined the area of business ethics here in the UK.
This is the kind of story that appeals to the short-trousered boy in me.
A solar-powered plane has just broken the record for solar-powered flight, albeit unofficially, staying aloft for 54 hours.
The fundamental problem with biofuels is already making an impact.
The Soil Association issued their annual report at the weekend during their Organic Food Festival in Bristol. Their director of food and farming Helen Browning noted an increasing shortage of organic cereals. She blames it on rising prices for soya, maize and grain created by America’s new hunger for biofuels.
Take a look at these scary/beautiful/wonderful images of our changing planet, taken from space….
Species extinctions are news this week with reports that the Baiji dolphin that lived in the Yangtze River is now, apparently, no longer an inhabitant of planet Earth.
EcoBalls have been a revelation. They remain one of my most solid sellers and are really popular with the people who use them. I use them myself, in fact. But now there’s an alternative…
Laurie David is one of the American eco-movements stars. She co-produced An Inconvenient Truth, runs the influential website stopglobalwarming.org and has worked with dozens of pop stars to help plug the message. She recently toured with over-enthusiastic eco-evangelist Sheryl Crow, whose determination to spread the message resulted in her famous toilet paper “joke”. In the US, Laurie David is - next to Al Gore - the ecology movement’s number two figurehead.
