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ironic ad placements

i took part in a panel at the Guardian last week on sustainability and advertising. George Monbiot who was also on the panel writes about it here. I snapped the screen shot above last week, check the headline and then the 4 x 4 advert to the right of the post. surreal.

great wave of trash

i like the idea of climate change/sustainability awareness via a gameshow approach. love to know what they're saying

ray talks good business

founder of interface tells of his journey towards sustainable business. come on business, lets do what ray does.

road witch

Ted Dewan at euroGel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

i've never come across this guy Ted Dewan and his road witch project but this is truely inspiring stuff. i battle daily with car drivers flying down my road with absolutely no sense of awareness that people exist. traffic cutting through residential areas keeps community hidden, its all wrong. the way Ted uses creativity to stimulate awareness and change is awesome. i think i might have a crack at road witch on my road. Check the vid, its long but well worth a watch. via good experience

wasted

lovely animation from age of stupid go see it.

turn off, tune out, unplug - it's earth hour

Earth Hour is happening on Saturday 8.30 pm local time globally – idea is you power down in the darkness for an hour, drink some ale and contemplate our obscene energy use and general carbon heavy lifestyles. Then start to make some changes in your day to day life. It’s all good. Sign up and get involved.

Some people question what's the point of an hour? Well the point is to use the time to reflect on our energy addiction, then try and actually make some conscious effort moving forward to become less dependent and more aware of our ridiculousness around lighting, heating, charging, powering, general energy use and overall consumption madness.
Still not convinced? Go watch age of stupid, that should get you thinking.

Anyway I've been working with Nokia on their energy awareness work and here's another way to get involved around earth hour and beyond. We're trying to get the message out that as we all charge our phones like lunatics, sucking chargers left plugged in everywhere, charging through the night etc etc, we need to nip this madness in the bud. Get some charging discipline and that. So go create your own socket face and pledge some energy goodness.

bedside book stack

bedside book stack, originally uploaded by Dan Solo.

so i was in bed catching up on trusted blogs last night and read this bed book post on dan's blog. So i fired up the E71, (awful camera) and snapped my current selection. A few in progress, a few not really happening. 'Growth fetish' is a fascinating view of an over consumed, unhappy society, still trying to shop its way to happiness. James Lovelock's new book is, well, quite depressing actually. 'Let my people go surfing' from Yvon, the Patagonia dude is awesome. And the Gooner is fanstastic, one eyed reading material, on a saturday night, post match, slightly merry. And the bed books has a flickr group, and its all Mike's idea.

back again.... in a minute

20032009273.jpg, originally uploaded by Dan Solo.

blimey. its been a while. I got a bit caught up in a meltdown of work and stuff, plus raising small folk and I lost the ability and inclination to blog. anything. at all. i've just had no energy for it.
i've continued to twitter. but I'm easing myself back into the blog. love legoland wc signage.

spreading largeness

i know obesity is a big issue (sorry) but i just found this headline really funny. it made me think of this sort of thing heading for Bristol

lo carbon photo shoot

Kyle, Hass & Johnie experiment with a lo-carbon, sustainable approach to the photo shoot