Positive proof of global warming

I thought this is quite a sight.

Grizzly Cam

For those of you who have seen Grizzly Man, you can now undertake a virutal safari and join Spirit and Mr Chocolate and their friends up in Alaska.

See if you can spot the stolen baseball cap!

Spiiiriiiiit!!!!


http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/wildcamgrizzlies/index.html

No more wasting your time

Now from the authors of Cradle-to-Cradle, the book everyone should read - C2C greeting cards. They are made from environmentally friendly plastic, and come with a return postage paid (USA) envelope so when the recipeint gets the card, they can send it back and the card will be turned into carpeting. Cool! Everyone in North America should do this - how do we feel about sending cards across the ocean to get recycled? Seems a bit optimistic, since it would cost more in jet fuel than the recycling would save. However, stay tuned to the website for new products and ideas from the Cradle-to-Cradle folks.

(Secondary) School Summit on Climate Change

I stumbled into this, albeit a few days late. Its interesting because of how the summit is organized and geared toward teens or young people. I saw Ian Pearson (Climate Change and Environment Officer, DEFRA) speak today. It was very basic, didn't get at (m)any of the tough questions. But he did talk about innovative things the UK is doing, and targets they're setting. The participants have handsets, and every once in a while the talk was interrupted by this MC who sounds like one of the radio jockeys - and the attendees hit a button on their handset which sends their vote to some question to the master computer up front. Very interactive and i wonder why we don't have more of this kind of thing? How can we have super cool tricked out technology for a meeting, when the UN can't even make websites (like this , this, and this) that are friendly to look at and actually work? Anyway, it was inspiring to see that maybe young generations will grow up hearing about climate change and living life in a different way - just like many of us did when we first started hearing about recycling and Earth Day back in the USA.

Check out the UK government's flashy cool site on what they're doing about climate change, and read about the Climate Champions who will be raising awareness in their regions with support from DEFRA.

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New Mouse Lemurs discovered

Microcebus mittermeieri is one of three newly announced mouse lemur species found on Madagascar. The name has a slight CI-sponsored name to it.....

Invasive Species blog

Check out this guy's blog titled Invasive Species blog: http://invasivespecies.blogspot.com/2004_01_04_invasivespecies_archive.html
Caroline would find it quite useful.