Hospitality for Climate activists in Mexico: NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in Cancun, Mexico.
For all climate activists heading to Mexico
July 8th, 2010Thank you T4 Jameela Jamil
July 6th, 2010
Tree-Bag is branching out
June 24th, 2010Our bag which Loft Design By helped us create is being carried around by Joanna Lumley, David Gundy, Eliza Doolittle and Roxanne Tataei - Hands Up for the Earth!
visit the Loft design by store on Marylebone High Street & Westbourne Grove to support us or else call 020 7221 5666 to order over the phone’
Here comes the Sun
June 16th, 2010
Roofs, yes. But PV or not PV – that’s the question
Secret files on solar energy collaborator, Part 1: Dave Hampton
EVIDENCE
9-panel, 1.66KWpeak, photovoltaic (PV) solar panel installation
LOCATION
on the Carbon Coach’s home in Marlow, Bucks
COST
£10,000 all inc
SUPPLIER
Freesource, Good Energy’s chosen renewable energy installation partner
ACCOMPLICES
Transition Town Marlow 100 Solar Panel project:http://www.transitionmarlow.org/index.php?p=1_2_Solar
The low-carbon detectives are on my trail. Here’s my review of the installation.
I am delighted to report that my PV panels are up, on the roof, and generating much clean raw power, plus useful cash. The panels are of course being very closely watched and monitored, by me, and by my friends and Marlow neighbours.
They make me feel deeply and inordinately happy. I get waves of pleasure just to see my powerful panels and to witness their production of sustainable energy.
They look good, feel good, are in good taste, and, by golly, they do you good!
Loft Design By
June 10th, 2010
The French fashion outfit - Loft Design By - is becoming part of the Restore the Earth community. Hands up for the Earth - and a big thanks for keeping the dream to restore the Earth unbroken.
Falling into the hands of anger
May 26th, 2010Recently the-alluring-thunderbolt-feeling of anger has grown within. A feeling exasperated by the difficulty and hardship in fundraising and running an ecological restoration Charity. The case is clear - habitat degradation is turning the UK into an ecological desert. Statistics tell some of the story: the UK has lost 12% of its land mammals, 22% of amphibians and 24% of all the butterfly species (source: Lost Life: England’s lost and threatened Species). Most of the degradation that has taken place has been unnecessary - the case is clear for the cure: to embark on a restoration programme, nationwide - now.
Our experience tells us that schools can play a key role in any plan to restore biodiversity in this country and can do this in both an inspiring and cost effective way. With schools cooperating and working together a realistic national programme can be established to address habitat destruction head on.
The “green” issues we hear more about today, are what I would call the grey - solar panels and windfarms - its all very sweet; but the environment should not stray too far from green to grey, it also needs to focus on its origins; James Lovelock when interviewed on BBC said how it is Life that created the atmosphere, the future of our planet and its life carrying capacity, will depend on how we can live with nature, being mutually inclusive, with our urban designs. Active restoration and gardening into nature’s mosaics can stem the flow of habitat destruction, it can undo the damage of the past, and lastly open up another vision for the future, which is not only Lady Gaga, parking lots and shopping malls.
Ecosystem destruction is a crime
April 15th, 2010Most endangered species
April 9th, 2010Ten of the most endangered species in the world (source http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/08/barometer-of-life):
Florida bonneted bat - Eumops floridanus was thought to be extinct until 2002, when a small colony was discovered in a North Fort Myers suburb of Florida, US.
Saola – The cow-like Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, which occurs only in the Annamite mountains of Vietnam and Laos is in protracted decline.
Kakapo or owl parrot - In 2008, the total population of this large, flightless nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptila) from New Zealand was 93, including the seven hatched that year.
Golden arrow poison frog – With the chytridiomycosis epidemic spreading from west to east through Panama, populations of Atelopus zeteki are now at severe risk.
Jamaican iguana – There may be no more than a hundred adult Cyclura collei remaining in the wild, and juvenile recruitment appears to be minimal.
Chinese paddlefish - Only two adult specimens of Psephurus gladius (both females) have been recorded since 2002. It is expected there are fewer than 50 adults left in the wild.
Chinese giant salamander - The largest of all amphibian species, sometimes growing to more than 1m long, Andrias davidianus is widespread in southern China, but its range is very fragmented
Sicilian fir - Abies nebrodensis trees are presently limited to the steep, dry slopes of Mt. Scalone in the Madonie Mountains of Sicily.
Sumatran orang-utan - The majority of surviving Pongo abelii live in the province of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.
A seed within
February 16th, 2010Trees and bushes for the Sahel
February 15th, 2010
