I just can’t get the tune of this great little video teaser out of my head. Created by Sarita Mehra, a videographer extraordinaire based in the UAE with production experience for most of the movies filmed here including soon-to-be released Mission: Impossible 4 (Ghost Protocol), she made this video for thecarboncult.com. And I’m thrilled! Take [...]
Dubai is synching up with the rest of the world for 24 hours to talk about climate change denial and raise more awareness tonight. In this case, in Arabic. As part of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 23 different presenters from around the world are going to present scientific data and research that explains why [...]
Environmentalists can be pretty scary – not just with their cardigans and jars of boiled fruits but with their poignant observations of the state of the planet, the doom and gloom and what not. It’s enough to turn anyone off. I came across this link though a TED talk by Adam Ostrow on the future of [...]
This is one of the most original concepts I have come across in a long time. Not so much environmental in the ecological sense, but geographical none the less. Conflict Kitchen in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (US) is a take-away restaurant that only serves food from countries that the United States is in conflict with. Iran, North [...]
After doing a double-take I realised that these ‘shark fin sandals’ are not actually made of shark fin but have a fin design to the front and heel. I wonder if anyone that buys them will actually know how detrimental to the species shark finning is – all for a soup. And who knows why [...]
www.thecarboncult.com is now offsetting some carbon. I signed up the site with the 350 challenge. For every blogger that signs up and posts the nifty badge there on the right Brighterplanet.com will offset 350 pounds (158kgs) of CO2 in my name. Or yours if you sign up too. Apparently ‘that’s like flicking off 100 light [...]
A mammoth collection of more than 201,000 camera-trap photos of some endangered and wild species are now available online to enthral and hopefully incite habitat conservation and wildlife protection. The Smithsonian WILD! Website has been put together to showcase some of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and [...]
An ex-colleague of mine has come up with a brilliant new super-hero based on, I’m guessing, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year. Currently in Spain freelancing, Danesh Mohiuddin, an illustrator and graphic artist entered a competition by Marvel Comics to create a superhero character. Danesh’s character is Spill, an [...]
Illegal trade in wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn must be treated as a serious crime in order to end the devastating poaching of protected species, the head of UN wildlife trade regulator CITES said last week. “This is serious crime, and you need serious resources and serious penalties” to address it, said CITES [...]
South African authorities have been rounding up thousands of escaped crocodiles since Friday after floods gave them an escape route from a crocodile farm. Authorities attempted to reassure the public everything was under control. “A large number” of 15,000 reptiles at the Rakwena Crocodile Farm in the far north of the country had escaped last Sunday [...]
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world’s largest tropical forest, the environment ministry announced Friday. The planned tree census, set to take four years, “will allow us to have a broad panorama of the quality and the conditions in [...]
Recycling entrepreneur Tom Szaky is stubbing out the world’s cigarette problem — one butt at a time. The 30-year-old who dropped out of Princeton University to start his innovative company TerraCycle in Trenton, New Jersey, says there’s no such thing as trash, even when you’re talking about the contents of ashtrays. In a program started [...]
