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…a Carbon Cult production….

Nov 01, 2011 2 Comments by

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 [...]

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Dubai streams Climate Reality

Sep 15, 2011 No Comments by

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 [...]

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Ashes to ashes to twitter

Aug 21, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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Conflict-to-go

May 22, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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Fashion to save the Earth: Sold!

Apr 03, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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Why 350?

Mar 24, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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Animals caught on camera-trap

Feb 27, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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Some Spills are good

Feb 12, 2011 No Comments

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 [...]

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