Things I have been sent
Frank Marsland pointed out his new site http://www.organicportal.co.uk/. It is potal for all things organic. Seems almost too much information to me but Frank did point out the typo in the email on the Who am I? page.
I received an email from Jessica concerning SHI which is an organisation that works in Central America helping to restore rainforests and encourage sustainable land use. She also pointed out that Stonyfield are running a ‘Bid with your lid‘ promotion. I would take part but this is a US only thing I think. Stonyfield are selling products in the UK now and you can find out more here. Jessica has asked whether she could do a guest post so you might hear more from her in the future.
Today I received I press release from walkit.com apparently they have reached 1 million kilometres which equates to 10 tonnes of chocolate cake. They have 1 million kilometres of routes available from the site to Londoners only the moment. Each route includes an estimate of how many calories the walker could burn using the route - that’s where the 10 tonnes of chocolate cake comes from. Hopefully more cities will follow soon!
Lastly I received an email from a company called Midori who have create a game called Global Warning. I haven’t actually had a go of it but it seem pretty cheap to buy so it might be worth getting for ‘the kids’?
Whilst what someone can do on a personal level to ameliorate climate change is good, politicians and corporations wield the most power and thus we enter campaiging…
You see, if you campaign, you are in essence doing the most effective climate change action.
In Melbourne (Australia), I face (along with the environmentally minded people) an uphill battle against politicians. However, these issues are unique to Melbourne. One very omnipresent one is against a train operator called Connex. Let me explain.
I am in support of rail as an important climate-change fighter. Transport emissions are the fastest growing and since Australia has the highest emissions per capita - it makes little sense to build roads. And yet we are!
Not only are the government wasting money on entrenching car dependence which thus lowers the liveability of a city (Melbourne used to be the most liveable in the world. Now it’s the 14th), promotes obesity and fuels congestion and climate change; the little money they give to public transport goes straight to the pockets of Connex. Commuting in Melbourne is strenuous as it is unpredictable. Infrequent, unreliable and patronising train operators only make little pathetic gestures as commuters as each year the fares rise. Subsidies for Connex (for doing absolutely nothing) top AUS$500 million per annum. Connex might tout these costs as benefiting commuters, yet somehow has enough money to have a ‘don’t hold others back’ campaign against commuters who block doors (probably because there’s no other room). Anyway, I’ll leave the rest of the explanation to the site below which also includes a petition against Connex which I hope that you will sign, even if you live in the UK. Afterall, wasn’t Connex kicked out of London twice?
www.linkupmelbourne.org.au