Blog Action Day 2007 a huge success

Spending the last few weeks just focussing on getting my business going has caused me to neglect my environmental and sustainability focus for a while. Even though I had writing a Blog Action Day post on my calendar I just never got around to it so I thought the least i could do is report [...]

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Live Earth 07 07 07 – If politics won’t save the planet maybe entertainment will

On 07 July 2007 the world will witness another attempt to wake it up from the state of slumber it has fallen in with respect to environmental issues. Sponsored by many multi-billion dollar companies around the world and bring together more than 100 internationally recognized artists from a wide spectrum of genre will unite an [...]

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Our frightening future requires urgent action

When I arrive home after a stressful day at the office I like to put my feet up for an hour or so and watch something on the tele as many people do. Two nights in a row my viewing choices were environmentally focussed. I started with “An Inconvenient Truth”, a documentary/presentation style movie by [...]

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A lesson in appreciation – Water is better than gold

Life in Cairo has many twists and turns to it and no two days are quite the same. Since yesterday we have had no water in our building. In fact a few square kilometers of Cairo has no water and I have no idea why. Cairo being the place that it is word travels fast [...]

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One Laptop for every child

One of the very promising projects out there aimed at growing a brighter future for children worldwide is the “One Laptop” project. �It’s an education project, not a laptop project.� � Nicholas Negroponte Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. The project’s origins go back [...]

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The 3 Bulls and the Lion

There is a legend about a lion and three bulls who were in the jungle. One of them was white, one was yellow, and one was black. The lion was not able to eat these three bulls because if he came near them, they would all stand up together, and each one of them would [...]

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Village Earth Appropriate Technology – DIY sustainable villages

I’m surprised I didn’t stumble across this valuable resource sooner. I’ve been considering setting in motion a plan to move out of the city and establish a sustainable village out in the country side somewhere. Myself and a friend have since started debating how we need to start appraching this idea and some of the [...]

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A culture of littering

Yesterday at around 8am I was sitting in the morning traffic still coming to my sense when the driver in front of me tossed his empty yogurt container out of the window onto the grassy island between the 2 lanes. This was enough to wake me out of my half sleep state and send an [...]

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