Carnival of the Green #70 March 25, 2007
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Environment , 2 commentsWelcome to the 70th Carnival of the Green. Last week we were over at The Good Life and next week, on Sludgie. If you’d like to know more about the Carnival, how to host, and how to post, Treehugger explains all. There are a fair few posts this week, so go get a cup of coffee, sit back, and enjoy the ride!
This week you can read about what’s really going on in Africa, as the struggle for diminishing natural resources heats up. The post on Veggie Revolution describes the plight of the Dyeratu family, a Malawi family with few options.
The Greener Magazine talks about the Ecology Center’s Consumer Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Cars, turns out gas prices are not the only ‘gas’ issue you may have to consider when buying a new car.
From Triplepundit, we have a lengthy but interesting piece on the impact of conservation strategies such as buying land to save it for conservation purposes on local people and economies, and questions whether these practices will actually deliver their stated aims, or whether they simply displace the problem elsewhere.
Jeremy Bruno presents Climate Crisis Action Day: Part I posted at The Voltage Gate.
Luigi Guarino presents Mapping underutilized genomes posted at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog.
Welcome back to MaryEllen of The Blue Voice, who has been rather quiet for a while, with some personal musings on World Water Day, 2007, water conservation in general, and some helpful web links on the subject.
At The Wild Green Yonder, Adam Brock summarizes current trends in the exploding urban agriculture movement, and extrapolates a future where agriculture is woven into the urban fabric.
Silicon Valley Blogger presents How Much Credit Have You Turned Down? Maybe Half A Million Dollars Worth posted at The Digerati Life.
The Evanagelical Ecologist and his son waded in the headwaters of the Old Testament book of Exodus this week, and read the account of Moses and the plagues, and were struck by how tightly the fate of creation is bound to the fates of Egypt and Israel and the decisions of God and Pharaoh. Why, for instance, would God not only kill the firstborn of the Egyptians, but their firstborn camels too?
Niki Anders presents The truth about our global climate posted at The-A-TEAM.
Paul Michael presents An energy bill of $0.00 posted at Wisebread Frugal.
john presents Blogs for Global Temperature Denial posted at hell’s handmaiden.
Eric presents Practical Reasons to Eat Less Meat posted at saving simply.
Train conventions March 3, 2007
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Miscellany , add a commentThe train out of Euston was silent all the way to Birmingham, apart from the noise of the rails and the intermittent playstation whistle at a frequency guaranteed to annoy. London trains always are, unless someone’s disregarding the unwritten rules and having a loud conversation with their travelling companion, present or a mobile call away. The unwritten taboo on casual conversation with a stranger is always upheld.
Change at Birmingham New St for the local train to Lichfield, and the world changes too. An extended conversation with the woman across the aisle about which way the train will go, utter ignorance of West Midlands geography on my part no barrier, a couple of old blokes start talking about the silicon in fuel scandal that’s upsetting fuel injection systems nationwide and half the carriage joins in the general consensus that cars you can’t fix yourself are no good. A family of five get off at Lichfield City, telling everyone that they’ve never been further up the line to the wilds of Lichfield Trent Valley. I wonder what I’m letting myself in for.
The cabbie from the station chats throughout the journey. He’s not from here, but from a village 20 miles away. Not a village anymore, but a town of 30,000. He tells me I don’t need to go to the spa, beause I don’t need beauty treatments, and he loves me. He’s also told his next fare he loves (I assume) her. All in that gentle, non-threatening way blokes in the North have about them. It’s rather lovely.
