This weekend, Saturday, March 28th 8:30pm is Earth Hour. Switch off your lights! How are you going to celebrate it? There are events going on around the world with 83 countries particating. We’ll probably light the candles and hang out – nothing big. Several local places are having specials such as Uncommon Ground in Chicago which is having candle-lit festivities on it’s rooftop garden.
Anyway you celebrate, VOTE EARTH and help reach the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights for 1hr on Saturday night.
BTW – you don’t have to wait until 2010 to celebrate Earth Hour again – you can do it anytime you wish.
Why is the Honday Clarity the most important car of the future? Because it looks and feels exactly like the car of today. – Top Gear
A friend sent me this video from the UK show Top Gear. A lot has been written about the Honda FCX Clarity, so I’m not going to add much other than to watch the video. This car runs on a hyrdrogen fuel cell – it’s a self-generating electricity station on board your vehicle. Hydrogren is the most abundant resource on the planet – why not fuel our cars with it rather than petrol?
Lately I’ve been watching a lot of TED Conference videos – hoping more 2009 videos will come out. As I keep checking back, I keep finding more that I like. They’re quite addictive. The best part is that you can add them like a podcast right to iTunes and voila, they’re on your iPod/iPhone/iTouch, etc…or you can download them and put them on any other device. They even have a section called “A Greener Future?” that contains a lot of eco-videos. Keep checking back because they’re putting new videos from this years TED Conference up all the time. I’m waiting for Ray Anderson of Interface Carpet’s talk. He’s a visionary and a great speaker.
So what are my favorites? Here ya go
Charles Moore discussing the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”
Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an endless floating waste of plastic trash. Now he’s drawing attention to the growing, choking problem of plastic debris in our seas.
Michael Pollan on the Omnivore’s Next Dilemma What if human consciousness isn’t the end-all and be-all of Darwinism? What if we are all just pawns in corn’s clever strategy game to rule the Earth? Author Michael Pollan asks us to see the world from a plant’s-eye view.
Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat In this fiery and funny talk, New York Times food writer Mark Bittman weighs in on what’s wrong with the way we eat now (too much meat, too few plants; too much fast food, too little home cooking), and why it’s putting the entire planet at risk.
Andy Hobsbawm on how to Do The Green Thing
I’ve met Andy on a few occasions – whether he remembers or not. His main gig is being European Chairman of Agency.com where I spent 8 years in the Chicago office. Of couse I found out about his green passion just as I was leaving the company. He lanched a site called Do The Green Thing in late 2007.
A few non-green TED Talks to check out:
Evan Williams founder of Twitter
Keep hearing about Twitter and don’t know what it is or what the point is? Watch this 7min video and get addicted…then follow us @screamtobegreen
Mike Rowe of Dirty Job’s
Mike Rowe, the host of “Dirty Jobs,” tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature of hard work, and how it’s been unjustifiably degraded in society today.
