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Below is an email I sent to the New Zealand Green Building Council as a reaction to their website Green Star NZ & Products/ Materials (http://www.nzgbc.org.nz/main/greenstar/elaboration/prodmaterial).

From The Office Of The Prime Minister’s Science Advisory Committee, Article posted on Thursday, August, 13th, 2009 at 10:04 am The world’s climate is influenced by a number of factors interacting in very complex and not entirely understood ways. Over the last million years there…

17/09/2009 by NZPA via stuff.co.nz Both Prime Minister John Key and dairy giant Fonterra are turning a deaf ear to Greenpeace activists’ demands following yesterday’s dramatic protest off the Port of Tauranga. Up to 14 Greenpeace protesters boarded the Hong Kong-registered freighter East Ambition, lashing…

I found an interesting article about web 2.0 realtime applications: http://earth2tech.com/2009/04/15/twitters-an-energy-guzzler-other-hard-truths-for-web-20-app-addicts/ “web applications that involve constant updates and real-time information — such as many of those on the Twitter platform and especially those supported for mobile — are like the Hummers of web apps, guzzling…

This is an email I sent to Pumpkin Patch today, triggered by the arrival of one of their plastic wrapped catalogues today. Despite the fact that we receive online emails and news from them:

This is an email that I sent to AGM Online today: Hi.I will return your latest issue of “landscape” to you. I will no longer accept newspapers and magazines wrapped in plastic foil. For decades magazines were delivered with just a sticker on the back,…

Recently, I had a read through EGE’s website. Actually a quite good and informative site. EGE is a dutch carpet manufacturer.Since I had a couple of questions in terms of sustainability (sure I had), I contacted the local sales representative and put my questions forward.…

HOME is an incredible movie explaining the life on earth, how it started, how everything is interlinked and which part we, humans, play. A movie with the most stunning images showing the beauty of the world, the animals and the human habitat. The sad part…

HOME is an incredible movie explaining the life on earth, how it started, how everything is interlinked and which part we, humans, play. We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the…

The Age of Stupid is the new movie from Director Franny Armstrong (McLibel) and producer John Battsek (One Day In September). Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why…