An easy pickup March 28, 2006
Some 11 million tonnes of household and business waste is disposed of via landfill sites in the UK alone every year. I shudder to think what the amount must be worldwide.
All this decomposing waste produces something like a third of the methane emissions contributing to climate change annually.
I’m always amazed at how many people still drop empty drink cartons, sandwich wrappers and other bits of rubbish as they walk along the street.
If we picked up just one piece of street rubbish a day, then literally millions of pieces of rubbish would disappear from our streets each and every …
Power of the pen
One of the easiest ways to support the planet is to sign the petitions and campaigns of others who are trying. By saying and doing nothing we are effectively condoning what is happening all around us.
What sort of world do we really want?
Sign petitions. They will even supply the pen.
Al - ZooZoo2
On standby
I read in one of the papers over the weekend that your humble TV uses as much power during the course of 20 hours on standby than it does during 4 hours of viewing. So turn it off when your not watching it.
Better still don’t watch the TV at all and get a life.
Al - zoozoo2
Reef encounters
Like many natural wonders that have caught the attention of global tourism, the sea-floor and in particular the coral reefs suffer from too much interest. As well meaning tourists and water-sports enthusiasts, we descend in our thousands if not millions on and into the world’s tropical and coastal waters. Unfortunately the damage we leave behind is becoming all too obvious. Marine life, and the sea on which we depend, surf and swim, is under threat from pollution, tourism, over-fishing and other damaging activities.
Corals and coral reefs are extremely sensitive, just walking on a reef can damage fragile coral that can …
What’s the story?
The other day I was digging through my old t-shirts for something clean to wear. I don’t know about you but every t-shirt I have ever worn seems to have a story to tell, a small piece of my past sealed within its very fabric. I ended up sitting there for ages remembering this and that. It was like looking at an old photo album.
Some were happy stories, about holidays I had been on and people I had met. Others brought back embarrassing occasions and times I would much rather forget, but they were all memorable. T-shirts are like …
Going green
The subject of global warming is a hot topic and is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.
It’s still good old corporate greed that rides the global surfwear and ski wear market. This will only change I suspect when there is real money to be made in going green. Sustainable production methods and fair trade practices are where businesses should be putting their profits.
Al - zoozoo2
The sun is shining
First light
First wave
First to the cafe for breakfast
Listen to Jack Johnson on the mp3
I wish
Al
Baby waves
I know you would rather be out on your board and so would we, but this is important. It only takes one, then another one to follow that one, then before you know you have million or even a billion people who not only care about our environment but are doing something about it . If it sounds naive think again. I think the ‘BlackEyed Peas’ wrote some lyrics similar to that. Good band by the way.
Conserve water in your daily life. That’s an easy one
Pick up trash, participate in trash clean-up days just do it automatically you don’t have …
Just be very…
I heard this somewhere the other week. Can’t remember where. It was to do with starting up in business I think. I just like it.
Be very cool
Be very new
Be very newsworthy
Be very important
Be very useful
Just be very
Al - zoozoo2
We have no excuse for ignoring it
We can see like everyone else the ever increasing warning signs around the globe of the damage we are doing to our planet. devastating deforestation and the spread of corporate and consumer pollution. We can all see our planet under attack from reduced fish stocks, some species dissapearing altogether.
Global warming, the silting up of rivers, the stripping of tropical forests, acid rain, the retreating ice caps are brought to our attention everyday via the newspapers, TV and internet. We have no excuse for ignoring it, but many will.
Al - ZooZoo2