The goliath tigerfish (Hydrocynus goliath) was thought by some to be a myth and by others to be extinct. Not any more. A 45kg tigerfish has been caught and caught for a British TV program called “River Monsters“. River Monsters is a TV program that examines myths of unknown creatures attacking people. The Goliath tigerfish […]
Dig toilets not graves – remote controlled poo
When you watch this video keep in mind it’s being done by a charity and not a TV prank show. Okay; it’s a PR stunt but isn’t that okay? WaterAid want to highlight an important issue – billions of people around the world don’t even have access to a toilet. If that doesn’t allow them […]
Polar Bear hugs – the Nissan Leaf
Okay, this is an ad for Nissan and it’s also shameless greenwashing… but I still like it. The ad comes out from Nissan USA too. The polar bear is cute. The ad, despite the greenwashing, still keeps important climate matters front of mind.
Growing Strawberries in a Stella McCartney handbag
Here’s a funky video from cafedirect. They’ve team up rocket gardens to show people how easy it is to grow fruit and veg at home. I rather like the look of the rocket gardens website. Checking down at the bottom of the page I can see it’s part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for […]
Colourful Lives: Lizzie Gillett
10:10 is an organisataion that works with companies, schools and people to get them to reduce their carbon emissions by 10%. I can’t quite untangle the people involved as the 10:10 website says it was founded by Franny Amstrong who was the director of the climate change blockbuster The Age of Stupid. They also work […]
David’s bee beard
Here’s a good idea. The population of honey bees is dropping dangerously low so someone needs to petition governments to do something about it – even if that something is just investigating why this is happening. No one knows. It’s a mystery. A website called Cameron’s Bee Beard has just been set up to let […]
Google signs green Power Purchase Agreement
Image by Conor Dupre-Neary via Flickr Today has some good news for Mother Earth. Google, the search and ads site, has been trying to be carbon neutral since 2007. Today they’ve signed a big deal – a 20-year deal, in fact – on green Power Purchasing. Come July 30th they’ll be buying clean energy from […]
Destroying 7 million tons of glacier – and bragging about it
The current chairman of Current TV is a cool dude. He also happens to be the former President of the United States of American. Al Glore has blogged about ( Huffington Post resurfaced it ) an old advert that Humble Oil ran in 1962. It says; Each day Humble supplies enough energy to melt 7 million tons […]
Selling your old o2 mobile phone
I’ve had a quick look into which of the mobile operators let you sell your phone back to them. Turns out o2 have the lead in this area and operate o2 Recycle. Now, o2 was the first network in the UK to be allowed to sell Apple’s famous iPhone. A glance at the site suggests […]
21 cute pictures for International Biological Diversity Day
The 22 of May is the International Day for Biological Diversity (aka IDB). It’s supported and promoted by The United Nations. The theme for the 2010 International Biological Diversity Day is “Biodiversity, Development and Poverty Alleviation” and we would like to support that by sharing 21 animal pictures. In Pure Spirit’s IDB suggested mascot International […]
