from tiny tadpoles..

zim bling

following London's lead, Sydney restaurants are now offering water menus off which diners can 'explore mineral contents and carbonations' while being steered towards appropriate accompanying dishes. prices range from $20 to $100 litre. water, according to a Guardian columnist, is on its way from commodity to product. and we are on our way to hell..

so you don't look like long nosed tourist..

latest fashion advice from Beijing..
not really an eco issue, but mad nonetheless.
and really there's not much that's not environmentally relative in China 2008..

life, liberty, and the pursuit of...

over just a few years, the coal industry has blown up 470 mountains in Appalachia. thousands of blasts each day flatten the landscape, removing what the industry terms 'overburden'. rubble is then dumped into valleys - 7000 so far - contaminating forest and rivers. and this is in an area people can see the damage...
Daniel Boone Parkway has been renamed after a coal magnate.

in the blink of an eye

March 2008, Canada with much restraint set its annual seal cull quota to 275.000.
in a further oh so humane move, they told the men with clubs that they were required to make sure the animals were dead before skinning them. as long as the seal blinked, it was still alive..

nappy happy

Texas T

someone has actually calculated the amount of oil that could be gleaned - pressed? - from a Tyrannosaurus Rex. allowing that an average T-Rex weighs 6000kg of which 18% is carbon, the benefit would be 1100kg which translates to 11 barrels of oil (US$1540 today). a steal..