Cheatneutral is about offsetting infidelity. We’re the only people doing it, and Cheatneutral is a joke.

Carbon offsetting is about paying for the right to carry on emitting carbon. The Carbon offset industry sold £60 million of offsets last year, and is rapidly growing. Carbon offsetting is also a joke.

Loyal and faithful? Are you a cheater? What is cheat offsetting? Find the answers at www.cheatneutral.com

Haha! :D

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© Evening Standard

LONDON’S abandoned petrol stations are to be converted to charge electric cars, it was revealed today.

An American firm is planning to transform dozens of empty stations. They will have airport-style waiting lounges where drivers can buy food or coffee.

Evoasis is setting up the first electric-car garage in Grovesnor Road, Pimlico, where up to 12 bays with high-power outlets will be able to recharge a battery in about 20 minutes.

A further five stations will be established by the end of the year.

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Maybe it’s finally time for a driver’s licence. Good timing, Max! ;) When is Berlin coming?

Another green initiative: www.thebigask.eu

“It’s an animated short of four minutes duration that makes us see small things in a larger context. It makes one aware of the fact, that decisions we make may have a much broader effect than originally anticipated – due to the extreme complexity of interconnections in our world.

Sure we do! He’re you go:

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/3309145[/vimeo]

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The world is heading for an “ecological credit crunch” far worse than the current financial crisis because humans are over-using the natural resources of the planet, an international study warns today.

The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% more resources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading to deforestation, degraded soils, polluted air and water, and dramatic declines in numbers of fish and other species. … (whole article)

And then we have the ‘Oil Crunch’, same day:

…The report, from the Peak Oil group, warns that the problem of declining availability of oil will hit the UK earlier than generally expected – possibly within the next five years and as early as 2011…

Entitled The Oil Crunch, the report argues that the risk of an early peak in oil production poses a bigger threat to UK society than tightening gas supplies, terrorism or the short-term impacts of climate change. … (whole article)

Plus Climate Change:

Manmade global warming evident on every continent, polar report finds (whole article)

You know that it’ll get worse. If it not already is, I mean, this is what they let us know about. And they keep on proofing what people already sense, right?

So here is some constructive input,

‘mapping the cultural implications of peak oil and climate change’

- since the Guardian might leave you a bit overwhelmed…: www.futurescenarios.org by David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept, put online in may 2008.

Erdbeerjoghurt 150g ist ein zeitbasiertes Kunstprojekt, von Jekaterina Anzupowa, Performancekünstlerin aus Berlin, das aus zwei Reisen besteht.

Die Reiseroute ist jeweils ein Nachvollziehen der Transportwege der einzelnen Zutaten eines handelsüblichen Erdbeerjoghurts.

Die erste Reise basiert auf den Daten aus einer Studie von Dr. Stefanie Böge aus dem Jahr 1992 und deckt grob gesehen das Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ab.

Die zweite Reise orientiert sich an Daten aus dem Jahr 2008 und wird weltumspannend sein…..

Nice one! :)

via.

“Let’s just stop right there. Sometimes something is so charming and clever that we need a minute to sit down and take a breath. Come on…how great is this Greenhouse?!” Apartment Therapy

Word! Nice work by Jantze Brogård Asshof – a bitter-sweet combination of slick design with a flavour of sarcasm to-the-point. We like!

via: TheJunction

They are aware and that’s why we like them! Wonder when others dealing with masses of people search for alternatives…

This is from their website, entry of the 2nd of may (www.radiohead.com)

Radiohead take to the road on Monday (via a plane, unfortunately) to start in Florida with the first show of their 2008 tour.
Following on from their posting on the 19th December and the commissioned report (pdf on the site) on touring and CO2 generation, we’ve developed a new section of the site that gig goers can visit: the most gigantic flying mouth for some time.
Here you can try out our carbon calculator and compare different transport methods for getting to and from the venue. The list of tour dates will give you public transport information where available, and where not, there may be venue incentives for car sharing. There will also be weekly postings from Radiohead’s production team on how the band has addressed their own touring carbon footprint and made it easier for fans to reduce theirs. You can discuss our successes and more importantly, our failings at waste-central, post up more local travel information where we haven’t and make friends with other people going to your show.
Hopefully see you on the tour!

I also found a quote of an ‘Wired’ – interview with Thom Yorke:

“At the moment we make money principally from touring. Which is hard for me to reconcile because I don’t like all the energy consumption, the travel. It’s an ecological disaster, traveling and touring… We did one of those carbon footprint things recently where they assessed the last period of touring we did and tried to work out where the biggest problems were. And it was obviously everybody traveling to the shows…
“Especially in the US. Everybody drives. So how the hell are we going to address that? The idea is that we play in municipal places with some transport system alternative to cars. And minimizing flying equipment, shipping everything. We can’t be shipped though.”

They are in Berlin on July 8th. We’ll bike there, I guess…
Find the songs of their new album here.