When we talk about carbon footprints we think about those forms we fill in online which ask us all kinds of probing questions about our homes, our cars and our activities which impact the planet. William McDonough’s book cradle to cradle discusses the concept of re-thinking how we design things extensively and gives us a […]
Sustainability
Blog Action Day 2007 a huge success
Spending the last few weeks just focussing on getting my business going has caused me to neglect my environmental and sustainability focus for a while. Even though I had writing a Blog Action Day post on my calendar I just never got around to it so I thought the least i could do is report […]
Live Earth 07 07 07 – If politics won’t save the planet maybe entertainment will
On 07 July 2007 the world will witness another attempt to wake it up from the state of slumber it has fallen in with respect to environmental issues. Sponsored by many multi-billion dollar companies around the world and bring together more than 100 internationally recognized artists from a wide spectrum of genre will unite an […]
Our frightening future requires urgent action
When I arrive home after a stressful day at the office I like to put my feet up for an hour or so and watch something on the tele as many people do. Two nights in a row my viewing choices were environmentally focussed. I started with “An Inconvenient Truthâ€, a documentary/presentation style movie by […]
A lesson in appreciation – Water is better than gold
Life in Cairo has many twists and turns to it and no two days are quite the same. Since yesterday we have had no water in our building. In fact a few square kilometers of Cairo has no water and I have no idea why. Cairo being the place that it is word travels fast […]
One Laptop for every child
One of the very promising projects out there aimed at growing a brighter future for children worldwide is the “One Laptop” project. �It’s an education project, not a laptop project.� � Nicholas Negroponte Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves. The project’s origins go back […]