An Inconvenient Truth

I recently had a chance to watch Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth and I think that everyone should watch it regardless whether you are a "science" person or not.

As a science person, the facts were good, and the explanations clear.

As a non-science person, I think that Al Gore does a great job of making the climate crisis tangible and understandable AND he still manages to be interesting.

I was browsing the site and found a cool pledge to see the video widget and thought I'd throw one on my blog. Do you see it in the sidebar on the left? Click the widget and see the movie - it's good stuff, regardless whether it is a review or completley new for you.

kudo's to my brother

I keep forgetting to send the proper recognition my little brother's way. He recently spent some serious time re-modelling our fireplace, which used to be an atrocious pile of nasty painted tiles.

NOW, as you can see, due to my brother's brick-laying skills, the fireplace looks AWESOME!


Our kittie's are always cute too.
Thanks - you kick ass!

ps. if you are wondering, he is also going to do the mantle, as soon as we buy some brick without the texture so it can lay flat. He did such a great job, the old crappy mantle fit right back over the top - it looks infinitely better than it used to.

wine = more garbage?

Ok the truth is, I don't have more time to browse, but I did get a new computer complete with Google Desktop. My old computer would have laughed at me if I tried to run something like google desktop at the same as anything else, but this new dell can handle it.

I particularly like the "web clips" which allows me to get a brief synopsis of a multitude of articles, thus allowing me to read the ones of interest, like the one below.

It seems that Australian's have come up with an innovative way to sell wine - with an acrylic glass attached to the bottle. This would of course be amazing if the point was to encourage people to re-use glasses at a party rather than use disposable
cups, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the message attached to this particular acrylic cup. Instead, there is hope that this will allow customers to be served with more expedience and efficiency.

Hmmm, I'm not entirely convinced and neither are the people at Treehugger which is where I found the original article.

new links - CLICK THEM!

I had a friend send me some very cool enviro-links.

I really like this website, lots of pictures, little information blurbs and overall a very user friendly site.  I particularly liked the green gift giving guide for the holiday season.
http://www.inhabitat.com/ 
 

This site has a lot more reading and lot less pictures, but since I don't mind reading so much I don't mind this site so much. :)
  http://www.lazyenvironmentalist.com/ 

 

This site "Connecting Environmental Professionals" is for a local group (there are also groups in Toronto, Calgary & Edmonton) that has monthly meetings/gatherings for networking purposes and also has an excellent job posting listserv.

http://www.yepcanada.ca/vancouver.htm

That's all for now.  I've been sick and haven't had much time to think let alone write and blog...but C'est La Vie!

 

Did you click them?  What did you think? I dream that one day people will leave me a comment...