This is an absolutely phenomenal talk by Benjamin Zander on TED entitled ‘Classical music with shining eyes’ but it is about so much more than classical music. Go ahead and watch it now, it is 18 minutes that will pay for itself many times over.
I see a striking parallel between the situation of classical music […]

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After even a cursory examination of peak oil and climate change one thing becomes very obvious - a lot of change is coming whether we like it or not and a lot of change is required to minimize the pain of the transition.
Change is happening in our society but it is painfully slow - our […]

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I recently saw Amazing Grace, it was about the abolition of slavery in the UK. Like Amistad it left me feeling sick in the stomach. How could people profit from such misery? How could generation after generation be complicit in such an abhorrent institution? How is it possible that when La Amistad reached US soil […]

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For a long time my biggest impression of Greenpeace was of annoying volunteers in the streets trying to get me to fill in a monthly automatic payment form. Sure I agreed with the principles and ideals of the organisation but those pushy fund raisers still bugged me. This evening I took the time out to […]

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Anyone else been looking for news that’s you know, real? - www.therealnews.com

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If you start to look closely at the state of this planet it quickly becomes obvious that the course our society is steering is heading towards a very rough landing. The world is rife with poverty, disease, misery and violence. The rich countries grew rich by exploiting whatever and whomever they could. Our environmental record […]

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The EECA Biofuels conference have gone and put summaries from their talks online at http://futurefuels.co.nz/Home/. Definitely worth checking out if you’re like me and hanging out for the day electric cars finally hit the market.

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World Changing have a fascinating article on recent tests of aviation bio fuel. Currently air travel contributes 2-4% of the world’s global warming emissions and the technologies in the pipeline should becoming online in the next 10 years with emission cuts of around 50%.
There are a few major drivers for this - petroleum is […]

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People of the world have come together many times in the past, most notably for sporting spectacles such as the Olympics or the World Cup. In 32 days something special is going to happen, people of the world are going to come together not to compete against each other - but to meet each other. […]

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I just spent the last hour trawling through you tube watching Barack Obama speeches and interviews - it really felt like a light could be at the end of the political tunnel for the USA. Yeah it’s all very orchestrated and his references to JFK and Martin Luther King aren’t too subtle but I guess […]

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