Carbon Footprints

Geo-Location of the IP of the sender of the email.
We get a lot of email from the general public here at Carbon Planet and some of it even makes sense. This email is fairly typical and I’d reprint it in full but for the sailor-talk. I am not prude, and find swearing as [...]

In the UK The Times‘ Caitlin Moran has written an hillarious story A plague on all your houses’ hated kitchen gadgets and I couldn’t agree more. One of the biggest drivers of waste, carbon emissions and pollution in general is this drive we seem to have to fill up our houses with crap we [...]

NineMSN is reporting Conserve your toilet paper: Sheryl Crow.
Sheryl Crow is suggesting a bottom-up solution to wipe away global warming: limit each trip to the bathroom to one piece of toilet paper, according to a statement on the rocker’s website.
Crow said she had spent most of an environmental tour of US college campuses thinking of [...]

It’s official! Yahoo! News is reporting that Mock metal group Spinal Tap to reunite to raise awareness of climate change.
The mock heavy metal group immortalized in the 1984 mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap,” will reunite for a performance at Wembley Stadium in London as part of the Live Earth concerts scheduled worldwide for July [...]

Okay so Kian over at Eco-Chick didn’t find Sarah Silverman’s “A Very Convenient Truth” so funny, but I really think it’s important to retain both a sense of humour, and a sense of perspective. Sarah uses humour to get across the same points as Gore, using the same footage, but is utterly lampooning herself [...]

The South African Mail and Guardian is saying US answer to global warming: Smoke and giant mirrors.
The United States government wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the Guardian has learned.
It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective [...]

Cartoon used under licence from Cartoon Stock. — DS

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As usual Doonesbury is right on the money. The Jan 14th cartoon seemed very apt. Click on the image for the full comic strip. — DS

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It made me laugh anyway. — DS

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Thanks to the WWF for this vid. — DS

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