by Minter Dial | May 17, 2008 | Environment
Alain Robert – Super Spiderman Scales Skyscrapers for Climate Change On an ABC World News webcast from 4/15/08, I heard about Alain Robert, the proverbial fou furieux. Robert, a Frenchman, is as close as you will get to a real Spiderman…without the web...
by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Environment, New Tech
WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) began the Earth Hour — lights out for an hour — in 2007 in Sydney Australia. The notion is that between 8-9pm in your time zone wherever you are in the world, everyone is to turn off their lights (or at least make some...
by Minter Dial | Jan 27, 2008 | Environment, Travel
Here’s a wonderful Panorama photo offering a full panoramic vision (as long you scroll to the right) of Paris by night. (Thanks for the link Gifford!). It is much more impressive than this lovely shot to the right that I found randomly on line. The Paris...
by Minter Dial | Nov 3, 2007 | Environment, Travel
How can a beautiful Paris keep its soul? This is basically the question posed in this great article in The Guardian: “Battle for the Soul of a City” by Andrew Hussey. Turned onto this article by Notes from Paris (thanks F), I was delighted by the open and...
by Minter Dial | Sep 24, 2007 | Environment
Following my last post, (How Green Are You?), on the topic of being green, going to have to give a plug for our Norwegian friends, whose government have decided to render Bastoey, one of its low security prisons, “ecologically friendly.” The 115 inmates...
by Minter Dial | Sep 24, 2007 | Environment
As the ecological movement goes mainstream, it occurred to me that we might benefit from a protocol to establish how much each individual is eco-friendly. Not that I am wanting to flush out the hypocritical bobos or ‘gauche caviar’ profiles…but it...
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