The Zero Carbon Caravan

…many people simply do not believe that such a world is possible, so they need a good example giving a practical demonstration of what is possible. This is where the Zero Carbon Caravan comes in (here the word ‘caravan’ is used in the sense of a group of people traveling together, rather than a metal box towed behind a car.)

Maltese Falcon (290ft), and co., photo RobertGalbraithWe will demonstrate how it is possible to travel, work and play all without generating any carbon emissions at all. We will provide a positive, inspiring vision of the future, where, instead of merely consuming, we lead fulfilling lives.

clipped from culturechange.org The Zero Carbon Caravan: Sail and Bike to Copenhagen! The world stands at a crossroads. One way continues with business as usual and ends up with abrupt climate change causing the premature deaths of hundreds of millions, if not billions of people, and the extinction of many of the world’s plant and animal species. The other way leads to a future in which we do things in a radically different alternative way, and in so doing manage not only to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change, but also to make ourselves happier. Contrary to much of the propaganda put out by the mainstream media, this alternative does not involve “sitting in a cave with a candle,” but is instead one where technology becomes our servant not our master, where we have ample time for leisure and relationships with family and friends, which actually makes us happier, instead of living in the world we have now, being made perpetually unsatisfied by advertising selling us the latest consumer junk

Doctor recycles prescription drugs to the homeless

Seems like a very sensible practice. But, these doctors are probably breaking the law.

The article calls it “recycling” but in reality it is re-using [although the drugs have never been used]

clipped from www.cbc.ca Doctor recycles prescription drugs to the homeless A prominent Canadian doctor has begun to recycle unused prescription drugs to homeless people in Ottawa because he says they could not afford them otherwise, CBC News has learned. He and Dr. Ron MacCormick, an oncologist in Sydney, N.S., want provincial governments to establish regulations that would guide doctors who want to recycle unused prescription drugs that would otherwise be thrown out. “I think it’s a common sense issue where we could come up with common sense guidelines to direct this,” Turnbull said. Turnbull, who will become president of the Canadian Medical Association later this year, gives the unused drugs to patients at an inner city health centre in Ottawa.

Write for Reuse

This is great advice for anyone who writes blogs, or other content for the web.

clipped from www.useit.com Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, March 2, 2009: Write for Reuse Summary: Users often see online content out of context and read it with different goals than you envisioned. While you can’t predict all such goals, you can plan for multiple uses of your text. No matter your medium, it’s fairly standard advice to simply write for your readers and their tasks. For old media, reader goals are well known, ranging from being entertained (when reading a mystery novel) to getting investment ideas (when reading the Wall St. Journal’s “Markets” section). Writing for the Web differs, however, because various users might approach a given piece of content in different ways: