Nick Young

I am deeply despondent about the total and utter lack of leadership and foresight shown by the world’s so called leaders. The climate summit was a train wreck.

Obama! I had so much hope. I believed you when you said we could.

However, I am an optimist and as Greenpeace has said - their failure will inspire action. I belive it will. The world has never seen the like of it and it will get larger, stronger and angrier.

I’ll repost Joss Garman’s piece from the Independent here because I think he hits the nails on the heads.

Joss Garman: Copenhagen - Historic failure that will live in infamy

Green activist’s searing despatch from Denmark

The most progressive US president in a generation comes to the most important international meeting since the Second World War and delivers a speech so devoid of substance that he might as well have made it on speaker-phone from a beach in Hawaii. His aides argue in private that he had no choice, such is the opposition on Capitol Hill to any action that could challenge the dominance of fossil fuels in American life. And so the nation that put a man on the Moon can’t summon the collective will to protect men and women back here on Earth from the consequences of an economic model and lifestyle choice that has taken on the mantle of a religion.
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Check out the Greenpeace / Sign On Planet A March and Concert December the 5th, Auckland, 1pm — last chance before Copenhagen to kick John’s sorry ass over to Denmark!

March from Albert park to Myers park for a free concert featuring Op shop, Midnight Youth, Don McGlashin, Lucy Lawless, Keisha Castle-hughes and MC’d by Rhys Darby! Rocking!!

And, for those who are not north of the Bombay hills the event is being streamed live in what could be a NZ first by ziln web tv www.ziln.co.nz — even more rocking!!

But wait there’s more … a giant HAKA! … here’s a tutorial video:

The giant NZ dairy cooperative Fonterra have been exposed by a Greenpeace investigation as being responsible for destruction of rain-forests in Indonesia and Malaysia. Their intensive industrial dairy model requires NZ farmers to use supplemental feed - in this case palm kernels grown on land where up until very recently was pristine rain-forest inhabited by the endangered Sumatran tiger and orangutan. The palm kernel is imported into NZ by a company called RD1 which are half owned by you guessed it - Fonterra! This is so wrong on so many levels.

A friend of mine is making and delivering Green smoothies in Auckland. I have tried them and they are amazing. Really truly amazing.

Here’s the skinny:

The reason they are so good and energising (this can be measured in Hz) is that they are freshly juiced, slow extracted so enzymes are retained (or vitimized to the cellular level of the plant in the case of the smoothie without pulp extraction so the enzymes are again in the body of the liquid). All the juices are unpasteurised also (pasteruisation kills all enzymes in the juice, meaning the vitimins and minerals cannot be effectively absorbed into the body. You can only get effective absorption into the blood through raw organics.
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I blogged a while back about Blackle - a way of saving power by using a black version of google (or any other site for that matter). Great idea except that apparently it doesn’t work for LCD monitors or at least not significantly anyway.

This new project sheds some more light on this and confirms that it’s not such an effective thing if you’re using an LDC monitor or a laptop but my goodness it’s nicely executed!

Check out Blackpixel.

If you’re going to do one thing for the world this year then do this. Sign On to ask John Key to commit to 40 per cent emissions reduction targets by 2020. It’s a must.

Just ask Jim Salinger and Bonnie Soper and the chaps from Huffer

I’m always on the lookout for new social networking opportunities and this connecting of digg and facebook looks really useful.

Digg: Facebook Connect Demo from Digg Meetups on Vimeo.

This great new video from Greenpeace shot up into the to 5 viral videos on the day it was launched getting over 50,000 views in 24 hours.

Pass it on … http://www.greenpeace.org/me2