Nick Young

Yesterday we launched the New Zealand version of the international Energy [r]evolution report and man it’s sobering reading. The standout quote is perhaps this one:
It has been said that the entire history of the environmental movement has been a dress rehearsal for the fight against climate change, and it’s a fight that we must win, [...]

This Environmental Journalism Now blog is worth a read.

If you squint you can see me.
Thanks to asciiomatic

There’s some pretty amazing sights to be seen on the webcam aboard the Greenpeace ship Esperanza in the Southern Ocean.
I’ve just spotted what looks like the wallowing whaler Nisshin Maru and just before that I’m sure I saw a penguin on an iceberg.

I’m always stuck for something to set as my browser home page. I’ve had it set on google for some time now but today I came across Netvibes. In a few clicks I’ve set up a home page that includes my google search but also my gmail an image search a couple of rss feeds [...]

This is the most inspired little offering I’ve seen in a long while …

Now this is cool. Zetaprints has set up a website where you can choose a postcard, enter a message about why you think Japan should stop whaling, bung your name on it, pop through to paypal www.hotissues.org.nz/, and hey presto! They print it off and send it to a randomly generated address in [...]

Scoop have launched a very nifty and very web2.0 zeitgeist of their own. It’s a little bit digg and a little bit del.icio.us and I like it! Check it out at www.scoopit.co.nz
It’s great to have a NZ version of the social networking / tagging / bookmarking phenomenon and it’s a smart move by Scoop. Scoopit [...]

True enough. Check it out - save some whales.