Nick Young

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YouTube - Sir Anthony Hopkins speaks out for the whales.

According to the Herald this morning our leaders are considering an additional tax on petrol…
Motorists face paying more for petrol through regional fuel taxes, levied to pay for local transport projects including the electrification of Auckland’s suburban trains.
For more roads? Are they insane? What about climate change? What about peak oil? I say whack [...]

A little while ago i wrote a post about my efforts to provide a good easy way for people to host the Greenpeace action rss feed on their website.
The problem was that while we’ve got our “Really Simple Syndication” feeds set up, it’s not always really simple for people to use them. So with Feed2JS [...]

YouTube - Ben & Jerry’s Climate Change College entry

“YOU DON’T NEED AN EDUCATION TO SAVE THE PLANET”

To follow up his number 1 hit ‘Call On Me’ Swedish dance legend Eric Prydz has released this new track sampling Pink Floyd’s ‘Another Brick In The Wall’.
Using both the original vocal track and other parts of the original hit Prydz gives retains the anti-establishment aesthetics [...]

I know I’ve always been curious … you can see it here
Why we crushed 10,000 lightbulbs
These are obsolete, but widely available, energy wasting incandescent lightbulbs. This type of bulb wastes 95 percent of its energy generating heat instead of light. This wasted energy mostly comes from burning fossil fuels like coal - causing climate change [...]

Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong.
- Paul Ehrlich
It is human nature to protect your own interests. We may recall the extensive and incredibly successful campaign of the [...]

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Hilarious.