(source: http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/) The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the second-lowest extent

At least once a year I refer someone I meet to Danny’s superb piece on Wired UK. I wanted to

Further to the outcry at the time, this weekend The Guardian reports; “Channel 4 to be censured over controversial climate

As if she needed to leave a greater legacy, a tape recovered from her attic 7 years ago after she

Interesting2008 lived up to its name today. I gave a rather rapid (7 minute!) summary of Acoustic Cosmology. As a

Lovely stuff.

STEAD James, age 107 (b. 1901), passed away peacefully in his sleep on Sunday 8th June 2008 on his beloved

As the UN sets out its food crisis measures, and setting aside the climate change, population growth and other globalisation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ For (mostly my own) reference, here’s a scan of the printed version Thanks to Wendy.

Some people are too clever by half. (to the dopplr, batbit) Flying with radar, gaming trashes the internet, passively.

The core of dgen, 30th April, 22:54:19 up 370 days. #reboot complete A bit like my brain feels.

For those interested in fine art, my friend and long-term collaborator, Ulya Gumeniuk, will be at the National Gallery (Room

“Carbon target is a guaranteed catastrophe” This was the headline on the front page of The Guardian today. “If you

Billboard says “CBS Radio and Last.fm, both owned by CBS Corp, have teamed up for closer collaboration on their respective

Interesting coincidence of acronyms: Gross World Product vs Global Warming Potential vs Global Water Partnership

Interesting convergences: http://www.opendemocracy.net/…/global_threat_multiplier “…calls for an integrated response to climate change and the wealth-poverty divide.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/20/freeourdata.politics “A government study has

Sad news today. Clarke‘s three laws; 1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is

This is very promising – the Library of Congress is starting to add its archives to Flickr “The real magic

I was hoping that I was being ridiculous when creating the “ultimate reality TV show format” – Human Tamagochi –

This is great (GB) || awesome (US); “PAD.MA is an online archive of densely text-annotated video material, primarily footage and

AMEE is in the USA (California and Texas) from 2nd – 13th March. I’m presenting at 1) ETech talk (8:45am

CI (of which I’m a Director) has been shortlisted for the Music Week Award “Distributor of the Year”. It’s a

From TED Talks: Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action — and how

Set course for 2008…. I’ve blanked out the specifics, but each blue box is a meeting… it’s going to be

EDF are providing bonus schemes to customers if they provide easier access to their data (fuel consumption), and then additional

“latest modelling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years.” [BBC] This is following

I’m obviously very, very happy about this. When we first began our AMEE journey, we thought it would be perfect

Just an idea… Web 0.0 — the zero-emission Internet? The zero-energy web. The zero-emission Internet. The zero-net. “I go all

Further to my last summary on the lowest ever sea ice measurement, things are not getting any better; (source: http://nsidc.org/)

On 17th Aug 2007, Arctic sea ice surpassed the previous single-day (absolute minimum) record for the lowest extent ever measured

I’ve now had a chance to download, try and then, unfortunately un-install the BBC iPlayer. There’s already a lot of

Kind of what you’d expect from the Media, but it’s still saddening to see. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2195538.ece .. it’s like much of

As we near the launch there are some great pieces starting to hit the wire… Currybet start with this great

More congrat’s to MySociety on their continuous setting of the bar on social engagement – this is the 3rd year

Courtesy of The Economist (click for hi-res). The USA is the number one for petrol consumption at just under 1.4

Live Earth is live. I’m wondering what it’d be like if it’d been held by Global Cool instead of Al

Excerpt from Rolling Stone “… To direct the White House’s spin on global warming, Connaughton appointed Philip Cooney as his

Great news – Google commits to go Carbon Neutral by 2008 – a very aggressive timeframe indeed. “This is just

Hopefully the last cross-post between the AMEE blog and this one… it’s launching this week. AMEE Press Area

AMEE now has her own blog. http://www.amee.cc/ Please subscribe and help move us forward.

This is great, another “hat’s off” to the Climate Group, and the Greater London Authority. DIY Planet Repairs is a

This is a great set of visualisations – would be great to see the originals (which are 10 foot wide)

As reported by the Washington Post “President Bush has consistently called for the development of advanced technology to help meet

From the BBC “… according to Dr Copland, the fact that such thick ice could split apart in less than

We just launched Amee – a framework for collaborative campaigning on Climate Change. It’s an API on CO2 data and

” The company’s goals are to reduce its operations’ carbon emissions significantly and to engage its 47,000 employees and its

If you’d like to get involved, have a look ℵhere.

This is very important news http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2007/070423a.htm “A major new campaign that aims to help individuals cut their personal CO2 emissions

http://www.ci-info.com/jobs.html

Apple still at the bottom. Nokia still high. When you look at the production volumes of these products (in the

at. last. http://techreport.com/onearticle.x/12160 http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html Of course, all CI’s clients already sell non-DRM’d music…

The new UK policy regarding profiling the energy efficiency of your home as part of its sale will help reduce

On The Great Global Warming Swindle. “There will always be people with conspiracy theories trying to do down the scientific

This is a huge step forward. “The government has unveiled plans to set a “legally binding” target to cut carbon

Not entirely sure what Channel Four thinks it was doing, but this helps clear it up… “the channel – is

This should be a very interesting conference… “The O’Reilly Energy Innovation Conference frames the ideas, projects, and technologies that are

So no one should have any doubts left. Really. There can be no reason to not act. I’m only linking

From BBC “Climatic changes seen around the world are “very likely” to have a human cause, the Intergovernmental Panel on

Global Cool at Number 10: transcript Blair, “I think this is just a wonderful initiative that I hope will inspire

So, today is the official Global Cool launch day. Expect a fair bit of coverage tomorrow in the UK and

We’ve launched v0.3 of the site, with an all-new carbon calculator with more valid and traceable calculations and tied into

Some interesting pieces coming out now… On the CEO, Julian Knight, in the Telegraph. On some of the media relationships…

Hello from San Francisco, meanwhile, in The Guardian… “The really chilling thing about the IPCC report is that it is