Holland has some cool people these days. Tiesto is the biggest DJ, Doutzen Kroes is a super model and Laura Dekker sails around the world at! It's a huge demonstration of the capabilities of young people if they are taken seriously. But there is also a green side to this. Sailing is a very green mode of transpsortation. Holland became richt through sailing, first trading along the european coast, later with Asia, in battle with other maritime powers like Spain, England and Protugal. Let's hope this means a revival of sailing, a sport that does not have to be expensive. Let's hope for sailing cargo ships, that will haul goods much safer today than they used to and be 100% green...
Concept ship (build) Maltese Falcon, demonstrates automated sail control for wind propulsion...
Norway, that is wealthy for it's carbon resources, is not the best country from wich one could drive climate awarenesss, but every bit helps. Here for the first time a link between climate action and classical music. Putting a message into art by definition deminishes it's quality, because with musical art it's about the performance, not the achievement. If anything one can write an epic opera about climate change and how the world managed it so poorly, showing it could not overcome the hubris and arrogance of the oil industry.. But hey, these are babes right!
Why let the until now recklessly wastefull and destructive oil and gas industry make that extra buck on the way out? Piosoning our ground water, rivers and streams with cancerous compounds. Why not telll them to go screw themselves and leave our planet alone?
It is not worth it to allow Fracking anywhere, the yileds are overrated, they release radioactive materials from the ground and cause earthquakes. Tell the guys in the trucks to go F themselves or drink and shower in the methanized water themselves.
Recently we posted about Anke Domanske, a german fashion designer that developed a cotton substitutye based on milke proteins. Neri Oxman is another brilliant woman that seems to have an interest in texture and fabric. Both prove that scientific reseach and development is just something you can do, like anything else. Linda Loudermilk seems to take a simpler approach. Sushi makers may recognize the nori seaweed applied here as decomposible bathing garments, bikini's. Edible as wel one would think..
Today our queen Beatrix answered Climatababes Question from this Queensday. Yes, she wants us to take the finite nature of our eco system into account and stop being bankers. Yeey!!
"The lives of those that come after us are in danger.."