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Cyclists peel off clothes to push pedaling, protest pump
Reuters
Hundreds of naked cyclists, some sporting strategically-placed body paint, toured the streets of London and other cities around the world Saturday to protest oil dependency and the car culture.
Traffic came to a standstill and onlookers gaped or took photographs as the bare cyclists streamed past London’s landmarks, blowing whistles and waving flags saying “Rights for Bikes”.
Cyclists in Paris, France; Madrid, Spain; and Vancouver, British Columbia, among other cities, joined in what was the fourth annual world naked bike ride.
More modest cyclists wore shorts, bikinis or strips of tape.
“We shouldn’t be so dependent on oil,” said Bogdan Potrowski, a 36-year-old Polish electrician, wearing just a baseball cap.
(9 June 2007)
21 Principles for the 21st Century — Series Collection
WorldChanging Team
Over the past month or so, we’ve been running a series of posts highlighting many of the core ideas we discuss on Worldchanging. While it’s not necessarily a complete kit of concepts for envisioning 21st century sustainability, each tool, model or idea in the series plays an important role in the conversations we have on the site and with all of you. Below is the full list of 21 principles collected in one place for future reference.
Principle 1: The Backstory
Principle 2: Ecological Footprints and One Planet Thinking
Principle 3: Cradle to Cradle and Closing the Loop
Principle 4: Life Cycle Analysis, Embodied Energy and Virtual Water
Principle 5: Ecosystem Services and Ecological Economics
Principle 6: Transparency
Principle 7: Strategic Consumption
Principle 8: Leapfrogging
Principle 9: Social Entrepreneurship/Base Of the Pyramid
Principle 10: Collaborative Innovation and Creative Commons
Principle 11: Socially Responsible Investment, Patient Capital and Carbon Disclosure
Principle 12: Philanthropy and NGOs
Principle 13: Product Service Systems
Principle 14: Density, Compact Communities and Smart Growth
Principle 15: Carbon Neutrality and Climate Foresight
Principle 16: Offsetting
Principle 17: Environmental Justice
Principle 18: Sustainable Food
Principle 19: Clean and Renewable Energy
Principle 20: Citizen Media
Principle 21: Imagining the Future
(8 June 2007)
Comprehensive series. See original for links.
Biofuels, diapers and sails – oh my!
Eric Reguly, Globe & Mail
KUEHLUNGSBORN, GERMANY — Cargo ships with kite sails. An underground “diaper” that stores irrigation water. Low-cost solar cells made with “dirty” silicon. A biofuel you can drink made from sawdust, railway ties or dead cows.
Ideas like these are coming alive as the planet warms and energy prices rise, propelling the market for green fuels, renewable energy, low-emission technology and the like. This is especially true in Germany, the host of the G8 Summit, where save-the-planet awareness is traditionally high and governments and investors are willing to throw money at ideas ranging from the weird to the workable.
Some of the concepts made it to the G8 Summit’s media site near Heiligendamm, where presidents, prime ministers and chancellors were hammering out a new climate change agreement.
In seaside pavilions sponsored by “Germany, Land of Ideas,” a promotional agency formed by the German government and the German Industry Association, inventors and entrepreneurs told their stories in the hopes of grabbing the attention of the international media and stray investment officials or diplomats from other countries.
…Some of the ideas are sure to die from lack of funding or the realization that the technology was always too good to be true. But with climate change and energy prices rising, the entrepreneurs are sure to keep the ideas coming.
(9 June 2007)
New Episodes of Peak Moment Television (Video)
Global Public Media
Several new episodes of Peak Moment Television are now available on Global Public Media- check out
Energy Savings for the Home,
The Worm Guy, BriarPatch Co-op,
The Elephant in the Peak Oil Living Room, and
Sustainable Vashon.
(9 June 2007)
