Blogs & Ecology

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Kurapak and his crew during a local radio interview

Kurapak literally means 'speak' in Bruneian Malay. Mr. Kurapak amuses his 3,000 daily readers with his daily doses of humour appealing to Bruneian readers. Some of these stories are old local jokes that has been shared by his dad many years ago but Kurapak has made a twist to these stories, making them appealing to the current young generation.

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Green has gone mainstream—there's no doubt about that now. Celebrities touting their "green" lifestyles, corporations announcing "green" initiative after "green" initiative, and politicians publicly calling for "green" legislation and policies all relentlessly graced the airwaves and internet pages throughout 2008. But was last year the year when eco-verbiage finally came to be much too much?...

Desmogblog brings us Rob Cottingham's cartoon, but cut his great headline, which we repeat above.

Our previous post on coal and Christmas: Coal now too Expensive to Put in Stockings and for a little cheer, listen to the only surviving recordings of Clean Coal Carolers from an Industry Run By Morons...

Bikerdude at Bengalooru Banter shares with us some of the entertaining voices and accents that can be heard in Bangalore.

Jamaicans have an innovative method of dealing with the impact of the global economic crisis - Iriegal says that merchants “are now cutting everything in half and selling it at reduced prices.”

photo by gailf548

Hollywood has been slipping environmental messages into their blockbusters lately. I’m not talking about smart indy films or well-researched documentaries. I’m talking about movies that are marketed to a mass audience and have dizzying special effects, plenty of bad-guy punching, unchecked vehicle chases and expensive things that explode. You know, the stuff good clean family fun is made of. ...

Ben Sweeney's Weblog recounts the best driving lesson yet in Georgia and at the same time encounters an apparently magnetic mountain.

Costa Rican online collective nosedecirlaerre.com which translates into “I can´t pronounce the R” has set out a call for participation from Costa Ricans and those familiar with their culture to create a collaborative video for Christmas. The campaign is called Uniting Ticos for Christmas and the requirements are quite simple: dancing in the Costa Rican style of “swing criollo” the popular end of the year song Jugo de Piña and saying something in Costa Rican slang, on video.

Our Plan to Save Detroit
It is with tongue planted firmly in cheek that we present you our plan to save the big Detroit automakers from smaller and more efficient foreign cars: They simply need to knock off highly desirable foreign cars, but make them super-efficient and inexpensive by shrinking them! Voilà!

Many more models of the cars of tomorrow below the fold....

Lúcia Malla [pt] and a group of friends - all of whom have twitter accounts - show what happens when twitter addicts meet in a bar: they keep twiterring offline. See the pictures. “Experiment's general conclusion: the more difficult thing on the offline twitter is to design your avatar. ;)  (and calligraphy books for everyone as Christmas gift …: D: D)”

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As we get closer to shutting down the first decade of the millennium, we have many fond celebrity comments that have echoed across the headlines and made us all laugh (at least a few of us anyway). While these quotes were undoubtedly intended to appear intelligent and conscientious of the planet in some shape or form, they just didn't quite make it across the headlines the way they would have liked. Let's look at our top 5 examples of this......

SpongeBob SquarePants runs across a grassy Japanese garden, mowing down 'smog monsters' and other gas guzzling foes with some sort of green gun as he goes. Every so often, he hurls a glowing green orb at a dead-looking tree and makes it sprout leaves.

Comics by Alex Hallatt used with permission. Courtesy of King Features Syndicate.

I am so happy that I got them into Youtube, because it appears that enough people complained about the Coal Carolers that they have skipped town. Some thought they were just stupid, but others implied that rewriting Silent Night was sacreligious. Rachel Maddo...