The Green Scene

Ever wonder where the world’s biggest wind farms projects are located? Wonder no more.
Swami Ramdev threatens ‘protest and political ruin’ on India’s political elite if they do not ‘purify the chronically polluted Ganges’. Take note. This kind of people power (we do live in a democracy after all) is the only way we can see [...]

Brother Son. Sister Moon.

The Celtic Tiger – A Short Retrospective

Alot of people made some money.
Some people made alot of money.
As always, most did their best with what they had.
Everybody served the system well.
We ‘progressed’ and we ‘developed’, but are we really prospering?
As the tidal wave we all rode for that small moment in time comes crashing to shore, most will struggle to find meaning [...]

Friday’s Green Icon – Sunita Narain

This week’s icon is a lady well known in her home country of India. For decades she has managed successfully to marry the ideals of political activism, environmentalism and sustainable development in ways that we in the West are far from achieving.
Beginning her illustrious career as a writer and researcher for the State of India’s [...]

Friday’s Green Icon – Chico Mendes

‘At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realise I am fighting for humanity’.
On the evening of December 22, 1988, one week after his 44th birthday, Chico Mendes was murdered at his home in the Amazon rainforest. He died [...]

Of course I’m mad. That was never in doubt. Not from the start. The question you need to ask yourself is… ‘Am I stupid?’

TV Series – Fever

This one I love LOve LOVE!!!
I just love festivals. Most of the time we go through our daily lives and the system tells us who we are and what we stand for. we judge other people based on that. We avoid eye contact. we get pissed of with someone when the service isnt good even [...]