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HOME – YouTube

micaros — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:51:28 +0000

Not sure why I can’t recall having seen this earlier…

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate.

The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being.

For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film.

HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

HOME official website
http://www.home-2009.com

The Fenyman Series

micaros — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:25:45 +0000

The Beast File: Koch Brothers

micaros — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:49:35 +0000

via Hungry Beast (click through to watch the vide of the short segment from the program)

The Koch Brother are super-rich global warming sceptcis. Which would all be fine, except for the names and fronts they seem to hide behind. The Koch’s are a case study in faking it on a massive scale.

WordPress 3.04 Visual Editor (TinyMCE) Missing

micaros — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:28:45 +0000

I had a problem on one of my blogs wherein the WordPress visual editor (or TinyMCE) had gone missing with one of the recent updates. Tried disabling plugins to no avail. Finally found a solution that involves editing wp-config.php (which doesn’t seem to have created any other problems, at least not that I’ve noticed yet).

The solution was to add the following line to wp-config.php

define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );

Vote Climate @ Victorian State Election

admin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:17:57 +0000

The Vote Climate campaign is running again for the Victorian State Election. The new website has detailed ratings of the parties policy positions.

Swimming Pigs!

micaros — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 04:12:26 +0000

A lovely way to return from another one of my absences from blogging: a gallery of swimming pigs from Big Major Spot Island in the Bahamas (from the Telegraph)! (HT to LP’s Wednesday Whimsy)

Fully Charged

micaros — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:43:25 +0000

Just came across a nicely done alternative car show from Robert Llewellyn (of Red Dwarf fame!) called FullyCharged. (Hat Tip to Gavin)

Global Warming: Scientists, Media, Public

micaros — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:03:13 +0000

A nice infographic comparing scientific consensus, media coverage and public perception of climate change. Informative, but also a bit depressing! Figures are UK focussed – I’m hoping it isn’t quite so bad here.

Keane on Election 2010

micaros — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:49:03 +0000

A corker of an article in today’s Crikey from Bearnard Keane on the dismal state of politics in Australia. He starts off with…

Yes, this election is rubbish, and it represents the lowest point in policy debate since, probably, 1980.

Yes it’s boring, and visionless, and run by two parties that are entirely risk-averse and who have turned their backs on so much achieved by previous generations of leaders. Parties for whom a key campaign strategy is to explain to voters that they have no intention of carrying out reforms they have long insisted were crucial.

But bad luck – it’s your fault. Politicians, and the media, and the business community all share responsibility for this dire state of affairs, but it’s voters themselves who have ultimately brought this about.

Read the entire article on the Crikey website: This is all your fault.

Update: I should have probably posted earlier about the equally if not more worthy of note piece by Grogs Gamut on the media in this election: waste and mismanagement – the media.

Hazelwood National Day of Action

micaros — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:06:48 +0000

The Replace Hazelwood National Day of Action is on tomorrow, Saturday July 16.

YCAN and DarebinCAN will be manning a stall in North Fitzroy from 11am onwards.