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Dreamgrove

dreamgrove

Good weather…

… makes me feel slightly misanthropic.

The cyclist

Lightness of being, self-sufficiency, human tortoise.

Christophe Egret of Studio Egret West via RIBA Journal Unconsidered Trifles

Girolamo

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), Engraving by Claude Mellan, 1619

Girolamo Frescobaldi via Spotify. Sheer brilliance.

My London Polaroids V

Easter in London. Somewhere in Shepherd’s Bush.

Note to self…

Andrew Wyeth, Winter, 1946
Tempera on board
31 3/8 x 48 in (79.7 x 121.9 cm)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

…and the future historian of the web-based human communication: I consciously entered the 2.0 era of  absorbing information when I realized I could no longer stand reading a piece of text [be it a Guardian opinion column or a Pitchfork review] without scrolling down the page looking for disagreeing comments. And when these are missing, I would spend hours googling the article title only to find opposing views expressed in forums or blogs or some other remote corner of the web.

[I still despise wikis though.]

Climate crunch

Image credits: Have Some Hats

Workload and a flu kept me away from ‘the streets’ unfortunately. But I’m enormously happy to find out that people around me are so deeply frustrated with the way ‘the system’ works/is failing. And what’s more, the word ‘ecological’ precedes the word ‘financial’ before ‘crisis’ in many of the articles I’ve been reading since yesterday.

Mat Meggary talks about yesterday’s Climate Camp

Is the financial crisis good for the climate?

In terms of changes to investments and output, to various climate friendly and not so climate friendly projects, its a bit of a mixed bag. But that’s not really the point. The financial crisis could be an opportunity for renewal. For making the changes we need to tackle climate change and finally bringing some sense of equity to the world. But we can’t just hope for change and we shouldn’t rejoice in something that’s bringing ever more suffering to millions in the here and now. For the crisis to really be good for the climate, we need to use it to expose the inherent contradictions in the financial system and empower people to imagine something new. The crisis certainly exposes the insanities of carbon trading to a whole new level.

More on the Climate Crunch and the inherent failures of carbon trading schemes here.

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