Emily - one my clients - won the semi-final of this contest! She has a bokashi bucket in her company’s office and her mother is using bokashi on Bowen Island. Congratulations Emily!!
From an article in the Vancouver Sun:
Emily Jubenvill is more than just an environmentally minded Vancouverite.
She is the greenest person in Canada, and one of five people worldwide in the running to become the "Greenest Person on the Planet."
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More than 600 people from 25 countries entered the contest, which posed a series of questions testing entrants’ eco-commitment.
Fifty of them were named finalists in the global search for the greenest person, with voters asked to cast their ballots for the top five contenders. Source
I have no control over what happens only how I respond to it. Usually in my other work, I am a duck and whatever people say to me rolls off. But not today. Within minutes of starting work, a few bad encounters started an anxiety attack. I wanted to quit right then and there, but I worked through it. Eventually, it passed with deep breathing and a hug [I asked for one] and I was able to get through the rest of the day.
When I got home and checked my daily zeitgeist I found this one:
I stopped at No. 29 and as watched, all the shmutz of the day simply melted away.
Here, on live TV, without benefit of editing or retakes, Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray silently mime a domestic dispute whose crescendos and valleys perfectly correspond to classical music. It’s brilliant, and there’s not much more to say.
One of my clients - Bentley Christie - is interviewed about composting by this online non-profit that “provides open graphic design and other services/projects.” Near the end, when Bentley talks about bokashi, they feature two of my photos. Here is one of them:
Credit for all Flickr Creative Commons photos is given at the end of the podcast.
Interesting and disturbing at the same time for the U.S. - sadly, nothing new for Vancouver - but I wanted to know about the music playing in the video, that I really liked.
Aside: If you have more than one option to share/embed a video, do you look at the profile of the YouTube member posting it to see what else they have saved? I do. I may like their taste in music but not their sense of humour.
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I love this creative blast from the past, but I think Richard Nixon might be starting to lose his relevance….
The sign makers told me this was not a real quote, but when you watch the video, Kevin Falcon says that the Gateway Project will not raise greenhouse gas emissions. Go figure.
With that question, wonderingmind42 -”a high school science teacher in the process of burning out” begins a 10 minute lecture on climate change / global warming and the consequences of doing nothing. Rightly so, he titles his video “Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See [and the most important]”
Stop Press!
DON’T WATCH THIS VIDEO [the link above]. I’m serious. This message isn’t a hack (I’m the guy in the video), and it’s not a ploy to get you to actually watch it (reverse psychology).
It’s just that there’s a hole in this argument big enough to drive a Hummer through because of an assumption I didn’t realize I had (isn’t that just the way with assumptions. . .), and the argument has been UPDATED to address that hole.
So instead of watching this old, tired, hole-y video, go watch the NEW, IMPROVED version
The cost of doing nothing is a lot more expensive and disastrous. Click, watch and share with everyone.
Then do something - change public policy - to avoid the negative [far worse] scenarios.
Click through to YouTube to see all the supporting material.
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Look closely and you will see pollen on the legs of the bees as they walk from their landing area into the hive.
Aside from the wind, the sounds in the background are an industrial area [see map link above] across the street from the gardens. I’ve been here in the summer where four hives are active and I still can’t hear the bees buzzing because of that noise unless I get really close.
This clip was filmed using a Samsung Digimax D53 camera and the 3x optical zoom. I am sitting about 3 feet away from the hive. Windows Moviemaker used to add the Titles and brighten the image 1x.
Since yesterday afternoon, I am getting an error message that says I need to complete all fields even though the Tags *are* filled in. I keep getting the same error message when I retry, even after I’ve cleared my cache and restarted my computer.
Anyone else have this issue and know of a solution? YouTube support has been contacted.
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I bicycle around Vancouver a lot and this is the fastest traffic light change I know of. Know of another in Vancouver? Post a video response at YouTube. Enjoy!
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