Against Climate Change

PHP is not very Kopenhagen

Kai — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:41:15 +0000

What a strange way of thinking: How to compare the carbon footprint of programming languages?

But I think it is fair to say that using PHP, especially for large deployments, is not very Kopenhagen.

What the world will look like if/when the oceans rise

Kai — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 06:57:19 +0000

Interactive Flood Maps show us how familiar land contours will change as the oceans rise. Spooky!

Analysis Says Planes Might Be Greener Than Trains

Kai — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:18:20 +0000

No way! Thats a pure statistical effect which can’t be true:

New Scientist has an interesting piece up about the calculable energy costs per mile for various forms of transportation. Despite the headline (“Train can be worse for climate than plane“), the study it describes deals with highway-based vehicles, too: the authors attempted to integrate not just the cost at the tailpipe (or equivalent) for each mode of transport, but also the costs of developing and supporting the associated infrastructure, such as rails, highways and airports. Such comparisons are tricky, though; a few years back, a widely circulated report claimed that the Toyota Prius had a higher per-mile lifetime cost than the Hummer (see that earlier Slashdot post for good reason to be skeptical of the methodology and conclusions). I wonder how the present comparison would be affected by a calculation of (for instance) how much it would cost to move by plane the freight currently carried by trains.

GMs future with Michael Moore

Kai — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:45:41 +0000

Some – as usual – great words from Michael Moore:

At the deathbed of General Motors, I find myself filled with—dare I say it—joy. Here are my nine suggestions for transforming the company.

The green scare

Kai — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:36:36 +0000

It’s astonishing what makes the definition of a terrorist. Some folks do believe there are people like eco-terrorists and declare a green scare. But beeing scared of in this way is something to be proud of! Only some people make the first step in seeing what goes wrong with the world, politics, and environment around them.

Be scared!

The world we live in

christine — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:18:51 +0000

The world today is much far away from the world I knew.

Life is sound and we are all free.
But everything will has its fee.

People are dying in senseless wars for freedom,
they are told but that’s wrong we should know

The world we live in is fallen apart,
but there no is time for changing our part.

A melting glacier is the tittle-tattle of today.
The drought in Spain is far away.

The birds are strange this year , but no one cares
its a nice bird from far away.

But stop I have to go there ’s strictly dancing on BBC 4.
I change when time will say, but not today.

Oh dear, how will be the world we stay?

No such thing as Global Warming

Kai — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:54:49 +0000

A very sad moment for the EU, their own president Václav Klaus denies the existence of global warming as a valueless theory.

Click here to view the embedded video.

a green financial crisis

Kai — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:24:01 +0000

Great news: The industrie minimized its polution. Well, it minimized its production, too. Are these the positiv effects of recession? Is it a green win over financial desaster?

car-free Monday

Kai — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:29:52 +0000

In Europe this monday should be a car-free monday, as a sign of green protest. Sadly enough there will only be a tiny fraction of supporters. We have every monday car-free, same as every tuesday and so on. Live without car is possible, without very big losses in private live. Yes, we can!

The green Wiki

Kai — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:20:23 +0000

Wikipedia’s Wales launches Wikia Green

Nice idea, let the people themself collect and distribute their green ideas.