You can call me backward, but I’ve just watched Al Gore’s An inconvenient Truth for the first time. And it’s rant time.

Al Gore giving his An inconvenient Truth presentation. Source: businessweek.com.

Don’t get me wrong here, I really applaud the cause. Climate change is one of the biggest problems our world is facing nowadays. The basic [...]

OK, this is really lame. Today is blog action day and I’ve been too busy to get together a proper post. Sorry about that! Maybe I should’ve saved this post for today. Never mind.

So here goes with something that has been on my mind recently: ethical careers. As a student just about [...]

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has made a proposal that has been attracting attention world wide: instead of exploiting the oil reserves under Yasuní National Park, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, he has asked for donations of $350 million in exchange for a promise not to extract any oil from the area.

“Vive Yasuní” - Campaigners protesting against [...]

“Cause concerts” are in fashion. First it was Live 8, now it’s Live Earth. Poverty and climate change, two of today’s biggest global challenges, if not the most pressing ones.
The Live Earth concerts show that the problem is starting to reach consciences beyond the usual “greenies”, which is a good thing. And despite a few [...]

Madrid bajo la contaminación. (Fuente: El País).
Con la llegada del verano, llega también la estación de la contaminación. El País nos acerca hoy este artículo inquietante sobre la situación en España.

Crude oil exploitation in Ecuador has long been one of my favourite rant subjects, ever since I’ve seen it in person. But it seems that other people are on it, too: Sting’s wife, Trudy Styler, co-founder of the Rainforest Foundation, has just been there and has reported back on the experience.

A child plays next to [...]

I just rediscovered the Peak Oil theory and thought it was so nifty I just had to write about it. It is based on a theory by M. King Hubbert, an American geophysicist working for - attention - Shell in Houston, Texas. So you really can’t accuse the man of being unfavourably biased against oil [...]

Following up the other day’s post on Gapminder, here is another very cool graphic and interactive representation of human development. Breathing Earth maps CO2 emissions, births, and deaths on a world map - in real time. Watch the industrial countries committing ecological sins and China’s population grow…
Seen on: Microsiervos.