The effect of offshore wind turbine

A stunting picture of wind turbine in action

Image from Without the Hot Air

A collection of Thom Yorke on COP15 and climate change issues

Most famously known as the frontman of the arguably most creative band on this planet, Thom Yorke is no stranger to the climate change debate and politics.

He has been pushing the UK Climate Change Act between 2005 to 2008 with the Friends of Earth (while managed to record and release In Rainbow and The Eraser). The Big Ask Champaign was a success and the Act was legislated.

Last month, he made a surprise visit to COP15.

Here are some interviews of Thom Yorke climate change and COP15

Thom ranted about politicians' incompetence in establishing a robust climate bill. Good one!

Rants continues, target shifted to BBC


On In Rainbow and more politics

A very good lecture on climate change

is about an hour, pretty long. But quite a log of decent information in there!

The Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project

"Save the elephant in an artistic way" can be a very tacky tagline for some elephant conservation projects. But it is kind of suitable for the one I am introducing in this post.

The Asian Elephant Art & Conservation Project (AEACP) is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving the diminishing number of Asian elephants left on our planet through its work with domesticated elephants. The AEACP raises funds through donations and the sale of artwork created by elephants in order to fulfill its mission.

The AEACP exists to:

• improve the welfare of domesticated elephants by facilitating appropriate standards of training, care, food and habitat.
• help support the efforts of conservation organizations working to sustain and protect wild elephant populations.

Elephant in action

Buy this

... or this

and my favorite!

Images from AEACP

Ideas: Sticker solar-powered mobile phone

Image from google

I guess most of the boys had one - spiderman with suckers on hands. I had one fewwwww years ago. It is so simple yet so playable, because that allows the spiderman to really climb on vertical surfaces. A spiderman he who can't climb aint no spiderman!

Today I came across a pretty cool concept mobile phone and it reminded me this sucker spiderman. It is a solar-powered sticker phone designed by Liu Hsiang-Ling. The concept of this design is to build the phone with soft display panel and polysiloxane (what?) , make it possible to create a curved and flexible body. With such elasticity, the whole phone sticks on the window, just like the spiderman sticky toy. By adding solar panel to the body of the phone, the phone can charge the battery while it is sticking on the window. nice!

Photo from Yanko design