“Bobwheelers” Aim Spotlight On Climate Change During Games…
February 9, 2010
Giggle. I spent a good part of my morning on the beach in front of my house today, looking back up at the mountains and wondering if the bears were awakening from hibernation, confused no doubt by all the birds chirping and lack of, you know, cold and snow. Fittingly, when I returned home, I found this email in my inbox:
Offsetters, the Official Carbon Offset Supplier of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, launched their tongue-in-cheek campaign today to make Bobwheeling a demonstration sport for future Winter Games that may lack snow and ice due to climate change. The Bobwheel will make appearances in Vancouver as part of the spectator engagement campaign Offsetters is implementing before and during the Games to educate visitors, spectators and locals about climate change and offsetting.
I realise climatologists are pinning the unseasonably high temperatures on El Nino (that little f@cking bastard), but I nevertheless got a kick out of the idea of 2 men careening down Taylor Way in a bobwheeler. They already do street luge, so why not? Learn more at www.Bobwheeling.com.
PS. We’ve just learned that if you hear one more person jokingly comment that this should be the Summer Olympics and not the Winter Olympics, you are free to kick them in the left knee, really hard.
How To Scare Your Kids & Make Them Think Parents Kill Bunnies
October 21, 2009
A new British advertisement poignantly stirs the climate change pot (via AdFreak).
Endangered Island Nation Holds Underwater Cabinet Meeting…
October 18, 2009
When the world’s top scientists tell you that your entire nation is in imminent danger of being flooded over because sea levels are on the rise as a consequence of global warming, and then you learn that the rest of the tardonaut world could give a shit because there’s this kid in a balloon, see, and plus that dude from Twilight has such pretty bone structure, it’s time to get creative (via Treehugger):
The president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, and his ministers yesterday held an official cabinet meeting underwater as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to bring increased global attention to climate change.
As far as stunts go, I say gold, just maybe not as hot as balloon boy. Maybe if Fox gave the country its own reality show? I dunno. Since 80% of their 1,200 islands are just 1 meter above sea level, there can’t be much future in it, maybe 3 seasons, tops. Read more on the meeting and the Maldives’ battle after the leap… Read more
