Check out Shelter, an excellent short film on Lloyd Kahn – a societal refugee, home guru and likely master of the freakin’ universe…

Lloyd Kahn claims that shelter is more than a roof over your head. As the author and publisher of over a dozen books on home construction, Lloyd has been grappling with the concept of home, physically and psychically, for over five decades. Situated in the financial and housing crisis, this film profiles Lloyd’s ideas on do-it-yourself construction and sustainability.

Watch it…

It’s just so…yesterday. Try living – like Rishi Sowa does- on an island made of plastic bottles.

From 1998 to 2005, Rishi Sowa hand-built and lived on the first Spiral Island, which floated on over 300,000 recycled bottles. It was destroyed by Hurricane Emily in 2005. Rishi has now built an even better island at Isla Mujeres, Mexico, in a lagoon which offers shelter from bad weather. Rishi will continue to make improvements to the Island, so it will always be a eco-work-of-art in progress…

I suppose it’s easier when you’re a little bonkers and quick to be distracted by “on-usual eeensectz”…

A conservation advocacy group from Santa Monica made this fantastic short film detailing how a “wild” plastic bag “migrates” to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the ocean. That it’s narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons makes it doubly awesome. If you watch just one thing today, this should be it.

PS. Beware the Yorkie!

Surely this electric-powered Tesla sports car with its eco-smug personalised license plate is on its way to LAX for a private jet joyride (via The Daily What).

via Ad Freak:

It’s bad enough that Greenpeace is a pine needle in the ass and fishhook in the eye of hard-working loggers and whalers worldwide. (Loggers and whalers breaking the law? As if!) Now, the environmental group is exploiting the World Cup with the Australian spot below, which claims, “Every two seconds an area of forest the size of a football pitch is being cut down.” What’s their point? No endangered species inhabits a football pitch, unless you count the U.S. national team. The graphic in the spot shows green match-head trees covering a soccer field. They’re set ablaze, and flames engulf the goal.