… the world’s got me!

Oct 29

Action!

This time in the lead up to the 2008 General Election has seen plenty of organisations getting out there and taking action on issues that matter.

Last week SAFE activists boarded busy inner city buses dressed in pig costumes and squeezed into tiny seats to highlight the little space a pig has when rasied in stalls. This is to coincide with TV spots currently airing on TV3 & C4 as part of SAFE’s LovePigs campaign.

Earlier this morning two teams of Greenpeace activists halted a major conversion of forest land to intensive dairy farming. The first team locked themselves to heavy machinery and the other have used rotary hoes to write CLIMATE CRIME in 5m-high letters into the fresh pasture. Click here for more info + photos.

What can we do to help? Aside from getting our orange overalls and taking action by locking ourselves to heavy machinery? I just came across this cool website called Ripple which uses the internet to generate money for charity. You could become a supporter of SAFE or Greenpeace who are two charitable organisations doing imperitve work to protect the welfare of our animals and our planet.

What other things can we be doing in an attempt to get proactive about issues we care about?

Tags: action, activists, greenpeace, safe

Oct 15

its blog action day hurrr

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Cool to be in NZ being one of the first countries able to blog our ‘blog action day’ post…

If you hadn’t read my last post about blog action day it’s a day we’re “bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind“.

So I guess I can talk breifly about my last 3 weeks of bike experience. I recently have purchased a new bike (a GT Avalanche 3.0) and have over the last 3 weeks been riding it virtually everyday and kitting it out with essential bike attachments:

Bike Lock
Water Bottle Holder
Bike Computer (Speedometer, Odometer)
Rear Mud Guard
Rear safety light
Front safety light

I’ve been riding it every day to work via the Post Office which is now my morning ritual - and meditation - which may be hard to believe considering how intense it can get riding on the roads with cars and Auckland drivers. But also been down at the local skatebowl which has a few jumps around the place learning new skills like Bunny Hopping, Stoppies and Wheelies..

I rave about it to everyone I know because I’ve been having so much fun and its such a practical way to get places! Nice and quick and healthy and fun - I love riding around off curbs and pulling wheelies.. also its somewhat gratifying being part of traffic and negotiating safe passage through some pretty awful drivers.

So if you havnt been on your bike for a while or you don’t have one - consider hopping on next weekend and taking a ride around to your local park or beach - it’ll be worth it.

the week

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So the week beginning 8th of October has been a full on one.. a few things probably worthy of mentioning.

Wednesday 10th - Richard Heinburg

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Thurday 11th - Web Meetup

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Friday 12th - Waipuna and Malaysian Buffet

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Saturday 13th - Judging The Outlook for Someday

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Sunday 14th - Dogs Bollix then Radio

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Here’s the playlist though:

Feist - One Evening
Jens Lekman - It Was a Strange Time In My Life
The Maccabees - Toothpaste Kisses
Smog - It’s Rough
Wilco - Shake It Off
Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Break Of Day
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out To Get Us!
Beirut - Prenzlaurberg
Patrick Wolf - The Railway House
M. Ward - I’ll Be Yr Bird
Ben Harper - In The Colors
Noah Georgeson - Build & Work
Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2
Steve Abel - Beautiful Fish
Devendra Banhart - Freely
Stars - Calender Girl
Antony & The Johnsons - My Lady Story
The Handsome Family - White Lights

Oct 04

Blog Action Day

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On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic. The aim is to get everyone talking towards a better future.

Blog Action Day is about MASS participation. To be involved you can: