Rather than going to the Osa Peninsula Rainforest, Cobwebs and Seaslug’s donations and money will go to the Amazon from this point on. This decision means that more rainforest will be protected. Conservation International is protecting the Amazon.

A sixteen-year old secondary school student discovered a way to make plastic decompose faster. Before this breakthrough, plastic supposedly took a thousand years to decompose although we knew what factors made them decompose faster. Learn more.

Friday (the day before yesterday) was sports day at my school. I got to be in every activity I wanted to be in except the marathon.  I was in the beanbag target toss, the 60m relay, the balloon popping relay (where you run up, put the balloon on a chair and sit on it till it pops), the dress up relay (where you put on funny clothes, run to the next person, and take them off). It was really fun(ny). I was on the Green Americas team. We won!  I got a lot of sunburns, though, from lying in the grass for hours watching the annual grad vs. staff softball game.

Yesterday my family and I went on a long bike ride around Stanley Park. We passed a very neat playground with lots of stuff to climb and I hope we can go back there sometime. I am currently working on letters to Gordon Campbell and Kevin Falcon, as well as spearheading the Junk for Sustainability project at my school.

Tomorrow is sports day and it will be really fun. Then after the three day weekend, my school has a pro-d on Tuesday, so I am really looking forward to a fun school day and then a four day weekend.

Today I discovered the <!–nextpage–> feature of WordPress while Naiya was randomly typing onto our class blog. It will probably be really useful for separating long pages.

On second thought, I like long pages because it’s kinda neat to see how much stuff I put by how tiny the scroll bar is.

I have been caught up with my school work so much that I have had no time at all to blog or research for Cobwebs and Seaslugs. My teacher keeps pressuring us that she’s working on the report cards (which pressures me especially because I want to get into a mini enriched highschool program and I need a great grade 6 report card). One of the projects we have to do was a book for grade 1, 2, and 3 level called Water, Water, Everywhere that is all about water. I incorporated some environmental stuff into it and will post a downloadable PDF in the kid’s zone as soon as the technical difficulties subside.

On a totally different subject, I got a new bike a few weeks ago and it is really awesome. It’s a 21-speed with24 inch wheels. This is a big jump for me because the last bike I had had wheels no bigger than 13 inches, only one gear, and only one (broken) handbrake.

Recently, I have been reading an interesting and inspiring book called Bucky Works: Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today. Mostly it is about sustainable architecture, however there are the odd car design and transportation ideas scattered throughout the book in an organized, sequential manner. A lot of the structures discussed in the book are domes. One thing that particularly interested me was the idea of a “cloud nine” city, a city inside a transparent geodesic sphere about a mile in diameter, which floats like a giant hot-air balloon when the air inside the sphere is at least one degree warmer than the air outside the sphere. This concept seems plausible enough, but my understanding is that nobody has ever tried it to prove it possible or not so. Anyway, it is a very absorbing book and I recommend it to anyone who is into inventing or sustainable architecture.