Yesterday I saw a cool TED talk about biomimicry. People have made chlorophyll powered solar cells which are not only way cheaper than today’s typical silicon solar cells but more efficient and more environmental. Lots of other neat breakthroughs are being inspired by nature. I am looking forward to pursuing this topic further and making a page on sustainable technologies as well.

A new version of Scratch came out a little while ago and I thought of a cooler looking and easier to program way to make a Carbon Footprint Calculator, and also more accurate. Instead of saying it calculates your carbon footprint, I will say it calculates your ‘greenness’. Instead of arranging the questions in a typical and boring checkbox format I will have each question spin out in a much more exciting way. The program will probably take a month to finish considering how busy I am right now but I may release a beta version before that.

I was reading a book on the earth’s forseesble future, and found the statistics very depressing. I put down the book and decided I would read it when I was in a better mood to aquire such informantion. When would that be? Not anytime in my forseesble future. If I’m in a good mood, it would turn rotten. If I’m in a rotten mood…

When knowing what is happening to the planet and it’s ecosystems is so depressing to me (and I deal with depressing environmental  information a lot, by the way) thatI would prefer to remain ignorant (which is never common), I think that something is very, very wrong. Yeah I know that one species is extinct approximately every 45 minutes. I never thought to calculatethat about 60,000 species of animals are extinct every year. That’s just animals. Can you imagine a whole race of creatures dissapearing, just like that? Now can you imagine about 6o,ooo whole species dissapearing in just a year? For that matter, can you imagine thousands of glaciers melting many, many tons of ice every minute? Can you imagine a football field of rainforest being burned every second? How many is that per year? 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 football fields of rainforest are burned every year. That’s 31,536,000 football fields. 196, 223, 999,930 meters squared. It is difficult to read that number, let alone imagine it.

I am not trying to depress anyone,  but when human being’s destruction of th earth, our only home, is so vast our own minds cannot comprehend it, something seriously needs to change.

Get your rainforest saving sustainability superhero boxes ready!

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It’s funny, but I am having a hard time trying to find a superhero costume. Someone seems to have the notion that only 7 and 8-year-old boys want to be superheros for Halloween, and that most of them want muscly costumes which I certainly don’t.

What do you think about the South Fraser Perimeter Road? Should it continue? Why not? Comment on this post and your answers will contribute to solving this problem.

For information on the SFPR, click here.

Thanks for your effort to save Delta,  save the people and save the bog.