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Happy New Year ! С Новым годом!

To everyone ! 

Wish you all the best for 2010 ! 

 

Green Writers wanted!

Want to take action, want to write for green ... Have a look at the site GreenMuze and their writers' guidelines.

More there

Climate change: the campaign of tcktcktck

"I'm sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic climate change ... we didn't."

This is what you can see on some of the billboards done by Greenpeace and Tcktcktck

Patagonia Wetsuits in their Online Catalog.

Patagonia just launched it's Full online catalog, dedicated to Surf. 

In this catalog you can see videos, and more info about the Patagonia Wetsuits (which I haven't tested yet, as I couldn't buy one in France). 

Nice Catalog, nice design. The pictures are great and they do not use paper. See more about this initiative on the Cleanest Line

 More about the EDF here

One minute to save the world !

Take one minute, and save the world !

http://www.1minutetosavetheworld.com/

Post it, share it, and take action now !

The earth hour !

Vote for environment !

USA : Vote for environment !

Patagonia in engaged in the elections in the USA. 
Read this file (click to download it) (in French), to know more about it, or go to votetheenvironment.org.
If you are an American citizen please take action !

(picture from Patagonia website).

About Global Warming

Seen on Ruminations on Russia :

Last month, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, shrugged off manmade climate change as “a drop in the bucket.” Showing that solar activity has entered an inactive phase, Prof. Sorokhtin advised people to “stock up on fur coats.”

He is not alone. Kenneth Tapping of our own National Research Council, who oversees a giant radio telescope focused on the sun, is convinced we are in for a long period of severely cold weather if sunspot activity does not pick up soon.

The last time the sun was this inactive, Earth suffered the Little Ice Age that lasted about five centuries and ended in 1850. Crops failed through killer frosts and drought. Famine, plague and war were widespread. Harbours froze, so did rivers, and trade ceased.

It’s way too early to claim the same is about to happen again, but then it’s way too early for the hysteria of the global warmers, too.

This is quite interesting, but the real conclusion of all these news about the climate is :

Be prepare for changes ! Which ones ? It looks like no one really know, but there will be some !

Luxury and green industry process

While I was attending the Moscow supreme Luxury conference, organized by the International Herald Tribune (yes, it's far from surfing in Hawaii or Climbing in Fontainebleau, I know), I noticed that there is a real concern about the environment and the production processes in the Luxury Industry.
It's really good to hear this, and also it's funny to see that Patagonia was really a pioneer in front of brands who have been created almost centuries ago, and so, in some ways, Patagonia may appear as a luxury brand, if we take this criteria into account :-) which may be surprising.
On one hand, it's really good to see that the planet protection is a concern for all these rich people, even if it's hard to say if it's a reality in their mind or only a way to be fashion.
On the other hand, there is a strong risk that these brands use the "green" label as a luxury criteria, and I am definitely puzzled by this, because, ethical and ecological questions are not for the happy-few and it should be a global reflexion at all the levels of societies.
Let's follow up all these ideas and words for the next conference, because Suzy Menkes mentioned several times the idea of having a stronger part about ethical fashion in the next event.
To be continued then ...

Note : if I was there, it was for the launch of a website dedicated to luxury stuff in Russia : www.leluxe.ru.

Auctions for a better planet : 1% auctions

If you are ready to buy a surfboard, the Jack Johnson's guitar, surf lessons, and in the same time, make a good move for the planet, then go there.

I think the one hour helicopter flight is not the best example in the list, because it does not look as a 100% green activity.
I prefer the "One Day Wilderness Survival Clinic with Adventure Out Owner Cliff Hodges"  or the "1% FTP Custom Longboard from Firewire Surfboards"

It's Christmas time, so make a gift, and go green.