Rediscovering an evironmental conscience
As everyone frets over rising oil prices affecting their driving freedom, or scrambling to find non carbon-based energy sources to power our cities and industries, the poor airline industry, with man’s lumbering metal birds of the sky, have been left white knuckled with fear (or maybe its just their passengers?) wondering how to fly without [...]
Sooo… An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s much acclaimed slide-show turned documentary about global warming is to become an opera. Milan’s La Scala opera house announced this week that they had commissioned Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli to write an opera which will debut in Milan in 2011. Battistelli’s previous opera’s have been inspired by Shakespeare, [...]
It’s always fascinated us at The Dappled Planet that in recent years, British environmentalists would go storming to the government and demand taxes be placed on aeroplanes and cars because they emit carbon dioxide which is contributing to global warming. They demanded nothing in return and so the government was rather delighted to actually be [...]
Picture this if you will… The ground is a pale pink colour speckled with warm shades of brown. 10ft away from you a gentle fine mist of gas blasts up into the black skies above. The sun’s heat, an unheard high at minus 235 celcius gently beats down on you and your partner. Ah… A [...]
Have you caught a plane flight in recent times and thought it seemed to be taking just a little longer to get there? Well, it turns out, it really is! Some of the American airlines have admitted that they have been listening to all the people who tell us to drive slower, it saves more [...]
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