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Category Archives: Environment

Gorilla Protection – brilliant and authentic use of blogging

http://www.wildlifedirect.org/blogAdmin/gorilla This blog has up to date information from the field about the Wildlife Direct charity’s work to protect gorillas and other wildlife in Africa. It’s a brilliant use of blogging to support fund-raising, and to help people see what their money is buying. There’s video too. Whenever I’m talking to businesses about blogging, it [...]

WWF – throwing the web 2.0 kitchen sink at saving the planet

I received an email today inviting me to help save the tiger by contributing a photo to an online tiger mosaic that WWF are building. When I got to the site and had uploaded my photo (which was of an actual tiger, by the way), I had a look around and it’s amazing how much [...]

Greenhouse gas negationism

Andy Hobsbawm’s article about progress and change, good and bad, reminded me of some conversations I’ve had recently that have left me speechless. Some very intelligent people whose opinions I respect, have been telling me that there isn’t really any proof that humans are causing global warming. As I understand it (from this article which [...]