Fixing everything, really slowly

I went to a really good event on Tuesday night to launch the results from Forum for the Future’s Future leaders survey. I met several great people. One of whom, Sebastian Wood, told me about his new startup business Better Generation which advises on saving energy and generating electricity at home. They have a shop which sells energy saving light bulbs and the power saving plug I mentioned a while ago.

Great to meet people who understand there is a good business to be made from saving energy and the environment.

If like me you are always missing out on seeing your favorite bands becuase you only hear about the gig then it is in the news for selling out in 15 minutes then you need tourfilter. You give it a list of bands you like and where you live, it emails you when they tickets are on sale. It works really really well (provided you live in a city that is supported).

Check out the ical feed which lets you see the gigs in your own calendar if it supports it (try using sunbird/lightning if you don’t use iCal on Mac).

I just watched “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” on TV and it moved me almost as much as when I saw it at the Cinema. If you’ve not seen it I highly recommend you try and see it, just make sure you are in a pretty good mood before you do see it!I’m sure his life is summarised elsewhere, so I shan’t repeat it hear, but the film raises so many issues about mental illness, faith, organised religion, parenting, love, music, the music industry, American society…

It’s just really, really good.

Hmm, maybe I should stear clear of film reviews

Happy new year all!

I’ve just offset all the carbon emmisions from my flights last year (London to Florida for work, London to Madrid for work and London to Croatia for holiday). You should consider doing the same. I used carbonneutral.com and it was easy and informative. They explain it far better than I can:

www.carbonneutral.com

One single shorthaul flight produces roughly the same amount of the global warming gas as 3 months worth of driving a 1.4 litre car. And we’re all flying more.

You can’t do much about the fuel efficiency of aircraft, but if you need a holiday or if you’re travelling on business, you can help reduce your personal contribution to global warming by making your flight CarbonNeutral. That means we organise for the CO2 associated with your flight to be ‘balanced out’ by forestry and climate friendly energy projects which save equivalent amounts of CO2.

Now if I could only find the courage to claim the offset costs for the work flights