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From the great minds at Environmental Defense and the Blue Green Alliance

Alaska Magazine

The gals over at Alaska Magazine called me a few weeks back to let me know that they had used one of my recent Bristol Bay salmon fishing images for the cover. They also decided to use another picture to open the feature article for their 2009 fishing issue. Exciting stuff! Its fantastic to see this image being put to great use when it comes from such an important fishery - long live salmon, not Pebble Mine!

Paddling Adverts

A couple of adverts for Wilderness Systems below. Go paddle!

Wilderness Systems

Wilderness Systems kayaks launched their new website recently. It has some great new features on the site like a Community section and Resources page to find out cool places to go paddling. I also worked with Wilderness Systems at the end of last year to create some new imagery, so check out the photos as you navigate the site!

Darwin's Birthday

Darwin would have been 200 years old today. Tip of the hat and gracious salutations to one of the most important scientists to of walked the earth. Two articles/postings below. Definitely worth a read whether your a photographer, scientist, human being or just eager to evolve.

1. Chase Jarvis' usual great stuff in this post

2. One of the most impressive and eloquent scientists currently walking the earth Dr. Carl Safina wrote a fascinating and progressive essay in the New York Times - Darwin Must Die So That Evolution May Live

Moments in Baja

A round up of a recent trip to Baja, Mexico. We peddled our way down 450 miles of the southern Baja Peninsula, slept under millions of bright stars at night, among cactus galore and ate fresh, delicious food the whole way! And, we didn't get run over by any trucks... just.

The Future is Bright! The Future is Green: 20 ECOVATIONS

A very interesting article on the Guardian Newspaper website - "20 Big Green Ideas"

There are some very cool and exciting ideas listed in Lucy Siegels article and I included a couple of my favourites below:

8. The world community grid

In a nutshell: Your computer does ethical stuff in the background.

The clever bit: The considerable spare capacity of our home computers is used to make lighter work of some of humanity's most important calculations. The idea is simple: while you use a fraction of your machine's capacity to go about mundane stuff, IBM's World Community Grid runs calculations in the background pertaining to molecular mechanics in order to find the next generation of solar cells for Harvard University. Alone, it is estimated, it would take Harvard's department of chemistry and molecular biology computers some 22 years to do the necessary calculations for the Clean Energy Project, but using our spare computer capacity, researchers hope this can be reduced to a matter of two years. Already nearly half a million users have installed the simple software and signed up (worldcommunitygrid.org) to perform calculations that their owners could never understand.

I love this next one, pure innovation, an power back in the hands of us, the public.

10. Carrotmobbing

In a nutshell: Don't boycott – procott instead.

The clever bit: "The problem is that businesses will do anything for money," says 27-year-old US environmentalist Brent Schulkin. "But what if that's also the solution?" In order to find out, Schulkin approached 23 liquor and grocery stores in his San Francisco neighbourhood and asked what percentage of a day's takings each was prepared to invest in energy-efficiency improvements in return for him organising a "mob" of shoppers to visit the store. The rather unprepossessing K&D Market won the bidding with 22%. Using the internet, Schulkin publicised the scheme, then nervously waited to see if any shoppers would turn up. They did. A huge K&D carrotmob spent about $9,000 in two hours, breathing life into the old corporate-social-responsibility adage that corporations with values can translate this into cold, hard cash. Schulkin appears to have hit on a form of activism that could have mass appeal. Ultimately he wants to create carrotmobs so big that they can negotiate with some of the globe's biggest corporations.

You can read the rest of the article here.