An unwanted jigsaw puzzle

Pushed from the branches


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Lunch time means I have goodies for you!

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3D house numbers made out of solid concrete:

http://www.magazin.com/Produkt/189412/1445828/0/HausnummerConcrete.html?articleId=709&idx=0

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Hotel in a bag! Cool

http://www.magazin.com/Produkt/0/1446305/Taschenhotel.html


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I am so into this "Learn Something New Everyday" site. YES!

Did you know that humans share about 50% DNA with....drumroll please....BaNaNaS?


http://www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk/

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Perfect gift for the Helvetica obsessed .....:::cough cough:::

http://www.dadadastudio.eu/shop/?i=29

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Google Dashboard...know what Google knows about YOU


http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/google-privacy-dashboard/

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Seed Magazine has a slide show of images from No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale, including tiny little insect robots and mysterious sea creatures.


http://seedmagazine.com/slideshow/no_small_matter/

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Cookie heaven?


http://elsylee.com/

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I was to tell you all about Eaarth, by Bill McKibben. [not a typo]

We're publishing it in April and I read it over the weekend. It...is...shocking.

Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we’ve waited too long, and that massive change is not only unavoidable but already under way. Our old familiar globe is suddenly melting, drying, acidifying, flooding, and burning in ways that no human has ever seen. We’ve created, in very short order, a new planet, still recognizable but fundamentally different. We may as well call it Eaarth.

On April 13, 2010, a week before the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, Times Books will publish EAARTH: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben —a manifesto on the new economic and cultural realities on a changed planet and suggestions for the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure.

That new planet, Eaarth is filled with new binds and traps. A changing world costs large sums to defend—think of the money that went to repair New Orleans, or the trillions it will take to transform our energy systems. But the endless economic growth that could underwrite such largesse depends on the stable planet we’ve managed to damage and degrade. We can’t rely on old habits any longer.

McKibben argues that our hope depends on scaling back—on building the kind of societies and economies that can hunker down, concentrate on essentials, and create the kind of community (in the neighborhood, but also on the Internet) that will allow us to weather trouble on a scale humans have never seen before. Change—fundamental change—is our best hope on a planet suddenly and violently out of balance.

Bill McKibben is the author of The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, and Deep Economy. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont (woot!) with his wife and their daughter.

Bill McKibben brings a much needed sense of urgency to the issue of climate change and offers his advice on how we can build rewarding lives in this new reality. As Barbara Kingsolver asserts, “Read it, please. Whatever else you were planning to do next, nothing could be more important.”

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On that note, READ IT IN APRIL. Ok, back to work!

xo