14/12/2008 by admin.

As pantomine season approaches the outgoing Amercian President has been subject to an attack by a journalist throwing a shoe.  Its not our place to comment on the merits or otherwise of the gesture, but its interesting as we believe this is an indirect reminder to the most powerful individual in the world about the human footprint on this beloved Earth.  We’re also curious as Charles Lamb chose to remove his boots just prior to his first encounter with Malachi, the messenger dog… before he had to fend off the attention of those ants. Now, wasn’t there a recent story about Britain being invaded by a giant ant species?

Here’s the incident…

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX-dKpcDz8

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10/07/2008 by admin.

Liverpool, The Beatles’ home city, held its first ever Beatles day today.  As if in celebration, two significant items of Beatles related memorobilia achieved remarkable sums at a rock and pop auction at Christies in London.

Top of the Pops was the hand-painted drumskin used on the front cover of the world famous 967 album Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.  It sold for over £540,000, well in excess of the £150,000 pre-sale estimate.  The drum was designed by Sir Peter Blake. It’s regarded as arguably the most iconic image associated with The Beatles and the album cover is the most famous of all time, capturing the spirit of the Sixities. Ringo Starr summed the album with the words, “It was flower power coming into its fullest. It was love and peace…”

A close second were John Lennon’s hand written lyrics for the iconic ‘Give Peace a Chance’ which became an anthem for peace campaigners.  The lyrics reached over £420,000 - more than double the pre-sale figure.  They were written in black felt pen on a piece of white-card.  John gave the lyrics to Gail Renard a 16 year-old girl who dodged tight security at a hotel in New York to request an interview for her college magazine.

It goes without saying how significant the Lonely Hearts Club Band is to our story, and there’s flower power, of course, and Charles Lamb spoke of securing a peace between humanity and nature - no more exploitation of our world’s precious resources! Here’s the lyrics below…

As if to drum home the point, researchers say that one third of the world’s coral species are under serious threat due to pollution, coastal development, over-fishing and climate change.  These are the stark findings from the first ever global survey of its kind. The figure is alarming and the wider consequences frightening.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBgh_YmY4lU&feature=related

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31/05/2008 by admin.

More than 3,000 people campaigned today against a third runway at Heathrow airport.  They marched from Hatton Park to Sipson, the village that will be lost if the expansion goes ahead.  Campaigners say the planned expansion would have a serious impact on hundreds of thousands of homes in the area. But business groups and airlines claim the third runway is essential.  Here’s the sky news report.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=1r-nw5zGMW4

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29/05/2008 by admin.

The world’s rarest rhinoceros has been captured on film in the jungles of Java, Indonesia.  There are only 60-70 of the animals left in the wild. Curiously, the female rhino charged the camera, sending it flying. The footage provides a unique glimpse of the animal in its natural habitat.  Stephen Hogg, from WWF, who designed the hidden camera was baffled by the rhino’s attack, as they use infrared lights as illumination so as not to scare the animals away when the camera operates.  Perhaps the animal is rying to tell us something?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7424918.stm

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05/05/2008 by admin.

In recent week’s we’ve observed the troubled passage of the Olympics flame as it travels the globe ahead of the games in China this year. There have been protests against the torch bearer in Britain, America, Europe and elsewhere against the host nation’s human rights record in Tibet. 

 In response, Caleb Hitch reminded us of 3 things:

• Charles Lamb’s nightmare involving Lucy holding aloft a torch, similar to that representing the spirit of the games;
• Charles describing his training as being akin to that of an Olympiad in training; and
• Sarah’s trick with the London 2012 logo: where she transformed the shapes into one resembling a Samoyed.

What to make of it?

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03/04/2008 by admin.

The horrendous annual cull of tens of thousands of seal pups is taking place in the Gulf of St Lawrence, Canada.  The plight of the pups, clubbed to death or shot for fashion, is far worse this year due to the Arctic ice melting much sooner because of global warming - over 260,000 have estimated to have died in this way.

It brings tears to our eyes! Ben Whittenbury is fuming!  

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10/12/2007 by admin.

To mark the UN climate change conference on the Indonesian Island of Bali, environmentalists have mapped out the Earth on Kuta beach.  Its part of a day of worldwide protests to urge governments  to do more to tackle global warming.  Curious given Charles’ and Julia’s dreams involving sand and beaches. We all began our account by describing our lives as grains of sand!  Oh, is that Australia… or a heart?

Norway, the home of Yggdrasil, is in the news again. This time Al Gore is in Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.    And, is it just coincidence that his visit to the region coincided with the discovery of an ancient polar bear jawbone - the oldest known remains ever discovered at 130,000 years.   Is this another sign from Mother Nature that the time for talking on climate change is over? What we need is serious and sustained action across the globe!

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03/12/2007 by admin.

A man in a bear suit has won this year’s Turner Prize. British artist, Mark Wallinger, submitted a film called Sleeper which shows him wandering a Berlin gallery for 10 days dressed as a bear.  Although this grabbed the headlines, he was short-listed for his work State Britain which was a recreation of the London Parliament protest of an anti-war campaigner.

The award comes a no surprise to us given Ben Whittenbury’s decision to purchase a polar bear outfit and use it to protest in Trafalgar Square and use it to promote our project.  

Another amazing dinosaur discovery. This time the find still has much of its soft tissue intact! Skin, muscles and tendon rarely survive fossilisation - but they have all been preserved in a specimen unearthed in North Dakota USA.  It’s a 67 million years old Hadrosaur.  

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15/10/2007 by admin.

We’re not her to promote protest - we just report what we see.  We recently logged the arrival of the Chinese Terracotta Army to the British Museum. Well, a protester breached security to put CO2 labelled face masks on the exhibits!  The father of two did so because he was very concerned about global inaction over climate change, especially in China.  The protestor has been banned for life, but felt he had to act to help raise awareness. No damage was caused to the exhibits.

Further West, a 4 metre metal globe has been put on show at Heathrow Airport. So, it’s official - the world’s covered in a matrix of steel.

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17/09/2007 by admin.

More monkey business - remember the escaped orangutan and the motorbike; well another monkey - this time a Simian from India caused mayhem when it forced the closure of the VIP lounge at New Dehli Airport.  The departure lounge was partly closed for up to an hour.

So - is nature trying to tell us something about our use of fossil fuels?

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