Carnival of the Green # 58+

We checked our calendar, it’s already the last week before Christmas, and yet we’ve got a pre-present from Santa Clauss. Cocolico is welcoming the Carnival of the Green, the weekly marathon of green weblogs. If you just stumble on this event, imagine a giant relay from blog to blog, giving them a weekly tribune to show their activity and attract some insights on various topics related to sustainable development. The Treehugger blog orchestrates the festival, and if you want to be part of the chain, check the conditions. Last week, the Carnival stopped at Organic Authority, a magazine focused on organic foods and gardening. The next time, in two weeks, the host will be Hippy Shopper, a product blog.

Now here’s a kind of state of the planet made out by bloggers who recently submitted their posts to the Carnival: - New Zealand dished up a new energy plan, containing seven points to slow down polluting emissions in the country without impacting the energy supply. As it turns out, the plan is solid but banks on the ‘market’ to work out. And sometimes, especially for the sustainable development, wishing the eco-conscious of the market hasn’t proved to be the best way to fulfill the Kyoto protocol.

• Too much waste on air. Triple Pundit, one of the Carnival founders, fired on collateral waste generated by airliners. Too much cans wiped away. Too much plastic cups, glass, magazines, not recycled. As aerial transportation becomes mainstream, it’s the time to start thinking about this.

• AltCarExpo Parade. They are sweet, full of smart innovations, and above that, they’re using renewable energies.

• Humantide rants about the social cohesion in the UK. “Politicians wonder why the ordinary public are becoming increasingly alienated from the political process. If they want to find the answers why, they do not have far to look.” The rich get richer, the poor gets poorer. It’s not a law, but a doomed panorama of what is going on in many countries. But if nothing is done, although propositions for a fairer world exists, democratic republics will imploded.

• High IQ children more likely to become vegetarian — and time to move on MacDonald’s. the intriguing study points out that smarter kids understand they should consider vegetarian foods to keep low their cholesterol levels, and risks of obesity. But those kids eat chicken or fish.

• Inconvenient truth; convenient countermeasures. Ben has watched ‘The Inconvenient Truth’ documentary, and seems to be mixed about Al Gore’s claims, sometimes exaggerated. But he asks consumers for more common sense, points out potential savings coming from better energy uses and so on. Still in that way, Victoria Everman doesn’t miss an important point: What we wear reflects what we think. “Though we all want our clothes to look good and fit our body well, worker conditions are just as important as your outfit’s fabrics,” she said in an article for Sustainable Style Foundation. We deeply agrees with her.

• “Darfur Diaries” is another fantastic way to use modern medias to cover a terrible civil war that still occurs in Darfur, Sudan. Embarked on a mission to a part of the world they’d scarcely heard of before, three young activists made a movie based on interviews they got during the crisis. The results is beautiful, emotionally charged, and illustrated by kid drawings.

• [Ethical options for Christmas] is made by Juliet Wilson. She made a compilation of ecofriendly gifts for the end of the year. So does Great Green Goods with their selection of Menorah candle holder, Green Fertility with Kiva microloans.