Various enviro things of interest

[undyingking]

Landshare -- Hugh Fairly-Wattlesquidge is behind this scheme, to put together people who have spare land with people who want to grow stuff. I particularly like the idea of being a Landspotter -- you get to spy on people's underused gardens and report them to the Channel 4 commissars.

Instead of Heathrow -- collecting suggestions for what might be better than building a third runway there. So far they are all depressingly sensible (apart, arguably, from the maglev one).

Cambridge Cycling Campaign -- their website includes this excellent route planner, including a slideshow of photos taken along the route. Useful if you get lost (and have mobile internet...).

A year of OSM edits -- (not strictly enviro, but hey) -- fun animation of the edits added to Open Street Map during 2008. It took me a little while to realize why the open sequence looked strangely familiar, and then I realized that it's Ipswich! (East Anglia generally seems to be quite a hotbed of OSMing.) Some stills from it gathered here, which are a bit easier to peer at.

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Landshare sounds an excellent scheme.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

"Instead of Heathrow" is a thoroughly bizarre concept. It seems to take the view that there's a bunch of spare money burning a hole in the government's pocket so they've decided to build a runway.

I find this kind of thing immensely frustrating, because it gives the impression that all opposition to runway three is from hopeless airheads who don't have the first clue why the runway is considered so vital by its advocates.

If there's one thing worse than losing a debate on a critical issue it's not even getting to have the debate. :-/

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Mm, good point. You should post there saying that!

[kirian.livejournal.com]

Hugh Fairly-Wattlesquidge? Is that a real name?

...Why is no-one else asking this here? I am just too immature to let this go, obviously.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

It's his canonical name in our house, for reasons lost in the mists of time...

[kirian.livejournal.com]

OH! Phew! I don't know whether to feel stupid or not, but at least that isn't a real name :o)

Great name btw.