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undyingking) wrote2009-01-16 12:18 pm
undyingking) wrote2009-01-16 12:18 pm
Various enviro things of interest
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.
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.