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

[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.