Drowning New York

Nice advertising gimmick: HSBC Bank used advertising agency Oglivy & Mather in Mumbai to promote their website, www.globalwarmingsolutions.co.in, which is designed to draw public attention to global warming (I doubt though the site will contribute much to eliminating the bank’s bad ecological and other karma constantly created by its business behaviour). Anyway, the ad agency placed a bird’s eye view of [...]

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gOS – move towards eliminating cumbersome operating systems

Engadget reported that Good OS yesterday introduced “Cloud”, a new iteration of gOS, at the Netbook World Summit in Paris. Following up from its first version “Rocket” almost a year ago, Cloud looks quite impressive. “Arriving pre-installed alongside Windows on the new Gigabyte touchscreen netbooks (perhaps some variant of the M912V), the new SplashTop-esque OS uses a web browser [...]

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Geo-engineering – blocking the sky to save the earth

The image below conveys some cringing discomfort. Ge-engineering seems like the old technology fix approach that got us and the planet in trouble in the first place. Sequestering CO2 in deep-ocean trenches as dry ice slurry, space-based mirror arrays, artificial CO2 absorbing trees, ships burning sulphur (to increase cloud cover) and spreading iron oxide across [...]

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The homegrown revolution – urban farming

There are parts in me that recoil a bit from the sprinkled-in bits of American culture (like the TV reporter’s gooey superficiality), the romantic yet ‘primitive’ hippie-roots lifestyle and certainly the drudgery of gardening (for example battling pests or droughts or committing to the huge amount of establishment work when the [...]

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