Choose your ecospot!

The Alliance for Climate Protection challenged people from around the world to make provocative ecospots. Hundreds upon hundreds of ecospots were submitted. George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Orlando Bloom, Rihanna and the rest of the judges picked the semifinalists based on which were the most inspiring and relevant to climate change.

Now it's our turn to choose among the semifinalists' entries.

We can vote at:

http://current.com/ecospot

The top four ecospots as chosen by you, the community, will be featured in the Alliance's national campaign, broadcast internationally on Current TV and showcased on MySpace's Impact Channel. It's a great opportunity to choose an ad crucial to the Alliance's effort to change the way people think about global warming.

Solar energy? "Cool"!

When will we be able to put solar panels on our roofs? When would it become economically viable? I have started to see many changes in this area (see recent article on the San Jose Mercury News) and I wonder if my house in a couple of years will be energy self-efficient. Can you imagine? The ability to create your own energy from the sun?

I believe that in two years from today having our own energy will be “cool”, like owning a Prius was a couple of years ago.

Bloggers unite

On October 15th, bloggers will come together to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind.

In 2007 the issue is - you guessed it - the environment. Each participant blogger will post about the environment in their own individual way, relating to their own topic. The objective is to get everyone talking.

The search is on for bloggers of all nationalities and backgrounds.

To participate:

Publish on October 15th a post on your blog which relates to an issue of your choice pertaining to the environment.

Posts do not need to have any specific agenda, they simply need to relate to the larger issue in whatever way suits you and your readership.

You can also participate in Blog Action Day by posting a banner on your site or by donating your day’s blog earnings to an environmental charity of your choice.

Register your blog at

http://blogactionday.org/commit

Brrrrrrrr....

From a news wire

Naked volunteers pose for U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick on the ice-cold Swiss glacier of Aletsch near the mountain resort of Bettmeralp. Nearly 600 volunteers stripped before the camera on a melting Swiss glacier high in the Alps on Saturday as part of a publicity campaign to expose the impact of climate change.

Recycling bin in a hotel? What a concept!

Originally uploaded by Luca Penati.

I was shocked when I recently saw a recycling bin at the Ambrose Hotel in Los Angeles. What a concept! So simple yet so rare to see.

Why not all the hotels are going to do this? Why NGOs are not pushing hem to commit doing it?

If anyone knows of a petition or other ways to reach the hospitality community. Let me know!

Step 4: Switch lightbulb manufactures

Greenpeace is in high level talks with some of the world's largest lightbulb companies - asking them to stop making energy wasting lightbulbs by 2010 instead of 2015. The more customers they also hear from, the more they'll listen. Click here to sign a petition.

"The 11th Hour"