Published by Zander February 24th, 2007
in Bloody Cool!, Photos, Good Times.. and Travel.
I just returned from a week’s Snowboarding with my wonderful girlfriend, Alice. We went to Alpe D’Huez in the French Alps, we stayed in the the Hotel L’Ancolie in Huez village which was nice..and cheap and away from all the tourists, a definate plus!
These stills are all taken with my Nikon D70 with either my 18-70mm or my 70-300mm lens, they are a few of the literally tens that I took and the only ones worth showing off. Let me know what you think..
Ski Holiday: £200 ish
Aviators: £80
Old 80’s Ski Jacket: £12
Receiving absolutely no weird looks for this brilliant get-up: Priceless!
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Published by Marte February 10th, 2007
in News.
By Steve Connor, Science Editor, Independant
Published: 09 February 2007
Sir Richard Branson is raising his game as “saviour of the planet” by announcing a multimillion-pound prize for the best way of removing thousands of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The prize - expected to be in the range of £10m - will go to the originator of the most convincing invention for actively absorbing and storing the principal man-made gas in the atmosphere responsible for global warming.
Sir Richard has drawn up a distinguished panel of judges to oversee the prize including James Lovelock, the inventor of the Gaia theory; James Hansen, the Nasa researcher who first warned the US government of climate change, and Tim Flannery, the Australian zoologist and explorer.
The competition is based on the idea of the $10m X-prize for the first privately-built, reusable aircraft that could fly into “space” - defined as 100km above ground - twice in one week. The X-prize was awarded in 2004.
The irony of basing an environment prize for absorbing carbon dioxide on a prize for releasing the gas in the fastest way possible will not be lost on many environmentalists who want to curb the unnecessary use of fossil fuel rather than relying on untried and unproven technological fixes for global warming.
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