Put The Cove on your radar

Picked this up today from Patagonia's excellent Cleanest Line blog. Sign up to follow The Cove on  Facebook and Twitter to find out when the screenings are going to be in the UK. And find out more about where your fish comes from.

Finding a globally understood language

Improv colleague Belina Raffy posted this onto the AIN website. Bobby McFerrin demonstrates a language that can be understood in every culture and country in which he has 'spoken' it.

Maybe it's time for us to find the equivalent of the pentatonic scale for climate and sustainability. What would the intervals be?

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

Youth get a seat at the table

I'm feeling increasingly optimistic about the role that young people are playing in the change game for climate and sustainability, after a few years of hoping for more. In addition to the excellent progress and impact that organisations such as the Otesha Project and the UK's Youth Climate Coalition are making in a wide area, there are calls to give the young people of the world a constitional seat at the COP 15 talks in December. Wales' Climate Change Commission has a seat for the Government's youth climate champions, and today WorldWatch reported that the Indian government has committed to the same route, which could make a big impact on countries with young population.

Indian Government Opens Youth Climate Debate

India's government has set a new international standard for engaging youth on climate policy. In an unprecedented gesture, the Ministry of Environment and Forests invited the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) to comment on the government's climate change regulations, writes Worldwatch India Fellow Anna da Costa.

Read: Indian Government Opens Climate Debate to Youth

Do Lectures on Treehugger

With the first of the Do Lectures starting one month tomorrow, media interest is hotting up about the eagerly-awaited 2009 talks. The UK's leading sustainable travel organisation, Sustrans, signed up as the first of our Founding NGO Partners yesterday and will be sending messages on the lectures to their extensive and active membership. Corporate Founding Partners will be finalised in the next 10 days or so.

Leonora Oppenheim, wrote about the Do Lectures being a 'Glastonbury for the mind' - which is good description of the great buzz about the event, coupled with a bit of excellent music and many late nights. Read the Treehugger article here

The times they are a changin'

Sell2Wales is the Welsh Government's procurement portal. The features on it are usually what you'd expect, written in pretty standard language; this one caught my eye, and shows that someone in Newport is thinking of the bigger picture, and should be recognised for it:

"Newport City Council (hereinafter referred to as "the Council") invites tenders for the removal and relocation of equipment from the existing Bettws High School to the newly built Newport High School, on the same site and to provide Ethical clearance of all surplus equipment"