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03 Sep 2008
Under the GINfluence...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
At Futerra Towers we always like to keep abreast of the latest eco-thinking and our good mate 'The Gin Lady's' blog is a great example. Not just inspired by a bit of juniper-laden and maternal..
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27 Aug 2008
Thermageddon anyone?
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
We spend a lot of out time talking climate change lingo, words that work or indeed 'Words that sell'. This week I did a short interview with BBC Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth' programme which was explori..
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18 Aug 2008
Rhetoric and what's right...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
It's sobering to realise how feeble most of the orators of today are in comparison to the greats of yesteryear. I received an email today from Kate at ContaminantMedia which had the following Martin..
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06 Aug 2008
'Ain't gettin' on no plane fool'
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
More cross-blogging fun...the 'sane and rational' Mr Michael O'Leary gave a frankly mental interview the other day which I have blogged about here. To paraphrase the words of the inimitable 'Mr T(re..
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04 Aug 2008
Let's go fly a kite!
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Remember building your first kite out of bits of bamboo and binbags? Remember attempting to get it airborne in scarcely a breath of wind, your younger brother repeatedly hurling the crude contraptio..
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15 Jul 2008
Up, up and away...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...in my beautiful, my beautiful balloon! Oh yes, continuing the musical theme that no blog shall be posted without a suitably apt song lyric (preferably involving some form of pun) here's a link to..
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11 Jul 2008
Flooded London...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
The geniuses at Squint Opera have produced some astonishing images of London in 2090, a post climate change flooded city where cathedrals have become municipal swimming pools, fishermen cast their r..
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11 Jul 2008
The rise of 'lagom'
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Now what the hell is 'lagom' I hear you ask? Has Ed finally lost it? No (well not entirely at least), it's a rather apt Swedish word apparently (and the name of the rather splendid pattern in the pi..
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01 Jul 2008
Happiness is a warm yurt...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...and I've just spent a glorious weekend learning traditional Mongolian construction techniques and practising poor innunendo (...five long, hot, sweaty hours of erection in the woods etc etc) duri..
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25 Jun 2008
Ladies night...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...oh yes it's ladies night and the feelings right oh yes it's ladies night (oh what a night!). So sang Kool and the Gang way back in 1979 in their classic floor-filling favourite track of louche lo..
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17 Jun 2008
More airship joy...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Lazy-arsed or time-stressed? Either way, I am cheekily cross-linking between blogs here to draw attention to more airship joy that I stumbled upon this week...check out my other blog www.lowcar..
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06 Jun 2008
Blimp me up Scotty...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Oh yes...my airship fantasies (I am that type of geek) received a boost yesterday when I read this http://tinyurl.com/4kq4mo in the Guardian about the imminent return of Zeppelin's to our skies. the..
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05 Jun 2008
Age of Stupid?
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Went along to a sneaky preview of this new climate change movie yesterday and came out feeling as if my heart-strings had been plucked by the nimble fingers of a Spanish guitarist...it's a retrospec..
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20 May 2008
Biofuel reggae...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
Gotta love this wee skanking ditty, an unexpectedly upbeat contribution to the current 'food vs fuel' controversy surrounding corn ethanol and the like, and I bet you never thought you'd feel like b..
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19 May 2008
Climate change cartoon...
Posted by: Ed Gillespie
...a bit of creative genius from Private Eye. Never mind the climate cataclysm how much is my house worth?!
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