Well its been a busy old time...

The last few weeks have been crazy. I have been frantically preparing for a Video Horse Racing Night which I held on the 22nd July @ The Grasshopper in Poole. Thank you to everyone who made it a success. Together we raised over £475, which is enough to break my target for the Everest Base Camp Trek. We've now raised enough to change the lives of 200 people. In the coming 17 weeks leading up to the Trek I will be concentrating on my training schedule and as we get closer to the date I'll be training 8 hours a day over the weekends while also maintaining 3 gym sessions a weeks and some brisk walks at lunchtime. Damn I'll be hungry! :)

The Politicians can only facilitate - We must all make the change

Politics can only implement the necessary economic instruments to facilitate environmental improvements. In the end it is up us to implement to the changes required if this civilisation is to carry on. Civilisations rise and fall that is certain. Change must be made by individuals, only then will it work.

'Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish caught, will we realise that we cannot eat money'

In a continued quest to minimise my carbon footprint and literally 'Change the world now' I've bought a new eco-car - well the best I could get with my money. After debating with my housemate Matt, I finally came round to the idea that diesel does actually have lower Carbon Dioxide emissions than LPG. My second-hand Vauxhall Corsa (53 plate) does 64MPG, cost 50 quid a year to tax, runs on Diesel and has a 1.3 engine.

After a ongoing ordeal with my previous car insurer (HSBC) I’ve also decided to change my insurance cover to to CO-OPs ‘eco-insurance’. Which costs me no extra than my existing insurer – a bonus!

Ecoinsurance is the UK's first car insurance policy to help offset some of my car's CO_2. and the CO-OP is the UK's only insurance provider with a customer-led Ethical Engagement Policy.

My third latest development has been a change in electricity supplier. Thanks to the ‘green’ mailing list I’m on at work, I found out about a new supplier which only generates 100% sustainable electricity (mainly from wind farms).

Forget the politics about nuclear power folks! If you really want alternatives then invest in them by changing supplier. Now there is no extra cost there really is no excuse. Log on to www.ecotricity.co.uk and change today. In fact if you can’t figure it out I’ll even help you, just drop me a email.

Our new electricity supplier – Ecotricity - costs no-extra!

YES – 100% sustainable electricity at NO EXTRA COST! The is no-excuse.

Professor Lock, Environmental scientist tells us to "Wake up" "the Earth is truely in danger"

"In January 2004, Sandy [his wife] and I were invited to the Hadley Centre in Exeter [part of the UK Met Office], and that visit made us both aware of the deadly seriousness of the Earth's condition," Professor Lovelock told the BBC News website.

"We discussed the rapid melting of ice floating on the Arctic Ocean, and the way that Greenland's glaciers are vanishing. We talked about global heating in the tropics and the threat to the forests there, and about the response of the great boreal forests of Siberia and Canada to climate change.

"It was a deeply gloomy picture; but for me the gloomiest of all things was the detached, almost academic, air with which the grim predictions were presented - almost as if we were discussing some other planet, not the Earth."

Professor Lovelock intends The Revenge of Gaia to be a "wake-up call" tospread awareness that "the Earth is truly in danger".

Source: Global Warming: Crisis for Earth?