Continuing with giant theme for today is a new website by the BBC that allows you to superimpose events, places and things on different parts of the world to compare scale. Want to see how big the Glastonbury Festival would be in Guernsey, or scale of Pakistan’s floods? How Big Really allows you to do that and truly appreciate the scale. I think it works particularly well in Guernsey due to our small size and clear geographic boarders
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Pylons draping their power-lines across the landscape is not something we have to worry about in Guernsey, but if we did I’d want ours to look like these. Still at the conceptual stage I’m not sure they’ll ever get made — there must be a lot of structural and performance considerations — but I think someone should try.
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I found these interesting shots of Ixtapaluca in Mexico city. Unfortunately I could not understand what the website was saying, but think the images speak for themselves. Imagine trying to find your house.
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Artist Elisabeth Buecher has invented a shower curtain that cuts short your shower after four minutes, to save energy and water. The curtain has inflatable spikes that fill with air after four minutes, nudging the user out of the shower. ‘Spiky’ the curtain also has a cousin, which inflates to trap you inside the shower as a sweaty punishment for your water waste.
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Guernsey Gas, in partnership with Sure CW, is sponsoring intrepid Channel Island adventurers Steve Wright and Simon Elmont on their Spring 09 expedition across Greenland — a trip designed to raise awareness of important environmental issues to school children in Alderney, Sark and Guernsey (through interactive experiments, devised by the students themselves), as well as charitable fund raising in aid of Motor Neurone Disease (for full details, visit greenland09.com).
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Betley Whitehorne and Guernsey Gas have launched Greener Guernsey, a website dedicated to helping you save energy, money and the environment. With global warming becoming an ever bigger topic the time to act is now. You may feel that you can’t do much to help but even small changes can help make a big difference if we all get involved.
Packed full of useful tips and great offers the site is well worth a look. For instance, did you know that simply fitting the correct heating controls in your home could reduce your energy bill by up to 15%.
For tips, offers and advice visit Greener Guernsey.
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An extraordinary piece of architecture and engineering, this 80 story building scheduled for completion in 2010 should really make people think differently. The tower, located in Dubai, will house 20 floors of retail space, 15 floors for an extravagant hotel and the remaining floors for residential apartments with the top 10 floors set aside for luxury villas of up to 12,900 square feet in size.
Designed by Italian architect Dr. David Fisher the tower will rotate to benefit from the sun and adapt to the wind. It even generates it’s own energy by cleverly integrating 79 wind turbines between floors and using photovoltaic cells on the roof of each floor.
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I like this on many levels. Not just because it’s a clever way of demonstrating the effects of global warming and certainly not because it’s in a location which means that only a few will ever see it. For me it doesn’t really matter, the PR generated from creating something original must make it worth while? After all traffic to their site has gone up 300%.
The ad, created by Ogilvy & Mather, for HSBC’s global warming initiative features a giant aerial photo of New York.
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Guernsey is nearly devoid of large scale outdoor advertising. Is there demand or a requirement for outdoor advertising? Would it benefit local businesses or be an eye sore that spoils our island home?
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