The city of Malmö is criss-crossed by canals. Loads of people ride bicycles here even in the depths of winter. This floating bike parking platform installed in a canal next to central station is a great use of space.

(The canal has frozen since I took this picture.)

This is a great reminder to everyone post the Christmas buying craze and as we head into the new year. Let 2010 be the year we reimagine and reinvent the way we live. Consumerism and the materials economy is so post-WWII. The Story of Stuff illustrates this beautifully.

Governments pander to the needs of big corporations – businesses …

The Story of Cap & Trade is a super-clear and worthy summary of the climate change issue. It highlights the role of business-as-usual in the creation of our climate problems, and the continued attempts to perpetuate the problem in the name of selfish profit – profit at the expense of the welfare of the world.

There are undeniably stupid actions being …

“At the world climate change summit, few delegates paid attention to the tale of oil’s inevitable demise” writes Jeremy Leggett of The Guardian.

Of particular interest:

Here is the bottom line. At oil prices below around $70 a barrel, producing oil becomes uneconomic in many settings today. With the oil price where it currently languishes, at less than $50 a barrel – in a market where pricing has become completely …

I have always been a firm believer in the power of personal action and responsibility when it comes to making changes. Such as trying to reduce waste. And that by making personal choices, we can influence businesses to change.

Lately I am starting to wonder if company policies should be accorded more importance than I had originally thought.

Take packaging waste for example. Food outlets in Singapore severely over-package their …

I have just returned from five blissfully quiet days in Phuket last week. This was a last minute decision in the interest of preserving my sanity, thanks to the overwhelming level of noise pollution in Singapore at the moment.

Singapore is probably the noisiest city I have ever been to. There seems to be significant construction working going on in almost every block throughout the city. At home, …

Here’s a great demonstration of using a risk management technique to make decisions when faced with uncertainties and the lack of hard facts.

It also provides an interesting take on the global warming debate. You don’t actually have to believe or disbelieve in global warming to think about the situation at hand and make a reasonable decision.

I am sure you can …

This funny and somewhat dark greenhouse calculator on the ABC’s website appealed greatly to my morbid sense of humour.

Prof. Schipinkee’s Greenhouse Calculator.

FYI I should die at age 49.1 years. Not bad. Only 11 years to go!

Spotted on The Register.

I recently walked pass a whole section in a shopping centre in Singapore selling humidifiers. This is just so “wrong”!

In case you have not been through Singapore, the temperature tends to be around the 30s (Celsius) with very high humidity. Everywhere is heavily air-conditioned. Cooled air tends to be drier, hence the humidifiers I am guessing. So strange, so illogical, and oh so human.

Air conditioners do dry out …