Under-reported news and global concerns by the one they call Bicyclemark, a podcasting Portuguese-American, radical, activist-journalist, and media hacker; in Amsterdam.
Eating green bean soup (made my mom’s style) and discussing Barcamp Munich in October, VlogEurope Budapest in November, and the larger issue of California’s Agriculture ceasing to produce significantly in the coming decades. That according to several reports about the environmental impacts of the large scale farming going on in certain regions of CA, as well as the global food market which will leave the state an unviable place in terms of costs and profit. But this is just the initial glance, more research and reporting to come…
This video entry is to explain some recent goings-on as well as tell about a good friend who gave up growing a green lawn in suburbia. Around the same time he was telling me this, I had also visited the Jersey shore where there were reports of an dangerous explosion in the Jelly Fish population. The causes? Nitrogen from all the fertilizers people use on their lawns that washes into the ocean. Another cause, warm water from the Oyster Bay nuclear power plant nearby.
My focus here is more on the fertilizer and energy wasted on lawn care versus the price we pay collectively for the damage done to the environment. This situation was very well illustrated by a recent edition of On Point from NPR. Wherever you live, I encourage you to stop watering the lawn, stop fertilizing, take a stand in your everyday life and change this rediculous and dangerous suburban tradition.
Im still getting over jetlag and settling in here in the US. In the meantime here is a video entry recorded in Cambodia last month. It features my visit to the killing fields and the s21 torture prison.
Going back a few days, this vlog entry is from my first day in Cambodia. It includes footage from my arrival via Tuc-Tuc, to me Royal Palace visit.
On that note, I’m off to the airport for the long long flight back to Amsterdam. It has been, well, overwhelming to say the least. A fantastic experience that has left me profoundly happy and hungry for more journeys like this one.
It is never easy to pull out a camera and record a message while sitting alone in public. It is even harder when you’re alone, wastern, and tall, sitting in a park talking into a camera in your left hand. The following vlog entry is about my initial impressions after wandering slightly lost near the victory monument and chatachuk market areas of Bangkok.
Occasionally I like to share some useful knowledge I believe I have on how to use the internet in a way that allows you to get information and some degree of satisfication. This vlog entry is about the social networking site facebook; specifically - how to cut right through the crap, once and for all, and make use of the very handy and sometimes rewarding tools the system has (buried) for you.
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