gareth bouch :: stuff & things

Nestlé don’t want you to see the video above, because they complained to Youtube that Greenpeace were infringing their copyright. Youtube removed the video but now Greenpeace would like to offer it to you, as a gift. Download the video and put it on your favourite video sharing site. The more people who join in, the more interesting it’ll make things for Nestlé.

We all like a break, so it’s time to give orang-utans one. Nestlé uses palm oil in Kit Kat and many other products which is bought from suppliers that destroy rainforests in Indonesia to grow their plantations.
As a result, threatened species like orangutans are being pushed into extinction and huge quantities of greenhouse gases are being released, accelerating climate change.
Nestlé have so far refused to stop buying palm oil from the worst suppliers, so it’s time to make them change their minds.

Write to board member André Kudelski to demand they act responsibly and cease trading with companies that are destroying Indonesia’s rainforests. More info here and an in-depth piece here…

I must admit I’ve been thinking… Why all the fuss over the Credit Crunch? We might as well just get over it, as according to this report from July we’re all doomed anyway.
The Earth will apparently become uninhabitable by around 2050 and we’ll have to bugger off into space to colonise other planets; which I suppose at least means we can probably have cool sleeping quarters like they do on Battlestar Galactica…
Most important thing is that when we *do* go, we leave every banker, financier, citygit and FSA official behind on whatever remains of this smoking, toxic mudball.
And the Beckhams.
We *must* leave the Beckhams behind too…

Anyhooo – if you fancy doing something a teesny bit constructive between now and then though, then do check out COOL EARTH – a superb project to conserve and protect huge tracts of endangered rainforest by putting them into local guardianship through your funding.
One of the most admirable, constructive and practical conservation projects going on right now.
Go on, go on, go on… “buy” your loved one an acre or two…