Here is an interesting documentary about electric cars and the oil industry. It is a dutch program, but most of it is made of interviews in english, with (dutch) subtitles.
http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/40004478/media/40102294/
Thursday 23 October 2008
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Wednesday 8 October 2008
Oceans
Today I was confronted with two pieces of information regarding the oceans.
The first, a movie, regarding the garbage on the oceans, particularly in some areas of the Pacific Ocean. Makes you wonder...I had once seen a documentary about the same subject, where a girl showed a huge amount of tooth brushes, lighters, toys and other plastics collected at a beach in Hawaii.
Now, I just arrived from a lecture by Dos Winkel, an underwater photographer and conservationist, about the state of the seas and of the fish. He presents a grim image of the state of the oceans, as nets plough the bottom of the seas in search for fish, catching everything in their way, and leaving only devastation, for what is mostly only by catch.
Furthermore, all the garbage we dump in the sea causes the fish we eat to be contaminated with toxic metals, and other contaminants, while it is increasingly advertised as healthy.
The film of the speech I attended will soon be available online. Meanwhile the dutch version is available here I hope (couldn't see it on a mac...).
By the way, there are plenty of nice lectures on all kinds of subjects available for viewing in the studium generale of the TUDelft.
The first, a movie, regarding the garbage on the oceans, particularly in some areas of the Pacific Ocean. Makes you wonder...I had once seen a documentary about the same subject, where a girl showed a huge amount of tooth brushes, lighters, toys and other plastics collected at a beach in Hawaii.
Now, I just arrived from a lecture by Dos Winkel, an underwater photographer and conservationist, about the state of the seas and of the fish. He presents a grim image of the state of the oceans, as nets plough the bottom of the seas in search for fish, catching everything in their way, and leaving only devastation, for what is mostly only by catch.
Furthermore, all the garbage we dump in the sea causes the fish we eat to be contaminated with toxic metals, and other contaminants, while it is increasingly advertised as healthy.
The film of the speech I attended will soon be available online. Meanwhile the dutch version is available here I hope (couldn't see it on a mac...).
By the way, there are plenty of nice lectures on all kinds of subjects available for viewing in the studium generale of the TUDelft.
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