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Lotus Makes Hybrids Sound Like Real Cars

stepheng — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:19:08 +0000

I’d be a bit more skeptical about this if I hadn’t nearly been run over by a Prius a couple of times walking up the hill to work. I guess I’m more reliant on audio cues for crossing the road that I’d like to think I am. See Lotus Makes Hybrids Sound Like Real Cars.

It’s be interesting to see it we ever end up with minimum noise requirements for cars to go with the current maximum noise restrictions.

Also, if I had one of these systems I’d want my car to sound like a Tie Fighter

A Rocha Conference - Eden to Aotearoa: From Biblical Hope to Ecological Action

stepheng — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:28:22 +0000

More details are now available for the A Rocha conference, “Eden to Aotearoa: From Biblical Hope to Ecological Action”, being held at Raglan over 30 May to 2 June.

PowerUp the Game

stepheng — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:59:28 +0000

PowerUp the Game is a venture into creating an engaging 3D world to allow people (particularly children) to engage with environmental images. Looks interesting, though the specs to run it may be beyond everyone’s PC (and there’s no Mac version either).

Hat tip to: Derek’s Blog: Gaming with an environmental focus

Stimulus November 2007 - Creation Care

stepheng — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:34:12 +0000

Some of the presentations at the creation care colloquium I mentioned back in May (See Greenflame · Environment Colloquium - TANSAA and A Rocha) have been written up and published in the November 2007 issue of Stimulus. A couple of the papers are available online.

eDay 2007 - Recycling old computers and mobile phones

stepheng — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:42:14 +0000

If you’ve got a lot of old computer bits and pieces to get rid of then check out the eDay schedule for next week.

From the eDay 2007 web site:

Electronic waste (e-waste) can seriously harm the environment, wildlife and human health when dumped in landfills.

eDay is a drive-through recycling event which gives you the opportunity to dispose of old computers or mobile phones in an environmentally sustainable way.

eDay 2007 is on Saturday 29 September (9am – 3pm) in 10 locations across the country and Sunday 30 September (10am – 2pm) in Auckland. It’s easy to get involved – and it’s free.

Evangelicals thinking Green

stepheng — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 23:45:16 +0000

Fred, over at slacktivist: Green evangelicals, points to an interesting article ABC News: Saving God’s Earth: Evangelicals Go Green which looks at the swing within American evangelicalism to recover a biblical view of creation care. Fred’s also got his own extended commentary on the piece which is worth reading too.

‘EcoHome’ and ‘An Earth Without Us’

stepheng — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 22:17:34 +0000

MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS - EcoHome - Artist’s impression (and accompanying text) on sustainable dwellings produced for National Geographic Kids.

MONDOLITHIC STUDIOS - An Earth Without Us - Again, artistic representation (& text) about how our technologized landscape might change if all human beings suddenly disappeared.

Connect Bible Studies & Environmental Links

stepheng — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 11:03:44 +0000

In the past I’ve used (and adapted) various of the Connect Bible Studies that were originally produced by Damaris in the UK. The studies pick up the theme that intersects with various facets of popular culture and the everyday world and runs with that for a few weeks. One of the best things about the studies is that they are (relatively) cheap and downloadable (saving on postage halfway around the world).

Anyway, today I noticed that the new owners of the series, Scripture Union (UK), have some new studies out based on the themes of the iPod, Climate Change, and Beauty.

See: Scripture Union - Connect

A list of older Connect material can be found here.

Both links have sample PDFs available as well as ordering links.

I’ll going to get the Climate Change one and see if I can integrate it with other things such as those from the Churches’ Agency on Social Issues (CASI) environmental resources, The Social Justice Commission of the Anglican Church, and DVDs such as Sleeping Giants: Climate Change - Science, Policy & Action.

Stimulating images

stepheng — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:37:06 +0000

Links to a couple of images I saw recently on Mondolithic Studios’ web site.

Different Futures. The choices we make now affect those who follow.

Dark Energy. Resonates for me with William Blake’s lines from ‘Auguries of Innocence’, as well as with the dreams of the nanotechnologists.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

Churches and creation care

stepheng — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:42:20 +0000

The NZ Herald carried this piece in their religion and beliefs section yesterday looking at how mainstream (mostly Anglican) churches are responding with an increased environmental awareness. See Churches see their mission to care for creation - 02 Jul 2007 - Religion and beliefs news - NZ Herald.