Live Earth happened yesterday. Eight concerts in eight different locations to bring awareness about global warming.

All Live Earth venues will be designed and constructed by a team of sustainability engineers who will address the environmental and energy management challenges of each concert site, as well as the operations of sponsors, partners and other Live Earth affiliates. Each venue will not only be designed to maintain a minimum environmental impact, but will showcase the latest state-of-the-art energy efficiency, on-site power generation, and sustainable facilities management practices.

I’d be really interested to see how they’re cutting down their own carbon footprint. Using LED technology for lighting is just one small part. LED’s still use power though and how about the sound systems? There’s no funky LED power saving audio technology about. Then there’s trucking equipment and artists to venues, audience and staff travelling to and from site, broadcast requirements for power and movement, etc etc.

I’d like to see published statistics about what factors were taken into account and what kind of energy was saved, compared to say a standard concert taking place.

“They’re not that environmentally conscious, but they’ve heard of global warming,” said Reiner. “Nigel thought it was just because he was wearing too much clothing - that if he just took his jacket off it would be cooler.”

Guardian Article

It’s interesting to see the Live Earth gigs being used to promote green measures, including eco-friendly electricity, sustainable lighting and carbon-neutral travel.

Not so long ago in a trade magazine that I read, they had a feature on the gigs that take place at the Eden Project in Cornwall. It was quite an interesting article and it’s good to see the industry I work in taking a positive step towards environmentally friendly systems of work.

Today, California and Britain announced that they would work together on reducing greenhouse gases and promoting low carbon technologies. Link

Great! Now all you’ve got to do is persuade the rest of America to follow California’s lead and maybe the results will be noticeable.

These past few days have been insanely hot round here.
Today we got up to above thirty degrees C, as we did yesterday!
We’ve otherwise been in the high twenties for about a week.

There’s nothing better on a hot evening than having an ice cold beer after work. Not too many, but a couple normally go down very well.

I bought a new digital camera the other day. It’s a Canon Ixus 55, which i got at an amazing price from Amazon.co.uk. I saved around £60 by purchasing through them!
I mainly brought it as i don’t want to carry my digital SLR and lenses around Italy when i go next week. I think it will make a superb replacement for that occasion!