Power out of waves

Portugal is the first country to produce power out of waves

http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/news/features/durham-portugal081020.wmv

Green Conferencing

Rather than travel to a meeting, why not participate electronically, or audio or video? Lots of such products are being developed, and next week we will be running our ECOOP PC meeting with the support of http://www.greenconferencing.com/GreenMission.html.

Christmas trees replanted

Beginning of January the streets are full of the sad sight of discarded Christmas trees, which took a couple of years to grow, only to end up decorating a house  for two weeks, and then to be thrown out. 

As an oprimistic contrast, I just found out that it is possible for those who HAVE to have a tree, that they can rent a tree and have it re-planted:

http://www.recyclenow.com/news/couple_launch.html

 

Grateful to the firefighters

This summer, again, there were many fires in Greece.

But the firefighters (both Greek and from other countries) extinguished most of them early enough for the damage not to become a catastrophe. Eternally grateful for their hard and dangerous work.