As you already know there are two countries which haven’t signed the Kyoto Treaty, the US (surprise surprise) and Australia!

What a shame! Some 120 + countries managed to sign it!

For a country that is really quite mordern and forward looking in its approaches, it is unbelievable that Australia will not support such a treaty. And why?

Simple. “It would cost jobs”, according to John Howard. Or maybe it had something to do with the fact that the US didn’t ratify the treaty either. Either way,what a joke, saying it would cost jobs. I remember years ago, actually now decades ago, someone saying Australia had the potential to become a banana republic. Maybe that comment, in light of its current stance on global warming is not so far from the truth.

Australia has so much potential to become a leader in environmental issues. It should already be leading the solar energy race, but it isn’t. It is far behind Western Europe on many other environmental issues. Australia is one of the highest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world on a per capita basis.

What a shame - isn’t it time to do something against this????

Well you can, but start small:

- Reduce your impact AT HOME
- Reduce your impact WHILE ON THE MOVE
- Help bring about change LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY

Here are some quick facts about the affects of global warming:

- The number of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last 30 years.
- Malaria has spread to higher altitudes in places like the Colombian Andes, 7,000 feet above sea level.
- At least 279 species of plants and animals are already responding to global warming, moving closer to the poles

For more info look here or here www.stopglobalwarming.org

Quite simply - if you want to see the most creative movie of the last decade, you have to see “SCIENCE OF SLEEP“.

It’s Michel Gondry’s (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) newest film about a young man who mixes up his dreams with reality (basically a hommage to his own work and life thus far). It’s full of crazy ideas, a car chase with cardboard cars, toy horses made out of material which come to life, cities made of cardboard, time machines made of plastic etc, etc, etc.

It is wild! It makes everything else you have seen, which claims to be creative, look like a piece of work made from someone out of the movie “1984″! Seriously, it is outrageous! It is funny, actually hilarious, loveable and so very daring!

Go see it! Tell everyone! Enjoy!!!!!

Since it has been a topic of late at Beezhouse, I thought it would be appropriate to highlight the difference in advertising for the two competing coffee brands - illy and Starbucks!

Which do you prefer?

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Don’t these two ads say so much about their cultures and therefore brands?