Monday, March 30, 2009

Line's blog rocks!

My friend Line: landscape architect, people person, adopted by the Karen people of Burma/Thailand....see her blog.....

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Aqueous Solutions 2008 Annual Report online


The Aqueous 2008 Annual Report is now online and available for download - check it out!





And don't forget to visit our new online photo gallery!

Monday, March 09, 2009

Friedman gets it?

OK, so normally I think NYT columnist Tom Friedman is a total douchebag. But check out this quote from his recent op-ed piece:

Let’s today step out of the normal boundaries of analysis of our economic crisis and ask a radical question: What if the crisis of 2008 represents something much more fundamental than a deep recession? What if it’s telling us that the whole growth model we created over the last 50 years is simply unsustainable economically and ecologically and that 2008 was when we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.”

Holy crap. If Tom Friedman is willing to call into question this fundamental axiom in the reigning economic dogma, then (1) we really are up sh*t crick without a paddle, and (2) things may be fixin to change - and fast.

So hold on folks! If Friedman is starting to get it then we're in for a ride. When he starts preaching local (bioregional) self-reliance then we'll know we're on our way....

Read the full piece on the NYT website.

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Sunday, March 01, 2009

sick climbing in ton sai!

Last month went rock climbing in Railay and Ton Sai in the south of Thailand. It was totally sick.


My camera's still busted, but thanks to my climbing partners, the beautiful and talented Line and Birgit (from Norway, pictured just below, Birgit on the left), we have these fantastic pics to enjoy...












Line gets strapped in to belay me on some totally manky undercling.



Has anyone got a needle and thread? Cos I am ripped! Ha!








Our climbing guide, P'Nuang. He's awesome.