I am always impressed by the way information comes and goes.

On one hand, a friend of mine, Noel –a girl of many facets-, is helping Simon Rissvik out with some translation issues. He is studying international development in Lundís University, Sweden, and arrived in Argentina with no Spanish at all, but lots of ideas: he is making his thesis in recovered businesses which ended up transforming their selves into cooperatives.

He recommended Noel to enter gapminder.org, where you can see statistics on lots of data. There is graph which shows how each country emited more and more carbon emission from 1820 to 2011.

On the other side, a friend of mine –from life, university and the bike, also a girl with many facets-, Flora, asked me as we rode: and? Have you checked bikestorming?

No, I had forgotten: bikestorming.com is a storm of ideas for bikes. It is a website that proposes to create a global and systemic change regarding urban mobility in order to achieve sustainable cities. The motto is 51% bikes for 2030, and in the website you can find several articles, from tips for riding under the rain, to ambulance-bikes which save lives in Uganda. They comment as well whenever there are social movements on wheels throughout the cities of the world.

Last, but not least, Victoria, an avid university student (and outside the academic environment asíwell) of the natural world, shares an article with us about Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish activist who believes that the excessive attention put on the green cause deflects the most urgent needs to be solved. In the same article, an 18 minutes TED conference is presented which he gave in 2005. (Check it out!)

He emphasizes the need of invested the available money in an intelligent manner, for all the inhabitants of the world to have the basic health needs covered, as well as installing early alert systems to for see coming natural disasters, in order to then focus on the reduction of the greenhouse gases emissions which enhance climate change. A Hurricane which kills five or ten people in Florida, kills ten thousands in Guatemala!, says Lomborg. And those are the differences which we need to solve BEFORE going on. People can no longer starve to death, and that is something no one can deny.

Untill Next Week,

Brian Longstaff.-

Ps. Thanks to Noel, Florentina and Victoria for sharing!

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