“With less than six weeks before it plays host to the Olympic sailing regatta, the city of Qingdao has mobilized thousands of people and an armada of small boats to clean up an algae bloom that is choking large stretches of the coastline and threatening to impede the Olympic competition.” (excerpt from article).

China should be looking into converting all this algae into fuel, assuming it can be done. At least they seem to be using it to feed animals and what not.

LINK: Olympic nightmare: A red tide in the Yellow Sea (IHT.com)

This seems to be only one of many problems hitting China with only weeks until the start of the Olympics. With water running low, unbearable smog, civil rights issues involving Tibet, and recent natural disasters still looming, amongst other issues, I have no idea how they will pull this huge event off with all of the world watching.

VIDEO: The Website Is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude (You Tube)

I just started reading Yvon Chouinard’s book “let my people go surfing”. What a great story. I’m not even half way through it and I already know I want to live my life like him. Not only is he brilliant and incredibly ahead of his time, he lives (and has lived) his life like most of us can only dream of.

Chouinard, the founder and owner of Patagonia, considers his highly successful outdoor clothing  and climbing gear company as an experiment and model of how businesses should (and must) be run going forward. I’m sure if you read his book that you’ll quickly agree.

Get the book!

ARTICLE: Let My People Go Surfing (Outside Magazine, October 2005)

I try not to use business cards much these days, and generally do a good job, but if I had to, I would definitely consider using these 100% recycled, recyclable and biodegradable cards from Moo.

LINK: Eco Business Cards for Green Networking (Earth2Tech)

LINK: Bloom: peddling green (Design 21)

LINK: Floating City for Climate Change Refugees (Inhabitat)

Wamzle Creative has launched a redesign for Surfing Medicine International, a non-profit based in Hawaii and Jamaica, that is focused on supporting, researching, and creating botanical remedies for human disease and water pollution.

Wamzle Creative recently launched a new version of northshorekauai.com, an online publication focused on the people and activities of the North Shore of Kaua’i.