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The continuing battle between The Sea Shepard vessel, The Steve Irwin, and Japanese whalers turns ugly .

The Sea Shepard captain claims shots and grenades were fired on his ship.

Read the story and watch the video.

Related Posts:Hold Your Nose! Japanese Whaler Barraged By Rotten Butter

Sea Shepard crew deploys over two dozen bottles of rotten butter sending a stench throughout the whale killing ship that will remain for days…

A video that’s at once cute and humorous. An instant internet classic, right?

Do The Green Thing put this and other great videos together. Each one’s a little piece of green comedy manna. Watch this video and then check them out for more.

Via: Times Online

The symbol of the UK establishment, the Houses of Parliament, has today been invaded by protesters clambering onto the roofs and demanding justice over Heathrow’s third runway decision.

Click here to see the story in pics. Good stuff.

Story in full.

Bishops of Liverpool and London are calling on Christians to give up carbon for Lent. According to the Telegraph,

Lent is the time when Christians traditionally give up such things as sweets, chocolate or alcohol in recognition of the 40 days Christ spent fasting in the desert to prepare for his ministry. This year they will be asked to think about their own carbon footprint…

More:

Diocese of London

Tearfund

Image courtesy of www.london.anglican.org.

Facebook: this time an invitation to turn your lights off for just one hour on March 29th between 8-9 pm.

Photo courtesy of Flickr.

Head over to eBay to bid on a solar-powered Lifeline radio autographed by Tom Hanks. Proceeds from the auctions will benefit the Freeplay Foundation, which provides these radios to African communities that would otherwise be without reliable access to information.

Thanks to Ecorazzi for the heads up!

An interesting report ran in The Guardian today - offering tips on how your community could become greener by way of the green living awards.

Environmentally friendly scuba diving, a new kind of courier bicycle service, the “scrapmobile” and more. A thoroughly positive and refreshing report as we head into the weekend.

Everybody sing along, now: “Save the planet… Save the Planet…”

Thanks to co-creator Michael Droste for passing this along…

Facebook can drive me bonkers at times.

As many commentators have remarked, how can one possibly benefit from being bought a virtual drink? An empty gesture.

No empty gestures on this page though.

Stop Global Warming

Picture courtesy of Flickr here.