Fresh green links

Lots going on at the climate summit and G20 financial crisis summit in New York this week. If you’ve seen a good round-up of all the events there, please let me know in the comments. The shortest yet most accurate summary I’ve seen so far came from David Waskow, spokesperson for Oxfam International: “Everyone played nice at the climate summit tea party, but only Japan and China showed up with cake.” (via jhiskes on Twitter)

Logging at Brown Mountain. Photo credit: The Age

Black harvest – clearfelling in one of Victoria’s rainforests has come to a temporary halt due to legal action by Environment East Gippsland. The judge in the case compared pictures of the logged areas to pictures of the Somme battlefield in World War I. More pictures over at Peter Campbell’s blog. The injunction on logging will last long enough to investigate whether it will pose a threat to the endangered animals living in the area. After seeing these photos, I don’t think any animal could survive there.

The greatest advertising trick of all time – Enviroblog has a preview trailer for the documentary Tapped, about the bottled water industry. Well worth a look.

350.org slideshow – a free slideshow (Powerpoint presentation) that you can use for your green community group. It’s got places for you to insert info about your local efforts, after an explanation of the urgency of climate change and how there’s a global movement forming. Could be very useful for anyone doing presentations in the lead-up to the Copenhagen meeting.