Recent Posts Tagged With 'coral'

• The most unsustainable best job in the world

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 21:47 in Advertising, current affairs, coral, cultural symbols

  With fewer entries at the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival this year, one seemingly successful campaign is continuing to garner more attention even after its big push earlier this year: The Best Job in the World by Tourism Queensl...

• Great Barrier Bing

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 20:57 in technology, coral

  Australia’s Great Barrier Reef made yet another media cameo this month with Bing’s inclusion of an aerial image of the world wonder as its photo of the day today June 11, 2009: Have you used the new service yet?  It’s actually pretty dec...

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  Posted on Thursday June 4th, 2009 at 09:57 in Film, coral

  June 5, 2009, marks the opening of the film Home by Yann Arthus-Betrand.  The film focuses on bringing beautiful aerial images of all things earth to the masses in an attempt to further rattle our souls into doing something about the massive des...

• Google’s Earth Day paradise wishes

  Posted on Wednesday April 22nd, 2009 at 13:49 in global warming, fish, waterfalls, utopia, coral, sea and oceans

  If ever you needed an image that summarizes what we wish the world still were, Google dropped this holiditty today: Sweet waterfalls and coral reefs are all the earth has left to love?  These are sad times if so. That cold, freshwater runoff m...

• Acuvue lets you snorkel the Great Barrier Reef

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 00:06 in diving, pharmaceuticals, oasis, coral

  Acuvue Oasys is a moisture-giving contact lens that purportedly allows you to venture places that other contacts cannot take you, like snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef in Australia: This ad had other places including the wilds of Africa, but this i...

• Sunscreen killing off coral ~ 10% of reefs in danger

  Posted on Wednesday January 30th, 2008 at 14:05 in diving, pharmaceuticals, coral

  A few years ago, while on a scuba-diving trip to the Red Sea, I looked at a friend of mine who was sunbathing and told her that you could make a killing promoting "Coral-Safe Sunblock."  She freaked at me because she wasn’t wearing...

• Corelle dinnerware ~ the harshest paradisiacal conditions

  Posted on Tuesday January 15th, 2008 at 03:06 in fish, diving, coral, household goods

  This ad has nothing to do with the product: Yes, it’s Corelle glass dinnerware.  And it looks like it was discarded into the great floating trash abyss in the Pacific.  And does anybody really think of this type of underwater coral/f...

• Humans are to blame for coral reef degradation

  Posted on Wednesday January 9th, 2008 at 19:27 in coral, sea and oceans

  According to AFP and a study released on January 9, 2008, the degradation and destruction of the coral reefs is caused by human settlements, including coastal development and agricultural. The full article on coral reef degradation is available here...