Weekend round-up 17/10/09

Fun and interesting online finds and events for this week:

• The Maldives hosts the world's first underwater Cabinet meeting.  I am again stunned by their efforts to draw attention to the risks of global warming.

• Remember the Milk online to-do list management has infinitely improved my organisation and my ability to keep track of everything I have on the go.

• Neighbours Day - Saturday 17 October. Do you know your neighbours? What did you do in your neighbourhood?

• In a disappointing show of non-neigbourliness, St Heliers' shopkeepers kick up a stink because a charity shop opened up on the main street. 

• NZ government shows some climate leadership by proposing an international alliance to work on ways to mitigate agriculture's contribution to climate change. Although the government's motivation is obviously to avoid difficulties for our agriculture industry if we try to tackle emissions and other countries don't, the proposal seems to have potential to generate positive change. Go John!

• Using cellphones to change the world: a programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets students working on projects to use mobile phone technology to assist development in less developed countries - awesome!

• I saw a great movie this week: An Education. I give it two thumbs up.

• And finally, only a week until 350.org's International Day of Action, October 24th. Have you checked out the actions planned in your local area?