You only live once...

Coming along with us to the One Life Live exhibition in Earl's Court, London next weekend will be Project Carbon.

Project Carbon is a UK based, not-for-profit carbon reduction service that aims to help one to understand and reduce one's carbon footprint and compensate for non-reducible carbon dioxide emissions.

We are extremely pleased to announce that we will also be joined by The Wilderness Foundation UK (blog).

The Foundation is dedicated to preserving and promoting the value of the world's last remaining wild areas by through lobbying, education and, wherever possible offering direct experience of wilderness itself. They support projects that conserve wilderness and those seeking to re-establish it in Great Britain and overseas.

We share the belief of the Wilderness Foundation in the irreplaceable value of wilderness, which contains the wonders of pristine nature, and enables us to return to our origins and draw a deep sense of belonging and inspiration and that by visiting the unspoiled places where nature has been allowed to exist since time began, this connection is rekindled.

A million thoughts

Time is ticking away from us in the count down to leaving. Thinking about all aspects of the equipment, navigation, etc... Which bike frame, wheels, brakes? What combination of clothes? Do I really need to take a dinner jacket?

We have been kindly donated a stand at this year's One Life Live Exhibition. This is a huge exhibition backed by the Independent newspaper, with a massive PR and marketing campaign behind it including national newspaper, magazine, London Underground posters Radio and TV and a year round website. One Life Live 2007 (2nd – 4th March) will take place at London’s most prestigious exhibition venue - the Grand Hall, Olympia in Central London.

Tom and I will be going along with some expedition kit, hopefully with a presence from our charities and some equipment companies, reciting poetry and talking to people about the aims of our trip to encourage sustainable living, promote bike use, and hopefully inspire others.

If you have a company who would like to be represented and help us with our trip please email me.

On another note, I recently watched a couple of documentaries. An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. Al Gore combines the science of global warming in an easy to understand way, with the potential consequences in a positive and strong, rallying cry to protect the one earth we all share and how we can take action without getting too evangelical about saving the planet. I also watched Who Killed the Electric Car?. This is a lesser publicised documentary, about how the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate and emerging electric car in California was quashed by government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen and consumers who turned their backs on the car in favour of the SUV. Both highly recommended and interesting.