Because everyone else has run out of ideas….

it has been decided that the MySpace community will now co-author a book on environmental issues. The children’s enivronmental handbook will be produced by HarperCollins and will be on sale at $12.95 a pop. Although I am sure that there is a certain wisdom of the crowds to this, in other words if you get enough people to enter their ideas then surely one will be good, it feels a bit like a weak way of getting children to think about the environment. As a future parent, I would much rather my children read a book written by someone who has spent years researching the topic rather than a group of MySpace users, who have probably plagerised and misinterpreted the expert’s ideas anyway.

We would be better off encouraging this MySpace audience to create environmental differences at home rather than creating a book about it, but I am sure that the MySpace brand name will carry this forward. Apparently, Facebook is now going to start a guide on how to create sustainable and renewable applications with minimal CO2 emissions.

Matt Bamford-Bowes