More from El Camino del Rey (El Caminito del Rey)

The previous video we posted of the mad pathway through the gorge known as El Camino del Rey proved pretty popular, so here is another.

Check out the girl in the blue T-Shirt who appears to be treating the entire thing like a stroll home from the pub!

Blood, Sweat, T-Shirts, You, Wear, Suffering

I've not got around to watching this yet but some enlightened and trustworthy colleagues have been telling me about Blood, Sweat and T-Shirts in which a bunch of British fashion-mongers go and work in some typical Indian sweatshops that produce the clothes that we buy for anything between 50p in Primark to £150 in some swanky up itself gitshop for essentially the same article produced in the same hell-hole by the same people for the same horrendous quality of life.

Or as the programme's website says:

Six young fashion addicts experience life as factory workers in India, making clothes for the British high street. In this four-part series, the six work in the mills of India’s cotton belt and stitch clothes in cramped back rooms, sleeping next to their sewing machine. See how it changes their attitudes to cut-price clothing.

Gonna have to iPlayer that one.

Meanwhile with the global credit crunch going on and bills rocketing companies that do try to make things for a fair price and charge a realistic price for them go out of business.

Masdar City - Eco City of the Future

Maybe Earth Dream is a little late to the party in reporting this one but we've just noticed that the United Arab Emirates are building an eco city of the future, which will house 50,000 people and 1500 businesses and be powered entirely by renewable energy sources and has been designed by Foster and Partners.

It all sounds a bit Walt Disney's Epcot, but the fact that they are committing to having the first phase habitable by 2009 shows that we are talking about more than a giant golf ball and a bunch of audio animatronics, and it's about time a rich nation started doing something like this before it's too late.

So why are they doing it? Sitting on 10% of the worlds oil reserves you might think that they would be the last ones to be bothered about the ever widening gap between supply and demand of the old texas tea? Wrong.

You see the UAE is rich as a result of oil. The energy business is what they do and what they know. They want to make sure that they steal a march on the rest of the developed world who are still pissing about building new fossil fuel powered stations and become the go-to guys for the next generation of global energy supply. Result = big $$$ when the rest of us need to catch up.

So will it work? Well it being the first such project of this scale there will certainly be a lot of lessons to learn on the way. As one grumpy Earth Dream contributor who currently works in a Foster designed monstrosity moaned "the first lesson they'll learn is not to use bloody Fosters. Imagine a whole city of bad recycled air, rubbish quality light and horrid sci-fi nightmares...". Let's hope that with this being the Eco City of the Future he'll at least be wrong about the bad air.