How many remember the Exxon Valdez accident outside Alaska about 20 years ago? This was one of that times greatest catastrophes where over 40,000 tonnes of crude oil filled the Alaskan coast line. The BP Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe is even worse than the Exxon Valdez accident [1], so the more we drill for oil the worse accidents we should expect

At the moment the US government is claiming BP will have to pay for the oil damages, but just look what happened after Exxon Valdez. Exxon had to pay 5 billion dollars at first in fines, but thanks to their lawyers they managed to fight the legal system and get it lowered to only 500 million dollars. Call me pessimistic, but I think the same thing will happen in this case too. At first BP will have to pay a huge amount of money and it will be all over the news, but many years later they get it lowered to a tenth of the original amount and by then everyone will have forgotten about the catastrophe so nobody cares if they don't have to pay.

This is why it's so important that we all help supporting the organizations working to make our planet a better place (like WWF and Greenpeace).

[1] This is how we calculated that the BP oil spill is worse than Exxon Valdez:

We know that the Exxon Valdez spilled 40,000 tonnes of oil and according to calculations from BP and environmental organizations the latest oil spill is somewhere between 5,000 and 50,000 barrels per day. We calculated on 25,000 barrels per day for 45 days. One barrel is about 0,1369 tonnes ("1 barrel per day (b/d) = 50 tonnes per year (approx.)" from eppo.go.th) of oil so we get:

25,000 barrels * 45 days * 0,1369 tonnes per barrel = 154 012.5 tonnes of oil

BP Mexican Gulf Oil Catastrophe is a post from: XavierMedia.org

Since this fund isn't paying a yearly amount to green projects like the other funds we own, we're planning to use the dividend earned from this fund to invest in SEB Baltic Sea Fund and Skandia WWF Fund.

The total fund development has been really nice the last year and we're up over 150% since April last year, but that's also including new investments we've done. We're really looking forward to an exciting year and we hope that the investment will continue to increase like in the past year (the more the investment increases the more money WWF will get from the funds )

New fund is a post from: XavierMedia.org

WWF says it all in their blog with this qoute:

The UN climate talks in Copenhagen were inches away from total failure and ended with an outcome far too weak to tackle dangerous climate change, WWF said today.

So it looks like the ordinary person (Average Joe if you like) have to do the most work once again since the people we pay to negotiate these things are just too fat and happy to bother…..So my suggestion to everyone is to make a new year promise to focus all their little actions on the environment next year. Like for example switching to renewable green energy, try to walk instead of using the car for short distances, and maybe bring leftovers as lunch from the dinner the day before. By taking these actions you may not only reduce your impact on the planet, but also save a few bucks

If you have any money left after buying your Christmas presents, then perhaps you may consider investing in a fund investing in companies working for a better planet (like the SEB Baltic Sea fund/WWF) or giving some money to WWF. You can read more about donating money to WWF here.

Merry Christmas to you all and Happy New Year!

Merry CHristmas and a Happy New year is a post from: XavierMedia.org

"Bananas!*" is a movie from the Swedish film company WG Film about the banana company Dole Food Company, Inc. and their activities in Nicaragua. In the movie you get to know that Dole used banned pesticides at their banana fields they knew where dangerous to the workers.

What's even worse is that Dole is now trying to silence anyone that mention this, especially the filmmakers by suing them. Dole's acting is a big threat to the freedom of speech in the entire world, because if they succeed no one will ever be able to critic big companies since they will be able to sue you (even if you're right).

The film makers and WG Film issued a statement via their lawyer Richard J. Lee:

"My clients and I believe that this suit is without merit and represents the latest in a continued line of intimidating harassment by a multinational corporation aimed squarely at a small, independent film and its filmmakers.

It is unfortunate that rather than concentrate its resources toward genuinely addressing the acts it admitted to, and was found liable of committing as covered in the film, Dole instead chooses to stifle even basic discussion by attempting to silence the messenger of a message it dislikes.

Moreover, it is appalling that through this action, Dole is attempting to shift the focus away from its own CEO’s court admission that Dole continued the usage of a banned pesticide even after being informed of its harm by its manufacturer Dow Chemicals, and now on to WG Film which captured that moment on film.

It is important to note that Dole committed to suing WG Film without seeing the film.

Dole has touted a judge’s later finding against one of the attorneys in the case shown in the film which did not in fact exonerate Dole or its actions in Nicaragua.

In all screenings of the film which have occurred to date we have disclosed the judge’s findings and put the trial fully in context with events which happened after the completion of this documentary."

As an example Dole was able to stop the movie from competing at the Los Angeles film festival, by having a court order to block the film’s screening prior to the Festival’s opening in June 2009!

Swedish parliament member Mats Johansson writes:

"For me as a former journalist and publisher the "BANANAS!*" case is of great political importance. The freedom of speech is central to an open society, and must be protected all over the world. The outcome of the process is crucial for the future in a global context, which is a new situation to Swedish standards."

If you have the chance see the movie, if not for the banana workers but at least to protect freedom of speech in the world! Here's a trailer for the movie:

The web site for BANANAS!* can be found at www.bananasthemovie.com

BANANAS!* – The Movie is a post from: XavierMedia.org

Each year they got a theme for the Blog Action Day and this year it's Climate Change. On their web site (BlogActionDay.org) they say this about why they selected Climate Change:

Climate change affects us all and it threatens more than the environment. It threatens to cause famine, flooding, war, and millions of refugees.

Given the urgency of the issue of climate change and the upcoming international climate negotiations in Copenhagen this December, we think the blogosphere has the unique opportunity to mobilize millions of people around expressing support for finding a sustainable solution to the climate crisis.

Climate is of course extremely important since if the planet dies, so will we. Some people may argue that we can always more to a new planet, but is that really the way to go? Destroy one planet and move on to next and next planet….. Also we don't have the technology to move to a new planet just yet, but we have technology to reduce our impact on the environment. We're just not good enough on using it.

Last year 12,000 blogs reached 14 million readers about the Blog Action Day and I hope this will reach even more people this year. Even if you don't have a blog you can help spreading the word using social media sites like Facebook or Twitter (click here to tweet about #BAD). You can also help spreading the word by adding a badge on your blog or web site:

<a href="http://www.blogactionday.org"><img src="http://www.blogactionday.org/imgs/badges/bad-125-125.jpg" border=0 /></a>

This video created by the people behind BlogActionDay.org will tell you a little bit more about Blog Action Day and Climate Change:

Blog Action Day on the 15th of October 2009 is a post from: XavierMedia.org

Both funds have had a terrible year since they've lost about 40% of their value in a year, but we now believe it's a good time to invest and that they will develop perfectly.

I think the chart over the development show that I was correct:

However the true development isn't 60% up, because of an additional investment we did earlier this year. But still the fund is up at least 40%.

Now to the reason for ads here at XavierMedia.org. We added ads to earn some extra money to invest in this fund, which means that we will keep track on how much money we earn on ads on this site and invest all earnings into the funds.

When we do additional investments in the funds because of the earnings from XavierMedia.org we will of course keep you updated with all the relevant details . Xavier Media, Xavier Media International and Xavier Finans will of course still contribute to the fund investments as we've done before.

You will be able to keep track on all addditional investments using the category "New investment".

Fund development and why we have ads on this site is a post from: XavierMedia.org

First week update is a post from: XavierMedia.org

Hopefully this investment will grow alot and help WWF contribute to a better world or as they say it "for a living planet". I will do a few posts here to keep you all updated on the development (which we all hope will be good from this point). We also hope that the world economy has reach the rock bottom for this time.

When I setup this site I started wondering why we don't see any of the other big buys in the blogsphere do something similar? They all list their profits, but they never speak about any kind of donations to WWF or any other organization dedicated to save our planet .

For example John Chow made over $38 000 in September 2008, but from what I know I've never seen any post about him donating any money to WWF or any similar organization . Why? My guess is that he's too cheap to share his profits with our planet.

Xavier Media is investing in companies following the WWF guidelines is a post from: XavierMedia.org