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Casey and Paris - white trash

BABY-oil heiress Casey Johnson had been living off-grid in the months before her drug-fueled death.

British model Jasmine Lennard, a friend of the troubled heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, visited to her house, called Grumblenot, on Mulholland Drive: “It is a mess,” she told Page Six last month. “The electricity is off, there are rats, the pool is green because there is no water.”

Journalists are trying to establish how Casey heated her home, and whether she was carrying in bottled water

“Casey basically needs to go into rehab for a long time. She has walked out [of treatment programs] twice against her parents’ wishes, so they told her no more money. The last time she left early a few months ago and wrote at the bottom of her exit form: ‘[Bleep] you – keep the money.’

Commenting on the death for NBC News Dr Drew Pinsky said: “fame has become an autonomous motivator for young people today. It is an attempt to fill emptiness. (more…)

Here are a few ideas that will help, or at least not hinder the Australian environment

Oregon Scientific Solar Weather Clock

$139.99

THIS tidy unit is as practical as it is sleek and is ideal for campers and caravanners. Best of all, it’s green friendly. After fully charging the solar panel in the sun (takes about six hours) it’s right to operate for two months. Its main game is displaying the time and weather (inside and out), but it also forecasts the weather 12 hours ahead. (more…)

Enjoy it while it lasts Here are the precise facts of the coming water shortage as far as they are currently known or surmised.

Areas of the world already facing intense competition and growing demand for scarce water supplies will face steadily worsening water supply in the future. Everywhere, climate change will raise new obstacles to water resource planning and policy development, because the climatic and hydrologie patterns of the past will no longer provide a reliable guide to the future. (more…)

Can’t even send it back

December 6, tree lights in Trafalgar Square will illuminate a 75ft-high Norwegian spruce, writes Catherine Gregory the sixty-first of its kind to make the journey from Oslo to London since the tradition began in 1947. That�s a lot of tree-miles. Is it perhaps time to end this annual tradition?

�The Trafalgar Square Christmas tree is a central part of Christmas in London,� says Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone. Christmas trees add a special seasonal atmosphere to public areas, which is increasingly important in combating disbanding communities and the anonymity and animosity of the metropolis. But the spruce that stands beneath Nelson�s Column for a month each year is just one of six million Christmas trees in Britain alone. At a time of year when waste rises by 25 per cent and power stations are working over-time, it is worth reminding ourselves that we are cutting down the very things that absorb our harmful emissions. (more…)

Hurry – get your beach hut here

A holiday on the Albanian Riviera may sound like Europe’s final frontier but a recent article by Benji Lanyado in The Guardian, found beautiful empty coves, �30-a-night beach huts and kindly locals make Qeparo beach on the Albanian Riviera worth a visit. Its 50 miles of “undiscovered” coast in southern Europe, one of the most spectacular strips of land in Europe, and off-grid to boot. (more…)