If you haven’t heard of mountiantop removal, you are about to be in for a shock. Many people do not realize that a large portion of our electricity still comes from coal and that the preferred method for mining coal today involves the literal removal of the tops of mountains in the Appalachians. [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Your coal footprint visualized
Posted in Energy, Environment, Geography, Maps, tagged Appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, coal, electricity, Kentucky, mountains, mountaintop removal, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Story of Stuff
Posted in Environment, Movies, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, Video, tagged Annie Leonard, consumption, disposal, Environment, production, stuff, The Story of Stuff, trash, waste on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have not yet seen The Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard, I highly recommend it. It’s a clever 20-minute video about the production/consumption/disposal cycle and what it is doing to the earth and to people. A la An Inconvenient Truth, you can sign up to host a screening (some schools have [...]
A better use for juice pouches
Posted in Art, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, tagged Art, Piano, Recycling on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This article in yesterday’s New York Times about concert pianist Soyeon Lee’s efforts to raise awareness about recycling and reusing was really neat. She wears gowns made from recycled juice pouches and plays pieces that have been “recycled”. After watching the Story of Stuff together, my daughter and I decided not to use juice boxes [...]
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