Posted in Endangered Species, Environment, Movies, tagged arkansas, bird, Endangered Species, ivory-billed woodpecker, movie on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last night, I went to see a screening of The Lord God Bird, a movie produced and directed by George Butler of Pumping Iron Fame. The event was co-hosted by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and The Nature Conservancy. I really enjoyed seeing it, although I don’t feel strongly about whether or not [...]
Posted in Art, Photography, The Stuff of Life, Video, tagged chris jordan, cigarettes, drugs, excess, garbage, photo, Photography, prison, TED, ted talks, trash, Video, waste on June 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Take a few minutes to watch this video: Chris Jordan Pictures Excess - TED Talk 2008
Artist Chris Jordan talks about his work at the TED Conference earlier this spring - in his own words here from his website:
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a [...]
Posted in Fun, tagged babies, baby, card, ecard, GRIST, holiday, mom, mother, Mother's Day, overpopulation, population, zero population growth on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
You may or may not wish to send your mom this Mother’s Day card from GRIST, depending on her sense of humor and sensibilities….
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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Endangered Species, Environment, Movies, tagged Klamath, explode, The Nature Conservancy, fish, wetlands on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
Video of The Nature Conservancy blowing up a levee on Oregon’s Upper Klamath Lake. It was “an unprecedented move to improve wildlife habitat, water storage and water quality downstream.”
More coverage of the event here from KATU TV. I love how they keep repeating the video of the blast over and [...]
Posted in Art, Environment, Movies, The Stuff of Life, tagged plastic, waste, Environment, toys, child, children on October 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Winner of Friends of the Earth’s Best One-minute green film award. This simple film documents the horrors of plastic overpackaging of a child’s toy. After wrestling with all the packaging, the child is too tired even to play with her new toys.
Posted in Movies on October 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My new addiction is the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Talks series. Here’s a really good one I watched the other day, given by Stephen Petranek: 10 Ways the World Could End. Some of them are predictable, but others are not. I like that he prescribes actions we can take (and the relative [...]
Posted in Fun, Geography, Maps, Photography on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
USGS has a neat collection of satellite images constituting Earth as Art, which you can also add as a Google Gadget to your iGoogle page or web site.
Image Name: Karman Vortices
Image Date: September 1999
Image Source: Landsat 7
Scale: 1″= 4.3 miles(6.9km)
Description: Each of these swirling clouds is a result of a meteorological phenomenon known as a [...]
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