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 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 explode, fish, Klamath, The Nature Conservancy, 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 [...]
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