Posted in Art, Environment, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, tagged Art, atlanta, Environment, garbage, public art, Recycling, sunken garden park, trash on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somehow, I managed to miss all pre-press about The Bottle Project in Atlanta, an installation in a park walking distance to my house. Last night, I was walking over there, and happened upon part of it that remains - it was supposed to be installed through September, but it looks like the Department [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in The Stuff of Life on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I believe knowledge is power - the power to change our behavior for the better. Driving a hybrid car with dashboard feedback on fuel efficiency lets you know instantly how you can change your driving habits to reduce the amount of gas you use.
What if you could see instantly how much electricity, natural gas, [...]
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Posted in Environment, Food, The Stuff of Life, vegan, tagged community supported agriculture, CSA, farmer's market, Food, fruit, herbicide, local harvest, organic, pesticide, songbirds, vegetables on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s almost CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) season! I just re-subscribed to the CSA I joined last year and am looking forward to the local, organic food that will be delivered weekly for distribution to my nearby synogogue. It’s important to eat local and organic food for a variety of reasons including reduced carbon [...]
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The mountains of Canada have inspired a line of rugs by Maude Decor in Vancouver.
These colorful designs features handpainted canvas rugs in the shape of such natural wonders as The Three Sisters (picture above), Tip Top Mountain, Mt. Logan, and seven others. They are not inexpensive, but they are beautiful to look at.
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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 [...]
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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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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.
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There was an article in today’s New York Times about people who illegally re-pipe their houses to take advantage of graywater (any water that goes down the drain besides the toilet). Here is a link to the article and some excerpts:
The Dirty Water Underground
By GREGORY DICUM
Greywater Guerrillas, a team focused on promoting and [...]
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My new friend in the kitchen
Over the weekend, I got myself a slow cooker (aka crock pot). I’m hoping to use it once or twice a week to increase the number of homemade meals we eat (as opposed to eating out or resorting to pre-packaged food). All in all, I think this will [...]
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