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 Environment, Geography, Maps, Video, tagged carbon, carbon emissions, emissions, Maps, perdue, perdue university, project vulcan, Video on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In the categories of maps and carbon emissions, I present Project Vulcan (and it has nothing to do with Star Trek, except perhaps some inspiration in naming). This is a project at Purdue University to distill information about carbon emissions by economic sector (power, industry, transportation) into useful visualizations. It is funded by [...]
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Al Gore premiered his new climate change talk and slide show at the recent TED conference. I tried to embed the video here, but it didn’t work, so here is the link.
Here is the blurb from the site:
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change [...]
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Posted in Environment, Movies, Recycling, The Stuff of Life, Video, tagged waste, Environment, The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard, stuff, consumption, production, disposal, trash 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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