Archive for February, 2011
The Academy Awards were on last night, and whether you were blissfully unaware of them, or tuned in and voted on every single category, you might be interested in one of the Oscar-nominated short films, Let’s Pollute.… Read the rest
It comes to audiences in the style of a 50s or 60s era
Thanks for all of the great captions! The 4 finalists were:
Robert Buckley – Sorry, Frosty. We honestly believed our tweets about climate change would work.
dave lulich – “worm” weather is on the way
Emory – It’s amazing what you can do with your feces!
Joe Yeoman – “Oliver,… Read the rest
More on Breasts and Guns
From Grist: Palin and Bachmann trash Michelle Obama’s breast-feeding advocacy
From CNN: Palin defends rule allowing loaded weapons in national parks
From EcoChildsPlay: Posts on breastfeeding
From Mother Nature Network: More on breastfeeding
photo within cartoon: Roger H. Goun… Read the rest
A Japanese inventor has come up with a contraption that converts plastic bags, bottles and caps into crude oil (petroleum) that can be used to power a generator, which can heat a person’s home. The machine works by heating up the plastic, trapping its vapors and condensing those vapors into… Read the rest
This Bay Area artist, Reuben Margolin, creates art that mimics nature and, in some cases (like that of the caterpillar), makes nature’s mechanisms work–take this with a grain of salt–better… because he can escape nature’s boundaries. As he explains in the above video, the caterpillar makes somewhat “mechanical” movements as… Read the rest
“Me and My Bike” is an environmental advocacy video that boasts bikes for transport. The best part? It features young kids from the impoverished towns of Nairobi who argue, through lyrics and a hip-hop style of music, that bikes are a way to help the earth from its environmental issues.… Read the rest
The Rio Grande flows through some of the oldest continually inhabited land in the United States. In northern New Mexico, the river follows a deep gorge formed by the separation of the earth’s curst. Because of its wild and pristine state it is home to a rich population of birds… Read the rest
Most conventional ski and snowboard wax isn’t as benign as it may seem. Quite the opposite, actually. These speed-enhancing waxes contain perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), which have been deemed potential human carcinogens that last excessively long in the environment and in the bodies of living beings.
Although the EPA has stated… Read the rest
Thanks for all of the great captions! The 4 finalists were:
Robert Buckley – Sorry, Frosty. We honestly believed our tweets about climate change would work.
dave lulich – “worm” weather is on the way
Emory – It’s amazing what you can do with your feces!
Joe Yeoman – “Oliver,… Read the rest
In the face of the sometimes overwhelming environmental concerns we face, it’s simply a relief when we learn of good… Read the rest environmental news. That said, we’re happy to have learned that the United States–which has an estimated 300 million hectares of forests–has more trees now than it did 100 years ago.
