Archive for August, 2011
Besides the fact that the cloud is part of the joke and that they are ever-malleable to make into giant middle finngers, the cloud is also in the cartoon, as God, to symbolize the fact that God clouds the minds and muddles the judgement of the Christian base.
I just… Read the rest
Don’t even think about trashing that plastic milk bottle instead of recycling it. In fact, don’t get a one-use bottle in the first place. What goes around, comes around.… Read the rest
With the news today that another person was mauled by a grizzly mother keeping her cubs safe in Yellowstone, comes a story from the Grand Teton National Park about a group of people trying to keep the peace between tourists and bears.
The Grand Teton Wildlife Brigade was established in… Read the rest
We may be slightly obsessed with/overly enamored of/innately moved by time-lapse videos of nature. But who says that’s a bad thing?
This video captures a lighting storm that happened on Toronto a couple days ago and it’s undeniably awesome.
[Via: Huffington Post]… Read the rest
One of the things I dislike about living in an apartment is the fact that I don’t have a yard to lounge in on hot summer Sundays. Apparently, I’m not the only one who feels that way.
In New York, The Participation Agency is offering up a timeshare backyard space… Read the rest
Thanks to prAna, we came across this fantastic six-minute video that’s a compilation of clips from the film The Age of Stupid… Read the rest set against the backdrop of Bombay Dub Orchestra‘s chilling sounds. The film sets itself up in 2055, where a man takes the time to look back at
The Good Bike project is awesome. Based in Toronto, its mission is to turn abandoned bikes into public works of art. According to Treehugger, The Good Bike began when a local woman spray painted a left bike and planted greenery in its front basket. The fact that the city ticketed… Read the rest
What better way to respect the environment by playing in it and helping to clean it up? Here at Wend… Read the rest, we believe that experiencing the environment and caring for it go hand in hand–you can’t have one without the other–so we’re thrilled to see a cleaning event that combines
How to Slackline Across the Country
Step 1. Be a cartoon character. It’s so much easier to set a course and attach cartoon slacklines than real ones.
Step 2. That is all.
Below are the culmination of images from last summer’s cross-country slackline trip. I hope this inspires similar feats… Read the rest
File this one under ‘things it’s easy to forget about.’ There was a great article on Slate … Read the restlast week in which writer Brian Palmer asked and answered a pretty interesting question: how far does one have to ride on a bicycle to cancel out the carbon that went in to
