Archive for December, 2011
With environmental-cartoon topics ranging from Michelle Bachmann to Tim DeChristopher, Breastfeeding to Big Coal, it was an interesting year in environmental cartoons.
Follow this link and spend a few minutes looking over what were my eleven most-viewed cartoons of 2011.
Happy New Year!
Joe Mohr (aka “Mean Joe green”)
Joe’s … Read the rest
This cartoon was inspired by the Washington Post article, “Energy industry shapes lessons in public schools“
Big Coal may be molding our youth with pro-coal propaganda, but worry not, Big Coal also offers a “green” video to teachers called “The Greening of Planet Earth,” which says that “our world is… Read the rest
Part surfing documentary and part environmental journalism, Tipping Barrels: Journey Into the Great Bear… Read the rest is a 20-minute short that’s worth the watch. Surfers and brothers Arran and Reid Jackson venture through Central and North Coast, B.C., wherein lies one of the unspoiled rainforests in the world—a home to wolves, grizzlies,
More on the U.S. public opinion on Climate Change
From Grist: The frog and the polar bear: The real reasons Americans aren’t buying climate change
From PlanetSave: UN Climate Negotiators Wrestle for an ‘Ideal’ Plan that Will Completely Screw Us
From Ecopolitology: Republican Presidential Candidates on Climate Change
Another cartoon:… Read the rest
Trout Unlimited is venturing far south of the U.S. border in partnering with Patagonia Sur, a for-profit company whose focus is purchasing and protecting fish and wildlife habitat in Chilean Patagonia. Trout Unlimited, whose mission is “to conserve, protect and restore North America’s coldwater fisheries and their watersheds,” will be… Read the rest
This compelling video tells a succinct version of the dirty coal story.
For more info visit powerpastcoal.org… Read the rest
More on Fox News and their passionately misinformed legion of followers
From ThinkProgress: Fox News Viewers are the Most Misinformed: A Seventh Study Arrives to Prove It — and Vindicate Jon Stewart!
From HuffingtonPost: Fox News Viewers Know Less Than People Who Don’t Watch Any News: Study
From PlanetSave: Fox… Read the rest
Both the county and city mayors of Salt Lake City, along with the US Forest Service, have recently voiced their opposition to a proposed Utah ski lift, which would link two Salt Lake City area ski resorts, The Canyons and Solitude.
Management from the two resorts met this past fall… Read the rest
The great American writer and humorist whose two Occupy-supporting quotes are shared in the cartoon, would have turned 176 last week. If he were alive today (gross) he’d have been pepper-sprayed by now.
Revolute!
Joe’s cartoon archive, twitter ramblings and StumbleUpon page…… Read the rest
The LABOR OF LOVE series stands for the small businesses and designers who are still creating and constructing products in America instead of opting for oversees manufacturing like many competitors. The video above features Lauren Junker, creator of Totally Tubular Designs, who gets her kicks from foraging through trash to… Read the rest
