There is a person who’s columns I regularly read, because I often find it fun to disagree with him. This person is George Will, conservative commentator and phony-baloney. I call him a phony-baloney, because it seems to fit with the old-fashioned bow tie he sometimes chooses to wear on television programs like Sunday’s political talk show on ABC, This Week. Why is he a phony-baloney? Well, most of all because he is one of the few members of the mainstream press who still perpetuates the myth that global warming might not exist, even though approximately 99% of the scientific community agrees that it is occuring and that it is most likely a phenomenon urged on by the human race. My primary case in point against phony-baloney, is his attack today in The Washington Post on the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the past few years, Witold Rybczynski has penned some of the more fascinating pieces that I have read online. He writes about a range of urban planning, architectural, and landscape design topics with an acute sense of how these fields are intrinsically connected to social and environmental issues. Rybczynski publishes many of his pieces in Slate. They often come in the form of well-crafted “slide-show essays” that use photographs to expertly illustrate the themes and ideas that he chooses for discussion.
Here’s a new wrinkle to advertising, photo and film shoots that are tracked and quantified for the amount of pollutants they produce during a shoot.
A London-based environmental engineering firm has created the tracking software, and it’s been used in the production of several TV commercials. Here’s Hoag Levins of Advertising Age with a report.
What more can one say? CBS shocked the industry with this video of guards sleeping at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. They just happen to be in what they called “the ready room.”
I’ve reached my threshold of impending doom news for the day. Instead, I’d like to focus on what’s important: life, now. WWIII is on the horizon, the ice caps are melting and Britney Spears has loss custody of her children and somewhere along the lines we forget that before the planet meets its end, we will.
No matter how many articles your read or blogs your write, the end is always coming. For some it’s 40 years from now, for others its 4 months. No one wins. And as we hear a thousand times, we should make every day count.
Today, I’m working outside.
Watch the video below, this isn’t a you tube 2 minute tribute — so grab a glass of wine (or bottle) and…learn.
Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old computer-science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, has terminal cancer and expects to live for just a few more months.
This week, he said goodbye to his students and the Pittsburgh college with one last lecture called “How to Live Your Childhood Dreams,” on his life’s journey and the lessons he’s learned.
The Wall Street Journal called it “the lecture of a lifetime” and those who have seen it have more than agreed.
I reserve the right to post something once a week or so that has nothing to do with saving the world, the environment, or green.
Here’s a video of 1,500 inmates at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in Cebu, Philippines practicing a large scale recreation of Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
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There is a person who’s columns I regularly read, because I often find it fun to disagree with him. This person is George Will, conservative commentator and phony-baloney. I call him a phony-baloney, because it seems to fit with the old-fashioned bow tie he sometimes chooses to wear on television programs like Sunday’s political talk show on ABC, This Week. Why is he a phony-baloney? Well, most of all because he is one of the few members of the mainstream press who still perpetuates the myth that global warming might not exist, even though approximately 99% of the scientific community agrees that it is occuring and that it is most likely a phenomenon urged on by the human race. My primary case in point against phony-baloney, is his attack today in The Washington Post on the listing of polar bears as a threatened species. Read the rest of this entry »
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I reserve the right to post something once a week or so that has nothing to do with saving the world, the environment, or green.
