Archive for the ‘Video’ Category

Carbon-Neutral Commercials and Sustainable Advertising?

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.

A link to the original story is here:

Video of Sleeping Nuclear Station Guards

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.”

The full story in the Washington Post.

Dying Professor Gives Final Lesson

games-of-life.jpgI’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.

From ABC News Article:

Professor’s full speech

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.

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From the Non-Green Files:The Thriller Dance as performed by a thousand+ Filipinio Inmates

filipino-thriller.jpgI 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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[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=hMnk7lh9M3o]

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