Archive for Global Warming
September 23, 2007 at 1:33 pm · Filed under Biodiversity, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Sustainable Style, The Web
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Take Action, Start a Petition
The Care2 Petition Site makes it a snap to start your own petition. First, identify the target of your protest, then draft out a call-to-action message and decide on your goal number of signatures
Quote of the Day: Carlo Petrini on Taking It Slow
“The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.”
Event of the Day: Farm Aid 2007
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Farm Aid 2007: The Press Conference
While we’re recovering from yesterday’s completely awesome Farm Aid 2007, here are a few clips from the press conference, courtesy of the official Farm Aid blog.
Quote of the Day: Marion Nestle on Advertising to Children
“Adults may be fair game for marketers, but children are not. Children cannot distinguish sales pitches from information unless taught to do so.”
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September 8, 2007 at 10:38 pm · Filed under Environmentalism, Global Warming, The Web
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Quote of the Day: Ray Anderson on Flight
“Drawing the metaphor of the early attempts to fly. The man going off of a very high cliff in his airplane, with the wings flapping, and the guys flapping the wings and the wind is in his face, and this poor fool thinks he’s flying, but, in fact, he’s in free fall.”
North Branch Mocha Brownie Soap
Coffee grounds are a natural deodorizer you can between rub your hands to get rid of the pong of garlic, onions, or fish after you’re through preparing the nosh.
Data Storage Just Got Shinier, Sexier
Personal data storage meets personal accoutrement with this heart-shape Swarovski-crystal-encrusted pendant—part of a new line by Philips and Swarovski known as Active Crystals.
How to Hack Your Swiffer
We scoured the Internet landscape to find the best ways of fulfilling Zaccai’s sustainable dream, so you can haul your pre-green Swiffer dust mop out of retirement and back into action picking up cat hair and errant dust motes.
Quote of the Day: Peter Nicholson on Why Design Matters
“Design, whether in the form of fashion, architecture or other discipline, is essential to achieving greater sustainability.”
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August 25, 2007 at 1:33 pm · Filed under Biodiversity, Environmentalism, Global Warming, Greenwashing, Health, Kids, Paper Goods, Sustainable Style, The Web
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A Very Special Interspecial Reunion
A lion that was raised by humans, but was released into the wilds of Africa, reunites with his former handlers a year later. What else can Treehugger say but “OMGKITTIES!!!11!!!”
Wired’s Artifacts from the Future: Fusion Food
Possibly coming to a produce store near you: Monsanto’s Cinna-Del, the only GM apple that expresses both cinnamon and sugar, only $26.99 per kilo!
Penguins March into New Patagonian Marine Park
Squawk if you’ve heard this one: The government of Argentina is creating a new marine park along the isolated Patagonia coast to officially safeguard more than half a million penguins and other rare seabirds, according to the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society.
Peace, Love, Earth: Yeah, Baby
Designer Anna Mkhitarian reinvents that tired hippie standard—the ol’ peace sign—into physical, wearable mantras that, though unsubtle, remind us what our groovy voyage on Spaceship Earth is all about.
Global Warming Wants to Eat Your Flesh
We’d have used a picture of flesh-eating bacteria diligently at work, but all our options made us want to disgorge the contents of our stomachs, so here’s a nonthreatening—dare we say even cuddly?—microscopic look at the insidious beasties themselves.
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» Plenty’s review of The 11th Hour; includes Leo DiCaprio’s steely gaze of sensual righteousness (0) #
August 17, 2007 at 2:20 pm · Filed under Dumbass Dumb-Dumbs, Environmentalism, Global Warming
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Yes, NASA made an honest mistake, but that doesn’t change the overall global trend. (Read top climate scientist James Hansen’s response.) Why is there still debate over this? It’s not a matter of religion, politics, or personal ideology—in this case there actually IS a right or wrong answer, and the fact is the earth is heating up because of unrepentant, unrelenting human folly. In the end, it’s not about the environment, it’s about the survival of the human species.
The environment will repair itself—flourish, even—after we’re gone, because, as David Suzuki (I love this man) says in The 11th Hour, the planet “has all the time in the world.” But we don’t. We who needlessly, recklessly consume and endure the drudgery of work just to be able to overconsume again, at the expense of another’s suffering; we who have lost touch with the things that are truly important and of worth—we, our children, and their children will just be a blackened footnote in Earth’s history.
Earlier, I overhead two men fussing over the volumes of their iPhones. Thousands of years of civilization and it all boils down to whose ringtone is LOUDER.
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August 10, 2007 at 1:27 pm · Filed under Environmentalism, Global Warming
And why all the concern about retreating glaciers? A glacier would have no qualms about crushing a baby—if that baby were placed in front of it for a century. Luckily, global warming will prevent that glacier from being a Godless Baby Crushing Machine.
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» How walkable is your neighborhood? I scored 92 out of a possible 100, or “Walker’s Paradise: Most errands can be accomplished on foot and many people get by without owning a car.” Bonanza! [via Green LA Girl] (2) #
» Scientists detail the cost of global warming: “Boston and Atlantic City, N.J., are projected to experience once-a-century flooding every year or two. Coastal flooding and erosion along the eastern seaboard is projected to occur regularly, costing billions. And, in Maine, Long Island Sound and other coastal regions, the lobster industry will be decimated by warmer sea waters, and cod are expected to disappear from those waters by the end of the century.” (0) #
» The case against air conditioners, aside from the usual environmental qualms—”To me, summer has always been a time of heat, the sun baking the paint on the bottom of old wood dinghies, small waves breaking, blackberry ice cream dripping down your forearm, and some lucky kid five years your senior fooling around with a kit-built remote control car.” (0) #
» Don’t mean to bum you guys out so early in the work week, but here are five things that are worse than global warming, ay dos mios. Sometimes I wish I blogged about donuts. (0) #
» What’s your Live Impact? Possible scores range from 150 to 900, with lower being better. I got a score of 176—which would have been lower if it wasn’t for my annual flight to Singapore to visit my folks. Chekhov received the lowest possible score and he’s TOTALLY lording it over me. He’s going to be insufferable for the next few days, the little beggar. [via 3R Living] (0) #
July 6, 2007 at 9:48 am · Filed under Environmentalism, Global Warming, The Web
Graphic from Live Earth
In the case of utter and irrevocable TOTAL CLIMATE MELTDOWN, Live Earth has a list of survival strategies to help you cope with your “new normal,” and more important, keep you alive on a devastated wasteland of a planet.
I really hope it doesn’t come to that. I’m not really looking forward to burrowing in the ground to keep cool. And don’t get me started on my camel-husbandry skills.
Related article:
1. It’s Getting Hot in Here: Act Now
2. 10 Ways to Green Your Home
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» Send this letter to your favorite magazines to let them know you want them to go recycled (0) #
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