published February 16, 2011 and has No Comments
While all the green-themed films currently up for Academy Awards are worthy contenders, and I'd really encourage you to see all of them if you get a chance, the producers of Sun Come Up --a beautifully shot documentary which follows the relocation of the Carteret Islanders to neighboring islands as their ancestral home gets submerged by climate change--recently contacted me ...
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published February 15, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo via YouTube Birds of a feather may flock together, but when it comes finding company for a leisurely morning walk, sometimes even a human will do. Every morning at around 8 o'clock, Dominic Ehrler comes to Echo Park, in Los Angeles, to take a stroll around the grounds -- and for the last 9 months or so, he's ...
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published February 15, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: Franz Drewniak / Creative Commons Sometime later this year the human population will pass the 7 billion mark. As I write this we're at 6.9 billion and ticking upwards by about one person a second, or so the population clock at Global Population Speak Out tells me. Even with the widely (widely) disparate levels of natural resource consumption ...
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published February 13, 2011 and has No Comments
Be a real sweetheart tomorrow when shopping for February 14 by supporting world artisans and hand-crafted items by small business entrepreneurs. The jewelry item above, for instance, shows the meaning of love, literally. This handmade necklace is created from recycled vintage dictionaries by Monique Sherman, redefining the word, as it's phonetically pronounced: luv. ... Read the full story on ...
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published February 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: SabbathManifesto.org One religious observance I can really connect with is the sabbath. A day of complete, unmitigated rest? Count. Me. In. That's the idea behind the Sabbath Manifesto : A creative project designed to slow down lives in an increasingly hectic world. Created by a group of not particularly religious Jewish artists in search of a modern way ...
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published February 11, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images If you've left your Valentine's Day plans until the last minute (again), then Alicia Silverstone can help: The eco-minded actress took to her website, The Kind Life , to list some of her favorite ways to put a green spin on your celebration. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published February 10, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: National Parks Conservation Association There's something romantic about the image of two young valentines, in an idyllic pastoral scene, etching their initials in the side of a tree to commemorate their affection, but tree carving isn't just for lovers. In a burgeoning field of archeological study, researchers are looking to some of the world's oldest tree carvings, known ...
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published February 8, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times As if the cruelty of pitting of two roosters against each other in a heinous battle to the death wasn't enough to dissuade some people from supporting cockfighting, it turns out that during such events it's not just the lives of the birds put at risk. In a twist of irony, at ...
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published February 8, 2011 and has No Comments
Plays about climate change are all the rage in London right now. What with The Heretic at the Royal Court and Greenland at The National playing simultaneously, it appears theater land is suddenly making a conscious effort to get involved in the climate conversation. Nicholas Hytner, director of The National, Britain's largest theatre complex, commissioned Greenland with the express ...
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published February 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: MTA.me Train Conductor, in the Musical Meaning of the Word Public transit is our favorite way of moving large number of commuters around (except for walking and biking, when that's possible), but it's also - surprisingly - the inspiration for a piece of interactive art. Alexander Chen has taken New York City's MTA subway schedule and turned it ...
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