published April 1, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Downstream on Babel ( website ) Earlier this month, the National Geographic’s visually-stunning and critical article on the Alberta tar sands caused a firestorm of negative publicity for both the Canadian government and the multi-billion dollar industry responsible for what some call the “ most destructive project on Earth .” It got pretty
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Image via Downstream on Babel ( website ) Earlier this month, the National Geographic’s visually-stunning and critical article on the Alberta tar sands caused a firestorm of negative publicity for both the Canadian government and the multi-billion dollar industry responsible for what some call the “ most destructive project on Earth .” It got pretty
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published April 1, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via Downstream on Babel ( website ) Earlier this month, the National Geographic’s visually-stunning and critical article on the Alberta tar sands caused a firestorm of negative publicity for both the Canadian government and the multi-billion dollar industry responsible for what some call the “ most destructive project on Earth .” It got pretty
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published March 30, 2009 and has No Comments
Mushroom field guide author Gary Lincoff recounts hilarious fungi encounter in Know Your Mushrooms excerpt (via Filmswelike on YouTube) Humble, largely misunderstood and yet mysteriously fascinating, the modern impression of the modest mushroom never usually goes beyond the typical commercial white button varieties...
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Know Your Mushrooms Movie: End Fungi-Phobia Now
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published March 20, 2009 and has No Comments
Earth, the movie, is hitting theaters on Earth Day , April 22, and Disneynature has announced that anyone who attends the movie during that week will have a tree planted for them. A great marketing idea, but not without questions. ...
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Disneynature's Tree-Planting Marketing Ploy Good, But Not Perfect
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published March 12, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Jonathan Bird Productions The 17th annual Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital kicked off yesterday and will continue through March 22 with 136 eco-themed documentary, feature, animated, archival, experimental and children’s films. This year's festival has several films on oceans and sea life and a special Ocean Film Series, including the world premiere of The State ...
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published March 11, 2009 and has No Comments
The ultimate music confab tries to green the biz with model panelists. Footage from Bruno , the follow-up to Sasha Baron Cohen’s Borat , will kick off the SXSW Music and Media Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas this Friday. Cohen's faux Austrian television pop culture hipster might set a wackier tone to the extravaganza. The 9-day trade show ...
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published March 11, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via: guardian.co.uk "The question I've been asking is, why didn't we save ourselves when we had the chance?" This is Pete Postlethwaite speaking to us from the future, the year 2055 to be exact, where he is marooned alone, high in a tower above the melted arctic, quite possibly the only man left on earth. We learn he ...
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published March 10, 2009 and has No Comments
Mickey's parent company reveals environmental plans. Photo: The Walt Disney Company Disneyland may not be the greenest place on earth but within 3- to 5-years the company plans to minimize Mickey's footprint, cutting emissions in half, reducing electricity consumption by 10 percent, and halving the garbage at its parks and resorts by 2013. Long-term, the aim is net zero ...
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