Providence, RI: The “Green Team” joined “Camp Metal Head” for hands-on expressionism. Creativity ensues.
Watch and help ‘em win a $2k grant challenge!
(Source: lockerz.com)
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It was a pleasant surprise to turn on WUMB and hear Jane Goodall this week’s edition of eTown, and to hear this wonderful cover of the Beatle’s tune, “A Little Help from My Friends.” You can be sure I downloaded that podcast for a drive-time listen.
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The silence of the mainstream media compounds the environmental disaster with a human one.
You’d think a massive hurricane that wreaked havoc along the East Coast might force the high-profile Sunday morning TV shows to talk about climate change.
You’d be wrong.
It’s time for us to tell the Sunday talkshows: Talk about climate change.Sign FAIR’s petition today.
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Environmental Racism On Display In Google Earth Images
Environmental racism as seen from space, via Google Earth.
In an article by Mashable writer Matt…
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As an environmentally conscious Apple customer, I couldn’t be happier about this.
It’s not often that we get missives directly from Apple to the public, much less apologies. But senior vice president of hardware engineering Bob Mansfield took to Apple’s website on Friday for both, as he explained that Apple was reversing its earlier decision to remove its products from the EPEAT environmental registry. (via Apple returns products to EPEAT registry | Macworld)
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While this is very disappointing, consider how readily people purchase “Whole Trade” items from Whole Foods, blissfully unaware that these are not the same as “Fair Trade” products certified by an independent organization.
Going forward, freedom from EPEAT’s constraints may mean that Apple can make decisions about its product design that would have been otherwise unfeasible—but it also means that there may not be an easy, objective way to judge the environmental factors of its future products. (via Apple and EPEAT: What it means | Macworld)
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APRIL 20, 2010: Deepwater Horizon Explosion
Two years ago today, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused a massive oil spill that would last for months in the Gulf of Mexico.
Soon after the spill, FRONTLINE and ProPublica set out to joint investigate the trail of problems that led to the disaster, including deadly accidents and countless safety violations which long troubled the oil giant, BP.
Could the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico have been prevented?
Watch “The Spill” right here and read Azmat Khan’s “Do We Need a ‘Death Penalty’ for Negligent Oil Companies?”
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Remember BP?
The Secret of the Ooze: Two Years After the Spill
Al Jazeera has a frightening, damning, and infuriating report on the ongoing damage to the Gulf of Mexico ecosystems since the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. It’s been nearly two years since the Macondo well was ruptured, spilling almost 5 million barrels of oil and requiring almost 2 million barrels of dispersants to clean it up.
Fishermen are reporting shrimp catches full of eyeless shrimp, as well as fish and shellfish with oozing sores and black gills. The damage doesn’t seem limited to oil, either. Manganese-heavy drilling mud and dispersant lefotvers are showing up at even higher rates than petroleum.
Head over to Al Jazeera to read the full article. The Gulf has not recovered, and it will likely take most of a lifetime to do so. It’s important that scientists continue to get financial support to monitor the area and that the government keep pressure on BP to do their part. Not just this year, but until the mistake is fixed.
This is one of the most diverse and fruitful ecosystems in America, and we must repair it.
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Mind blown! I would love to see this.
Film: Pumzi is a Kenyan science fiction short film written and directed by Wanuri Kahiu. It was screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of its New African Cinema program.
Pumzi, imagines a dystopian future 35 years after water wars have torn the world apart. East African survivors of the ecological devastation remain locked away in contained communities, but a young woman in possession of a germinating seed struggles against the governing council to bring the plant to Earth’s ruined surface.
(Source: masembe)
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