Posts from the ‘environment’ category

SENSibility: O Sole Rio

Vancouver, 28 June, 2012. The Rio+20 conference has come and gone, and it is time to engage in punditry. As the dust settles over yet another…

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This Snow Globe has a Coal Plant and Emits Smog.

Called No Globe and also for sale at a price of £2000: “No Globes Mixed media snow globe H20 x W20 x D20cm The single greatest…

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Garbaged plastic bottles repurposed for environmental art’s sake #coolfishsculpture

“As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in…

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Styrofoam cup cloud #whoa

A picture I’m sure I can use if I want to talk about consumerism, waste, and our climate. Plus, whoa… By Tara Donovan via My Modern…

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Angry Bergs: a kid’s video game where you try to melt those pesky icebergs to save your oil drill.

This is part of a larger site found at arcticready.com, and it is pretty clever. In other words, it’s an environmental campaign simed to draw attention…

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I WANT this book! The Golden Book of Biology illustrated by Charley Harper.

Alas, out of print and (for obvious reasons) a collector’s item. (Click on the images for larger versions) Pictures by Charley Harper.

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“Have we always had a whale?”

Sometimes I feel like a tourist in my own city. Aside from the usual places (the aquarium, Granville Island, Gastown, etc), Vancouver has many other sites…

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Mix it up in 2012

It’s the first week of the year, first week of the term… A time of reflection and projection. A time to mix things up and try…

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The Terry Global Speakers Series Presents: Bill McKibben

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Terry Global Speakers Series Presents Bill McKibben: Notes on the Climate Fight In partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, The Alma Mater…

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Climate Change “Inconsistent with current Agency policy” -or- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Geoengineering

From Nature News Blog: After raising various objections, Anderson says, the TCEQ recently moved to delete references to rising sea levels — regardless of cause —…

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