Eco
Viewing Alberta’s Tar Sands: A Canadian Catastrophe
by Andrew Loewen on March 4, 2013
Business Insider commissioned photo journalist Robert Johnson to fly over the largest industrial mega-project on earth, Alberta’s Tar Sands, and document the process: from untrammeled boreal forest to strip mines, refineries, and tailing ponds. The results are spectacular and richly informative. A bird’s eye view of a made-in-Canada project. The scale of destruction and irrationality is staggering. Here’s part of a statement from Chief Adam (Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) in …
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Space Flight And The Big Awe
by Nick Glossop on February 20, 2013
OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.
On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing stories of seeing the Earth from the outside – a perspective-altering experience often described as the Overview Effect.
The Overview Effect, first described by author Frank White in 1987, is an experience that transforms astronauts’ perspective of the planet
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Climate Change As Viewed From a Pothole
by Nick Glossop on January 29, 2013
While spelunking the Intertubes the other day I stumbled across a particularly rich vein, the prodigious video offerings of one Potholer54. His clips debunking various crackpots and charlatans are thoroughly entertaining, and I intend to watch the Golden Crocoduck Awards closely in the future, but it is for his lengthy series on climate change that he deserves to be particularly commended. If you are interested in the subject and …
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Bye-Bye Batteries
by Nick Glossop on December 25, 2012
The Super Supercapacitor | Brian Golden Davis from Focus Forward Films on Vimeo.
THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition and is in the running to become the $100,000 Grand Prize Winner. It could also be named an Audience Favorite if it’s among the ten that receives the most votes. If you love it, vote for it. Click on the VOTE button in
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Honey Badger creator makes Save the Arctic video
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on October 15, 2012
Lending his particular brand of snark to the good cause of saving the “precious, furry, polies” of the Arctic:
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The Recipe For Extreme Weather
by Nick Glossop on September 5, 2012
Arctic ice and the unknown unknown
In a paper in Geophysical Letters last March entitled Evidence linking Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes, Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison offered a hypothesis that may explain why world grain prices have risen 30 per cent in the past four months (and are still going up).
First, a warmer Arctic reduces the temperature gradient
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What is Slow Violence (at Five-Minutes-to-Midnight)?
by Andrew Loewen on August 29, 2012
Violence is sudden; violence is fast. Violence is bullet, fist, crashing glass. So what can it mean to speak of “slow violence”? At the interpersonal level, slow violence might conjure something like the steady incremental pain of abuse, a relentless emergency rendered as normal, everyday life. Rob Nixon has coined the term as a way of thinking about pollution, toxicity, and anthropogenic climate change, the human effects of which are …
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Enbridge oil erases 1000km of island landmass to demonstrate safety route!
by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson on August 16, 2012
Enbridge has unveiled a PR video in a bid to sway public opinion on their possibly disastrous plan to stretch the Northern Gateway Pipeline across land we’d rather not bathe in heavy crude. Apparently the only way they could make it look like a safe and viable plan is to erase islands from the Douglas channel.
According to an recent article on the David Suzuki Foundation website by Lori Waters, a specialist …
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The Onion: New Toyota Prius so Green it Kills
by Andrew Loewen on August 14, 2012
New Prius Helps Environment By Killing Its Owner…
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Dept Of Climate Change Klezmer
by Nick Glossop on August 11, 2012
Down at the music festival I’m spending this weekend at, Geoff Berner just laid down a truly weird cover of 88 Lines About 44 Women (or maybe it was a different song entirely. It was a little early in the day for both of us). He also pointed out something that seems perfectly obvious to me now, but I’d never thought of before, that the Pinocchio story has its origins …
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Fukushima–Political Fallout
by Matthew Payne on July 29, 2012
Japanese Anti-Nuclear Protests at the Parliament Building (c/o Boston.com)
An event such as the Fukushima triple meltdown is bound to bring heightened scrutiny in any nation to the institutional corruption and elitist arrogance (as revealed in the Japanese Diet’s Select Committee Report on the Fukushima accident) that precipitates such “accidents waiting to happen.” The Three-Mile Island partial meltdown stalled new commercial reactor construction in the United States for three decades–until a …
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Fukushima–Worse than Chernobyl’ for Kids
by Matthew Payne on July 21, 2012
The shocking results of the latest epidemiological studies are in from Fukushima and they are not good. As summarized by Michael Kelly at Business Insider, the report indicates:
Of more than 38,000 children tested from the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, 36 percent have abnormal growths – cysts or nodules – on their thyroids a year after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, as reported by ENENews.
This is startling. The …
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