Tag Archives: environment
links for 2010-03-15: Red Squirrels
POV – Nutkin's Last Stand | PBS Eccentric northerners on a mission to keep the Greys at bay. Weird racist undertones. (via @bengoldacre) (tags: squirrels documentary PBS environment)
links for 2009-12-17: TV-as-art, Copenhagen fudgerama
Emily Nussbaum on When TV Became Art – The 00's Issue — New York Magazine Whatever else the '00s might or might not have going for them, it was beyond serious doubt the most amazing time for (some) television. Odd, … more…
links for 2007-12-07: string vests, punch bags, robot violinist, henge tunneling, lyrical terrorist
eBay Seller: crystal passion dezigns ltd: Men’s Clothing, Men’s Accessories items on eBay.co.uk String vests not becoming historical garb, despite the Guardian’s daft story. I do not own a string vest, alas. (tags: string-vest ebay BBC daft) Store withdraws man-shaped … more…
“Mushroom Faking” by Dexter Petley
From Caught By The River, which is new to me: Seasons have become increasingly meaningless. Weather patterns within very localised habitats are the key to mushroom knowledge, and the resulting forest-craft is no different to water-craft. I learned this one … more…
links for 2007-09-06: dumped
AlterNet: MediaCulture: Dumped: Could You Survive on a Landfill? Some unsuspecting reality TV contestants who signed up for an “eco-challenge” were dumped on a landfill for three weeks and learned to survive on other people s garbage. (tags: TV environment … more…
Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”
Bruce Sterling points to a couple of sites under the fetching title, The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier: some great pictures of Life in General re-colonising the post-industrial ruins of Detroit, and a blog in much the … more…
Decimating humanity for the good of the planet
The Citizen Scientist (*) offers a choice item for the Banality of Evil department: Something curious occurred a minute before Pianka began speaking. An official of the Academy approached a video camera operator at the front of the auditorium and … more…
Patrick Blanc’s Vertical Gardens
Patrick Blanc‘s wall gardens are relatively lightweight (in a good way): they are constructed of metal frames supporting PVC and felt layers, watered and fed automatically from the top, and planted with whatever is appropriate to the location, and artificially … more…
Absquatulations
No sooner than I welcome absquatulate into my vocabulary (see previous post), I find Plep linking — amongst a great many other things in a fabulously rich and varied catch-up post — to a photo essay on life in a … more…
Carbon rationing, and something of what we might expect to happen instead
New Statesman – Why we must ration the future A powerful and persuasive case for carbon rationing… Today, atmospheric CO2 stands at 380 parts per million by volume (ppm), a higher level than at any time since the Eocene era … more…