I've had half an eye tonight on Sundance Channel's "The Green": an episode of "It's Not Easy Being Green"; a short doc on carbon-offsets company TerraPass; etc. And it's good! Simple, matter-of-fact stories of people making good things happen. Thumbs up.
Wanna see what you'd look like as a chimp? "YouWild" -- somewhere between a wildlife campaign and a classic Internet timesuck -- will blend a critter's face with a photo of yours. giving you an image you can send to friends or save to your MySpace, etc.
Blog "carnivals" seem to be popping up in all sorts of cultural niches. Works like so: each week, a different green blogger "hosts" the carnival by writing a round-up of action in other green blogs; sometimes a topic is chosen in advance.
Authored by Sir Nicholas Stern (former World Bank chief economist; current head of the UK Gov'ts Economic Service), the landmark "Stern Review" concludes that the benefits of strong early action far outweigh the costs of ignoring it. The NYer summarizes.
Newsweek's take on global warming's arrival as a true hot button issue, with an Ad Council campaign and a lot of Hollywood star power shining light on it. Several other features, including multimedia, packaged with this article.
Heavy-duty discussion of energy technologies, markets, Peak Oil news, etc from a career energy professional and engineer. Great blogroll!
Sierra Club executive director Pope's blog, started March 05, powered by Blogger. Appears within the Sierra Club website nav, which may not have been the best choice.
Blogs about the environment approaching critical mass. "At the same time that blogging has taken off, we've also had a real zeitgeist shift where suddenly the idea of living in a green and prosperous way is really hot." -- Worldchanging's Alex Steffen
Profeta: "People support environmental protection, but they looked at it through the economic effects, through moral obligations to future generations, through health effects, etc. And you had to appeal to their interests through all those lenses." Bingo.
"As voluntary associations fade from our cultural landscape, political participation is threatened, especially on the left, says sociologist Marshall Ganz." Really interesting Grist interview about how to grow (or re-grow) a true movement.
"the petroleum economy [is] the fundamental linchpin of our present democratic society [and] cheap oil/energy/gas [is] quietly fading into history. We are here to talk about ideas; we want to bring brain power to bear."
Ethan Zuckerman (GlobalVoices founder and WorldChanging board chair) gives blow-by-blow of Gore's climate talk at Technology, Entertainment, Design conference; much good discussion ensues.
Great idea -- a wiki-based (i.e., collaborative) "online catalog" of great products, ideas, materials, resources that bit by bit can add up to a more sustainable way of life, for individuals and for the human community as a whole.
