When Beauty is Humility
Human beings should strive to preserve the earth that will outlast them, and to create societies that can work in concert with nature rather than in the pursuit of dominion. To that end, beauty is a form of moral truth.
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Going to War Over Oil
If Obama is going to use a fighter plane to sell off-short drilling, is the media entitled to point the fighter at him to call him on it?
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The New Oil
If oil gets most of the attention, the real lifeblood of any civilization is water -- however we look at it.
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Copenhagen From the Ground Up
After two weeks of high expectations and, ultimately, dashed hopes , the major development coming out of Copenhagen turned out to be the powerful and overwhelmingly peaceful impact of NGO's and intercontinental climate activists. While world leaders -- particularly from the G-20 -- were drowning in politics, activists successfully...
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Burn, Baby, Burn
The implication of this lovely refinery photo is that burning oil, and consumption in general, is simply the American way.
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Copenhagen and the New Activism
I have a feeling that activists -- and the green movement, in particular -- will look back at Copenhagen as the moment when Protest 2.0 began its swift rise to the surface.
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Copenhagen: Greenpeace’s Ole’ Bama
Just days away from the Copenhagen climate change conference, Greenpeace and tcktcktck.org have created a series of posters for the Copenhagen airport visioning world leaders, now past their prime
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BAGnewsOriginals: Fire Watching
I wanted to share this photo with you from BNN contributer Nina Berman of the raging fires in British Columbia.
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Bush/Cheney Suppressed Global Warming Images
When evidence of global warming (courtesy of their own spy satellites) was staring them in the face, not one speck of evidence ever informed Bush and Cheney's behavior
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42 + 44 – 1/2 4850_
I think Beltway-types were anticipating the Obama - Clinton photo op. Seriously, the first thing that went through my head when I saw this was: "burying the hatchet."
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Michelle's Garden
After the insanity of this past week, thank God for Michelle Obama and the emotional ballast she offers this troubled country.
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The Zen Of Midgets
One way to read the group shot involves the miniscule leadership displayed by world leaders at the point the environment and climate change has moved to the foreground of the world agenda. Bush makes a statement to the press upon his departure at the Windsor Hotel Toya Resort and Spa...
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Your Turn: Seeds Of Iwo Jima
New TIME Global Warming Cover: Still running interference for Bush-Cheney-Rove global war paradigm?
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Grayed Out Mao
This shot -- from this morning's Reuters Editor's Choice -- seems a particularly eloquent visual commentary on how environmental crisis has begun to supercede other political concerns.
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Gore's Climate Problems
How outrageous Gore should be visually called out for supposedly pointing fingers at the Climate Change conference in a pic that was widely published on-line
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