Saving Planets Earth
How Classic: Bush At His Alternative Global Warming Summit Caught Between Two Worlds!
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If Climate Change Politics Keeps Up This Face, We're All Going To Burn
Props to ThinkProgress for observing how the U.S. media was completely steamrollered last week by the Administration's "non-shift" on climate change. Now, regarding this morning's G-8 preview, could someone please a search party to LA Times H.Q. to look for some backbone?
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Looking For Cover As Warming-Mania Sprouts
I was just thinking about the season's hot new (spin) color.
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Will Ferrell Shows Bush The Greenhouse
Nobody does George Bush better than Will Ferrell. (Watch out for the frisbee.)
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Al's Big Room, Nancy's Glacier, And All That Green Cred
Yeah, Gore is happening right now, and I'm interested in your take on Steve Pyke's photo. What I'm particularly interested in, however, is the growing buzz around eco-politics. As usual, I'm thinking about "the look of it" with the attendant rewards and pitfalls.
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Post-GWOT Recruiting Poster?
Worst thing about being green: When you don’t have a recycling bin nearby and you have to carry garbage around in your car to get it home.... But normally I’ll take the time to drive to where I am going in an energy-efficient car. Saving water: I collect rainwater...
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America Decomposed
Ultimately, the crisis has less to do with energy or economics or petronomics than the political toxication of America's stature and leadership. That's why commissioning artists to envision an "environmentally-cleansed" American flag is ultimately a self-deluded and collusive one.
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Couple Questions
Would we be seeing this image, however, if Maureen Dowd hadn't set off a Geffen - Clinton flame war, while accusingly referring to Hillary's campaign as "Clinton Inc.?"
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While Dems See Red, McCain Banks Green
PR-wise, McCain started things rolling a week ago at the Capitol Hill G8+5 Climate Change Dialogue. In that instance, the Senator made the newswires alongside climate mega-benefactor, Richard Branson.
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Same Place, One Year Ago
The BAG's Winter '07 coverage wouldn't be complete without paying visual respects to the season that wasn't. If you've been reading about the globe's warmest December on record, or the fact New York City had its first December without snow since the 1890's, it seems the visual media is just...
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There Will Be No Snows
Honestly, I was hard pressed to identify "better" or "worse" images from the trailer for "An Inconvenient Truth."... With the Katrina disaster fresh in mind, the hyper-spinning hurricane on the thermal weather tracker is pretty nerve wracking, as are the pinned back palm trees and the slamming, crashing wave...
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No Autopsy For Teddy?
I still think one of the biggest Katrina stories is the environmental one. There is a lot of information on the net about the ecological situation, and most of it is pretty disturbing. According to the Wall Street Journal (via SEEN), for instance, at least 193,000 barrels of oil...
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Fly E.P.A.
This subject might not be too popular, but the old environmentalist in me just can’t pass it by. A few days ago, I wrote about the tendency for photojournalist to become a little too artistic in the face of environmental problems. I also cited an article in the NYT...
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Shimmering to Death
In report after Katrina report, stagnant flood waters have been described as "toxic stew" and "bacterial soup." Right now, the harm to the environment is plain to see (and smell, and feel). Ultimately, however, its unclear how seriously the media, the public and (partially as a consequence) the state,...
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Smoke Up The Behind
One thing I’ve become more aware of lately is the diminishing difference between political and brand advertising. This is just one example of a noxious player blowing smoke. Before we get to the visual, however, check out the primary directive: "We’re all for reducing emissions." Love the underline! Thanks...
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What on Earth
How far has the environment fallen as a political priority? This is the shot in the NYTimes commemorating Earth Day. The headline? “Bad Weather Forces Change in Bush’s Earth Day Plans.” (What could be more degrading than an article about Earth Day that isn’t about the day, and isn’t...
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Your Turn: Seeing the Forest for the Fees
There’s green and then there’s green. (As if it would still be true.) I don’t believe that the paper published earlier this year — “The Death of Environmentalism” — critiquing the green movement from the inside, was intended as a capitulation. If I’ve got it right, however, pro-development and...
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Darth Norton
Did you ever see one of those old Coors Beer “Tap the Rockies” commercials? Do you remember how that “20-something” guy — straddling a mountain range — would suddenly thrust the beer spigot deep into the side of a snowy peak? That is the image that comes to mind...
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