Anna Shepherd, the "Eco-Worrier" for the Times of London, reports: "…if you’re reading this, you are probably eco-conscious and therefore likely to be happy. So says research from Imperial College London. Far from being a moaning, finger-wagging bunch of grumps (yes, okay there are some that are like that), it suggests that greenies are cheerful.Continue reading “Feeling Happy? You Should Be. You’re an Enviro.”
Author Archives: Kit Stolz
The Bananas
This is just too silly/good:
A Lump of Coal for the Planet
If you’re an enviro, you gotta love Tom Toles. He has done more for the planet with his pen over the last couple of years than just about all other cartoonists put together, as near as I can tell.
Sunday Morning on the Planet: a Waterhole in Fall
We had so much rain in 2005–nearly fifty inches–that the seasonal stream by our place kept running, a little, all year long. Now it’s late fall, almost winter, and the pools have turned a lovely Zen green, from the tiny seeds the alders drop in profusion. A good rain, and all this will be sweptContinue reading “Sunday Morning on the Planet: a Waterhole in Fall”
O El Nino, Where Art Thou?
Here’s a graphic from my equaintance Bill Patzert at JPL that explains as succinctly as possible why this year’s vaunted El Nino may miss us entirely, but leave the Northwest drenched. (Click to enlarge.) It goes with a fine story in this morning’s LATimes by Hector Becerra. I’m working another angle on this story; ifContinue reading “O El Nino, Where Art Thou?”
The Ecology of Peace
The new Pope, Benedict XVI, in his message for the first day of the new year, had some fascinating remarks to make about "the ecology of peace." Listen to this: Alongside the ecology of nature, there exists what can be called a “human” ecology, which in turn demands a “social” ecology. All this means thatContinue reading “The Ecology of Peace”
the earth’s embrace
What does it mean to say that a movie, or a photograph, or a book, or any such human work, is "environmental?" Because the word cuts both ways. If I direct a movie that looks hard at the way oil is produced in the Middle East–the deals that must be made, the deaths that mustContinue reading “the earth’s embrace”
General Motors: Unclear On the Enviro Concept
General Motors makes a statement at the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica this weekend, which featured bicycle networks, old cars being converted to biodiesel, new electric cars, veggie cars…and one enormous SUV. Which was widely shunned, I can attest.
Cut the Crap, Mr. President
Admiration and respect to Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post, who despite blogging for a major newspaper and taking a full measure of heat from right-wing partisans, continues to dog the Current Occupant’s every move, putting his every press conference, every idiotic quote, every bungling misstep on the record forever. The column is heavily linkedContinue reading “Cut the Crap, Mr. President”
Thanks Again, John
Last year Rolling Stone put up on its site a l970 interview with an embittered but very much alive John Lennon, who was brutally frank on a vast array of topics to Jann Wenner. A friend sent me the digitized recordings. (last time I looked on the RS site, I couldn’t find them, I’m sorryContinue reading “Thanks Again, John”
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