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Site: Treehugger.com

Posted April 24th, 2008 at 8:18AM

So I stumbled across an excellent environmentally based website the other day, and signed up for the newsletter. I’m on a lot of listserves, and most of them are autoarchived (thanks Gmail!) for “later reading” (ha!). But this one is different.

Treehugger

The site is beautiful, and the huge amount of articles and content: easily accessible. I actually find myself reading the newsletter on a daily basis. One recent one re: Nalgene bottles and Bisphenol A was remarkably levelheaded (expectedly, moreso than the evening news hysteria).

Today’s newsletter covered what they deem an international food shortage. Instead of the easy, popular knee-jerk reaction of blaming rising food costs on ethanol production, they point to several factors, including…

a world population increasing by 70 million each year,
increasing numbers of people latching onto a “western” diet, one which…
eats beef, which takes 2500 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat.

Along with the newsletter in your inbox, comes (usually) the longer article on their website, AND a related poll and active discussion. Today’s? Should food labelling show the water footprint?

Summary? Go to the website named “Treehugger” to annoy morons. Stay to get edukated.

Link: Zen Habits

Posted September 24th, 2007 at 3:28PM

zen habits

Zen Habits covers: achieving goals, productivity, being organized, GTD, motivation, eliminating debt, saving, getting a flat stomach, eating healthy, simplifying, living frugal, parenting, happiness, and successfully implementing good habits.

A lot of good, entertaining, and interesting reads on a broad variety of subjects. Well worth a flip through every so often.

Bonus: Take the 100 things challenge.

Link: Protesting Cartography

Posted December 7th, 2006 at 1:20PM

Protesting Cartography or Places the United States has Bombed

Originally the series was called Everywhere the United States has Bombed, but as I learn about covert actions, mis- and dis-information, it would be irresponsible for me to call it that. Sometimes I think the title should be The United States has Bombed Everywhere.

These drawings are manifestations of self-education on the subjects of U.S. military interventions, geography, politics, history, cartography, and the language of war. The drawings are also a means to educate others. I make them beautiful to seduce the viewer so that she will take a closer look, read the accompanying information that explains the horror beneath the surface. I wish for the viewer to be captured by the colors and lost in the patternsâ€”as one would be if viewing an Impressionist paintingâ€”and then have the optical pleasure interrupted by the very real dots, or bombs, that make up the drawing. Unlike an Impressionist painting, there is no sense of light in these drawings. And unlike typical landscape paintings, these drawings are based on surveillance, military, and aerial photography and maps.

Protesting Cartography or Places the United States has Bombed

And the rest of the site is equally interesting.

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