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Lakoff’s environmental frames vs. Connolly’s resonance machines

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

In Why Environmental Understanding, or “Framing,” Matters, published today on the Huffington Post (and on AlterNet), liberal framing guru George Lakoff provides a useful critique of a forthcoming EcoAmerica report on the framing of environmental and climate change issues. While his conclusions are perceptive and make the article a valuable read — I’ll get to […]

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Story of scary Stuff

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on May 15, 2009 | 3 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvU_vhopKKc&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1 Environmental pied piper Annie Leonard’s 20-minute teaching video The Story of Stuff got five minutes of frantic Fox News treatment a few days ago — which means it’s making an impact out there in the wilds of America. New York Times Education writer Leslie Kaufman, writing about it on Sunday, noted that six million […]

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eyes (faces, limbs) of the world

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »

BLDGBLOG‘s Geoff Manaugh raises challenging questions about Franco-Tunisian “undercover photographer” and graffiti/poster artist JR‘s exhibition of photos called The Hills Have Eyes. JR’s story is that he found a camera on a Paris subway station platform in the year 2000 and has since gone around photographing suburban ghetto rioters in Paris, impoverished and abused women […]

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Earth breathing

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not quite sure what to make of this real-time simulation of the Earth’s CO2 emissions and birth and death rates (by country)… But I find myself mesmerized, in particular, by the soundtrack and the way it adds rhythm, along with a sort of creepy (-crawly) beauty, to the map. It is, of course, a […]

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artist environmental videos

Posted in Eco-culture, tagged , , on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Gemma Lloyd on RSA’s Arts & Ecology blog shares a nice collection of ten artist videos in response to the environment. The others — mostly “classics” by Smithson, Beuys, Turrell, et al. — can be seen here.

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Obama as the “green FDR” in the age of Swine Flu

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

WorldChanging shares Joe Romm’s “The Green FDR: Obama’s First 100 Days Make – and May Remake – History,” which compiles a nice account from Climate Progress of the good things the Obama administration has done on the environmental front. According to Romm, “three game-changing accomplishments stand out:” “1. Green Stimulus: Progressives, Obama keep promise to […]

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Chernobyl, May Day, & the (r)evolution of risk society

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on April 26, 2009 | 34 Comments »

Today was the 23rd anniversary of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine. I had been invited to give a sermon at a nearby Unitarian church connected to both this anniversary and the May Day (Beltane) that’s coming up in a few days, and my thoughts, in preparation, revolved around how both of those dates, along […]

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green frames & nudges

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, tagged , , on April 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week’s “Green Mind” issue of the New York Times Magazine shows how behavioral science is making an impact on environmental policy and decision-making. In particular, Jon Gertner’s “Why Isn’t the Brain Green?” provides a useful summary of how the trendy fields of behavioral economics and ‘decision science’ are being applied to thinking about climate […]

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with Jesus on our side…

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Greenpeace International’s Earth Day video looks like a recruitment ad for an army of media-guerrilla climate warriors. From the techno-martial drumming, rapid-fire camera movement, shots of the troops in action, eco-doomsday imagery (including an image of the sun rising over the Earth looking like a mushroom cloud), and Christ the Redeemer flying over Rio de […]

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Lessig on the ecology of culture

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, tagged , , , , , on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to Mediacology for sharing this presentation on “Green Culture” by Lawrence Lessig from the recent Green Festival in Seattle. Lessig is the guru of the creative commons movement, and his talk, on what he calls “cultural environmentalism,” is really on media ecology, i.e. the “ecology” of cultural production and creativity, and especially on the […]

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amidst the ruins of Motor City

Posted in Eco-culture, Politics, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 13, 2009 | 20 Comments »

As goes Motor City, so should go the world – or at least eco-activists might like to argue that. The archetypal home of American car culture, Detroit, has been decaying for years. It’s now collapsed from a city of two million to less than half of that, and in the process it has opened up […]

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finger pointing at the moon

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I know it’s just that they’ve touched my inner goth, but these graveyard photographs really do express something of what I find most appealing about the idea of immanence — that death is in the midst of life, the two entwined like the dying branches encircling the face of living stone in Onkel Wart’s photograph: […]

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