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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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polar bag

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. The other ads in the series can be viewed here.

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tipping point ahead

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s an effective little media piece: Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip from Leo Murray on Vimeo. Full screen is particularly nice, and the well referenced script gives it substance.

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Green cultural studies

Posted in Academe, Cultural politics, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, tagged , , on February 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

“Cultural studies” refers to the study of cultural objects, meanings, and processes, and their production and use in contemporary society. It is an interdisciplinary field with a twin commitment to intellectual rigor and social relevance. While the “rigor” piece sometimes means “objectivity,” often it involves a questioning of the assumption that objectivity and subjectivity can […]

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climate change victims

Posted in Eco-culture, Media ecology, tagged , on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

On a visit to Ohio this week, I caught about ten minutes of an interview on a network TV station with a representative from the Maldives, talking about the plight they face with rising sea levels and the urgency of doing something about climate change at the Poznan, Poland, meeting. (See more.) It got me […]

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