{"id":1149,"date":"2009-11-04T23:53:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T04:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/11\/04\/polar-bears-for-green-blogs\/"},"modified":"2009-11-04T23:53:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T04:53:29","slug":"polar-bears-for-green-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/11\/04\/polar-bears-for-green-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"polar bears for green blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was added to the Directory of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestgreenblogs.com\/\">Best Green Blogs<\/a> earlier today. To honor that I thought I would re-post a link to one of my favorite climate change related videos: the plastic bag polar bears emerging from the subway vent and melting back into them (i.e., the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Stars of the Lid\/ videos\/13063935\">Environmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video<\/a>, with music by Stars of the Lid).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vl4pVLZ8Czg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(But do we still say &#8220;Save the Planet&#8221; these days? Can someone come up with a better three-word slogan?)<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s GP2 (the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch\">Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>, a.k.a. the Pacific Trash Vortex), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainablepractice.org\/2009\/10\/30\/apinews-artists-in-the-great-pacfic-garbage-patch\">artists<\/a> who are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/arts\/journey-to-midway?utm_source=oct09&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=26_tnMidway\">out there<\/a> now. This from Midway Atoll, near the apex of the North Pacific Gyre:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7iBq4_IM9DA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Folks, do something. First about greenhouse gases, then about the impending ocean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/article\/environment-energy\/aquacalypse-now\">aquacalypse<\/a>, and global poverty, and everything else. Enjoying every minute of it while you&#8217;re doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog was added to the Directory of Best Green Blogs earlier today. To honor that I thought I would re-post a link to one of my favorite climate change related videos: the plastic bag polar bears emerging from the subway vent and melting back into them (i.e., the Environmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196,689354],"tags":[4412],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","category-image_nation","tag-ecomedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-ix","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1047,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/04\/01\/polar-bag\/","url_meta":{"origin":1149,"position":0},"title":"polar bag","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"April 1, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ambient electroacoustic artists Stars of the Lid do a beautiful job with thisEnvironmental Defense Fund NYC subway ad campaign video. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vl4pVLZ8Czg&hl=en&fs=1 The other ads in the series can be viewed here.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/vl4pVLZ8Czg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7888,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2014\/10\/16\/the-semio-ethics-of-cokes-polar-bear-mascots\/","url_meta":{"origin":1149,"position":1},"title":"The semio-ethics of Coke&#8217;s polar bear mascots","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"October 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A journalist\u00a0asked me to say something about the use of animal mascots for commercial purposes. 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