Casting daily: ‘Brad Pitt is saving Planet Earth in Copenhagen’
Posted on | December 9, 2009 | No Comments
From the London Guardian's daily picture gallery of the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen: "The director Tue Biering (right) and assistant Marijana Jankovic (left) go through the script with a potential actor wearing a wig and sunglasses during the casting for a film called Brad Pitt is saving Planet Earth in Copenhagen. Every day someone is chosen to act in one scene, culminating in 12 scenes making a movie which will be screened on the internet at the end of the climate conference." Click on the image to be taken to the entire Guardian photo gallery. This photo: Adrian Dennis / AFP / Getty Images
Chance of rain
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
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Copenhagen
Posted on | December 8, 2009 | No Comments
Global warming video is projected onto a floating cube. The scale of the CO2 cube installation represents one tonne of carbon dioxide, the amount an average person in an industrialized country emits each month. Photo: Peter Dejong, Associated Press. For the rest of the Copenhagen photo gallery from the London Guardian, click on the image.
Click here for the home page of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cophenhagen.
The week that was, 11/29/2009-12/5/2009
Posted on | December 6, 2009 | No Comments
"Untroubled waters," 1931, from "Behold the day: The color block prints of Frances Gearhart" at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Click on the image for more prints by Gearhart, a link to the gallery and the curator's essay on the show, which runs through January 31st. Listing via Deborah Netburn at latimes.com.
“The dinosaurs didn’t know it was coming. We do. … Scientists might think that the right information in the right place is enough to move people to moral action, but that’s a logical mistake.” — philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore, “Water — Do we have any moral obligation to the future?” WaterWired, December 4, 2009
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Earth and us
Posted on | December 5, 2009 | No Comments
This week WaterWired posted a lecture by philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore in which Moore asks the question that sticks in the caw of any environmentalist:
How can we be aware of impending cataclysm and still be doing so little, if anything, to lessen the impacts of climate change?
“We know that immediate action by us is the thing that can change the direction of this asteroid,” she says, “But that knowledge hasn’t moved us to action … So the question I would ask is: What’s missing?”
According to Moore, the ever louder warnings of scientists aren’t enough. We need to actively decide that it’s wrong to wreck the world.
To hear the whole lecture, click here. As enticement, WaterWired also has Jon Stewart on “Climategate.”
This posting has been updated. The headline has been changed and the Stewart link added.
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