Posts from the ‘environment’ category

2nd Annual Environmental Film Festival

I just received an email some of you might be interested in: To Whom It May Concern: We’ve got a great opportunity for your students to…

Read article

Sheila Watt-Cloutier to be our next speaker.

Here’s a heads up (Life Science Institute, West Atrium, Friday Feb 29th, 12noon). Who is Ms. Watt-Cloutier? Well, she’s essentially one of the more well known…

Read article

Saving the Environment

You’re at a vegetarian restaurant with Julie, the hippie chick from your fitness club. It’s your first date, and things are going nicely when, across the…

Read article

An Apocalypse (just for kicks)

Our vows have been long since forgotten, and she has exhausted her patience. Through shearing and tainting and scarring she continued to provide. With increasing frequency…

Read article

World’s Cheapest Car On Market…F#*K

Yea. I said it, F#*K. Although this word has many meanings, and has even had a song dedicated to it, my definition of this heinous (yet…

Read article

Happy New Year! (and keeping it real…)

What better way to keeping it real than showcasing a talk that discusses ways the Earth could end? This one is aptly titled, “10 ways the…

Read article

Synthetic Trees

Could we scrub CO2 out of the atmosphere with synthetic trees? I recently read about this invention. Essentially, it’s a box designed to capture carbon dioxide…

Read article

Typographic-Enviro-Street Art

Cool stuff via via Kate at Inhabitat: London-based illustrator Jody Barton is just one example of the power of graphics as an education tool, producing a…

Read article

“Historical” Research Discovers 1930’s Greenland Glacier Summer Party

photo credit Right now, the 40th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union is taking place in San Francisco. The Fall meeting consists of around…

Read article

Paper, Plastic, or Neither? An Olympic Terry Challenge

  Some Olympic math … The 2010 Olympics are coming to Vancouver in approximately 785 days (according to the monstrous countdown clock outside the Vancouver Art…

Read article