2005 MIT Press Sterling is best known for his work as an author of fictional works within the cyberpunk sci-fi genre, but Shaping Things is a book which largely examines technology, design and sustainability. Sterling is interested in interrogating the types of technological futures we are likely to encounter (a theme which of is of [...]
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Bruce Sterling – Shaping Things
Posted in book review, digital culture, environmentalism, tagged bruce sterling, design, shaping things, spime, sterling, sustainability on May 21, 2012 | 2 Comments »
The Story of Electronics
Posted in activism, environmentalism, media, tagged animation, annie leonard, electronics, environmentalism, ewaste on November 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Annie Leonard, the creator of the story of stuff has a new short animation out called the story of electronics. It’s well worth watching for a brief overview of some of the ethical imperatives surrounding the material impacts of the electronic equipment whose materiality is often erased by the discourse of virtuality.
10:10 Promo Pulled
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged 10:10, climate change, guardian, Richard Curtis on October 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
So the other day I wrote about why I don’t think the 10:10 campaign in general works, and why Richard Curtis’s promotional film for it was destined to be a spectacular own goal which offended people and put them off environmentalism. And today the Guardian has a piece describing what’s happened since… The charities that [...]
Why 10:10 Doesn’t Work
Posted in environmentalism, tagged 10:10, climate change, environmentalism, guardian on October 1, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The 10:10 campaign championed by the likes of the Guardian has got a lot of airtime recently, and today there’s a new article promoting their new campaign video on the Guardian website. I’m not suggesting that the campaign wont have achieved anything good (after all any emissions reductions aren’t a bad thing) but the whole [...]
Penn State Inquiry Clears Michael Mann
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged climategate, climte change, mann, media, PSU on July 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
So the second part of the Penn State University (PSU) inquiry into the conduct of Dr Michael Mann has now concluded… The inquiry, which was set up after the university received a large volume of angry correspondence from members of the public who believed that emails contained in the CRU email hack showed that Dr [...]
Sunday Times Retracts Bogus Amazongate Article
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged Amazongate, climate change, Leake, Leakegate, media, Times on June 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Earlier this year the Sunday Times published a piece by Jonathan Leake claiming that a claim in the 2007 IPCC report about the sensitivity of the Amazon rainforest to changes in precipitation had been invented by environmental activists at the WWF who sought to alarm the public about non-existent dangers which they sought to attribute [...]
Comparing Apples to Oranges
Posted in activism, climate change, environmentalism, media, tagged Bonn, climate change, co2 emissions, guardian, media, UN, US on June 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve just been reading a piece by John Vidal on the Guardian Website about the new draft text prepared by the UN Secretariat at the end of their discussions in Bonn over the past couple of weeks In the piece Vidal states The new draft text is also guaranteed to infuriate the US, which has [...]
Thoughts on ‘Should we Seek to Save Industial Civiliasation’
Posted in activism, climate change, cultural criticism, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism, tagged activism, climate change, grassroots, Kingsnorth, mon, Monbiot on August 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently George Monbiot has been in the blogosphere for his exchange with Iam Plimer in which he joined the bastion of scientists, bloggers and journalists condemning Plimer’s recent book. Personally I found his debate with Paul Kingsnorth far more interesting, Kingsnorth criticises Monbiot for seeking to create ‘Liberal Democracy 2.0′ arguing that ‘What we face [...]
University of Copenhagen Climate Change Synthesis Report
Posted in climate change, environmentalism, tagged climate change, copenhagen, global warming, science on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The synthesis report from this year’s Copenhagen conference on climate change gives dire warning of the consequences of inaction about global warming. The report contains the most comprehensive update to climate science since the IPCC AR4 report. The report emphasizes six key messages, each of which is given its own chapter. Find the pdf of [...]
Mark Lynas, Nuclear Power, and the Age of Stupid
Posted in activism, climate change, Ecophilosophy, environmentalism on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night I went to see the Age of Stupid at the Watershed followed by a brief talk by author and activist Mark Lynas. During the Q+A session I asked Mark to clarify why he has recently come out in support of nuclear power on his blog in a piece entitled Why Greens must Learn [...]
