Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware on Prezi Here’s a link (it seems that WordPress doesn’t like Prezi’s embed codes) to the Prezi presentation I made for the Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forwards symposium in Bournemouth which took place on Friday 4th March 2011. It was a [...]
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Prezi for Media Materiality and The Environment: Exploring the Ethics and Sustainability of Hardware
Posted in media ecology, tagged environment, hardware, media, media ecology, prezi, sustainability on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Mediating Environmental Change Symposium
Posted in media ecology, tagged environment, hardware, media on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m currently working on a paper for a MECCSA one day symposium called Mediating Environmental Change: Exploring the Way Forwards. The event takes place in Bournemouth on Friday 4th May and judging by the line up it promises to be a great event. My paper’s titled ‘Media, Materiality and the Environment: Exploring the Ethics and [...]
Fate of the World Beta
Posted in climate change, media, politics, tagged climate change, ecology, environment, fate of the world, game, video game on November 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
While being ill over the last week or so, I’ve spent some time playing the beta version of Fate of the World, a forthcoming PC game based around climate change which has generated quite a lot of interest in the mainstream media ( see here and here) The game essentially puts you in command of [...]
NOAA: State of the Climate Report
Posted in climate change, tagged climate, climate change, ecology, environment, NOAA on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recently released a report entitles State of the Climate 2009, which is downloadable in its entirety as a pdf from here, with a web page summarising the report available online here. The findings of this report, which involved over 300 scientists from 48 countries around the world [...]
HOPE: Hummer Owners Prepared for Emergencies
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, environment, greenwash, hummer on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow… Naomi Klein quite accurately described this as ‘a bit like the Marlboro man doing grief counselling in a cancer ward” Without a doubt one of the most laughable and simultaneously frightening pieces of greenwash I’ve seen in quite a while.
From Russia with Love… The Impact on Global Climate from the Champions League Final
Posted in climate change, cultural criticism, tagged climate change, culture, environment, sport on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So last night was the UEFA Champions League Final between Manchester United and Chelsea. The neutral venue for these two English teams to play was not somewhere geographically sensible like Northampton, but Moscow. As in Moscow, Russia. The distance from London to Moscow for Chelsea fans to travel was a mere 2498km each way, whereas [...]
