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treedomproject: Here is The Treedom Project video. Super proud...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:07:43 -0400

Here is The Treedom Project video. Super proud of this an excited for the next 30 days. Feel free to share this as much as possible especially with your friends in New York City.

Let Treedom Ring,

Rob

Bless you, Bob. And bless the trees.

Entry from the Diary of Theodore Roosevelt upon the deaths of...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:14:01 -0400

Entry from the Diary of Theodore Roosevelt upon the deaths of his wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, and his mother, who passed within hours of one another.

We were this close to reclaiming our yard from the snow. Then,...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:41:00 -0400

We were *this* close to reclaiming our yard from the snow. Then, this.

Damn, hadn’t seen this image of that late March storm yet....

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:35:50 -0400

Damn, hadn’t seen this image of that late March storm yet. Says the guy from Capital Weather Gang: “I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a storm this big before.”

Whoa: Here’s a view of Mount Washington that most never...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 10:06:20 -0400

Whoa:

Here’s a view of Mount Washington that most never see. Taken by a friend of mine 20 miles off the coast of Bailey Island, Maine. So that would make it like 90 miles away as the crow flies.

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Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:37:45 -0500

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Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:21:43 -0500

"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball,..."

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:03:37 -0500

“Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, laying down what’s probably the biggest failure in contemporary climate/energy/environmental communications.

askjerves: The Northern Lights, taken by my friend and shipmate...

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:29:02 -0500

askjerves:

The Northern Lights, taken by my friend and shipmate Shiro Takatani from the deck of the Noorderlicht, using some kind of fancy lens and tripod contraptions, somewhere on the coast of Greenland. [More shots from the voyage by clicking on the photo. ]

Five years since Whitman and Brown, sitting around the dinner table in the transient room-for-let hub we affectionately called the Treehouse, convinced me to start one of these Tumblogs. Five years. I think I was much better at it back then. Might just start reposting things from five years ago. Get back to the roots and all that. Five years. Good grief.

texnessa: shorterexcerpts: I doubt we’ll hear much about it...

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 14:11:02 -0500

texnessa:

shorterexcerpts:

I doubt we’ll hear much about it here, because people might think what Iceland did is a better solution than whatever turd sandwich we get in a “grand bargain”. (Likewise, we’ve heard only a little about how austerity isn’t working too well in the EU, and of that, only recently.)

Because y’all don’t watch BBC World News.

And maybe because Iceland has about half as many citizens as Vermont. No knock on Iceland. It’s just small and they can do things like these.

Drudge Electoral Map vs. Population-Shaped Map

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:52:31 -0500

revkin:

Here’s Drudge view of election result by county.

Here’s a map where STATES are sized according to population:

The Harbor Ring would be incredible. Help it get built.

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:29:08 -0500

The Harbor Ring would be incredible. Help it get built.

motherjones: Bloomberg Businessweek’s post-Hurricane Sandy...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:54:22 -0400

motherjones:

Bloomberg Businessweek’s post-Hurricane Sandy cover story “may generate controversy, but only among the stupid,” editor Josh Tyrangiel tweeted Thursday morning.

Coincidentally, the Climate Desk is hosting its second Climate Desk Live event, featuring Kevin Knobloch—the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists and an expert on climate—and Mike Castle, the former governor of Delaware and a nine-term Republican congressman from the state. You can watch them talk about the question of the day—In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, to what extent can science, and climate science in particular, shape US policy?—right here.

Those crazy hippies at Businessweek dare connect the dots between the greenhouse effect and extreme weather.

Ooof….Romney’s “slow the rise of the...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:51:22 -0400

Ooof….Romney’s “slow the rise of the oceans” laugh line at convention meets Sandy. By ForecastTheFacts

"There is no division, in the physical world, between “climate change storms” and “non-climate change..."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:18:57 -0400

“There is no division, in the physical world, between “climate change storms” and “non-climate change storms.” Climate change is not an exogenous force acting on the atmosphere. There is only the atmosphere, changing. Everything that happens in a changed atmosphere is “caused” by the atmosphere, even if it’s within the range of historical variability. Climate change is just the term we use to describe those changes.”

- This paragraph by Dave Roberts is pretty much exactly what I’ve been trying to say for the past two days to anyone who would listen. (Not many people.)

Hawks vs. scolds: How ‘reverse tribalism’ affects climate communication

jtotheizzoe: buzzfeedceleb: gifsfln: Seth Meyers on the...

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:29:26 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

buzzfeedceleb:

gifsfln:

Seth Meyers on the Steroid Era of storms.

From last night’s Late Night filmed during Sandy, with no audience members.

At least someone in New York is hitting home runs in October. Bravo, Seth Meyers!

Bravo to Meyers. Sort of doubt that he knows Jerry Meehl’s work, but he’s not the first to make the baseball-steroids-climate analogy.

Bruce Springsteen- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), from...

Mon, 29 Oct 2012 14:53:00 -0400

Bruce Springsteen- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), from “The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle.” 1973. To friends and family in on the Jersey Shore. Stay safe.

This looks fantastic. Aurora borealis, Churchill, score by Jim...

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:55:02 -0400

This looks fantastic. Aurora borealis, Churchill, score by Jim O’Rourke. Can’t go wrong:

A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying manmade debris littered throughout the landscape surrounding the town of Churchill, Manitoba in Canada’s Arctic. The film touches on the regenerative power of nature and the futility of mankind’s struggle against natural processes of decay. Featuring an original score by Jim O’Rourke (Sonic Youth, Wilco) a voice-over by Will Oldham (Matewan, Old Joy) and likely some of the best footage of the aurora borealis ever captured.

Premiers at AFI FEST in LA in a couple of weeks. Then at Imagine Science Film Fest in NYC later in November.

"‘It’s a quarter past three on Valentine’s Day in Sacramento when the man who has..."

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:14:30 -0400

“‘It’s a quarter past three on Valentine’s Day in Sacramento when the man who has survived cancer, climbs the steps of the starting ramp on Capitol Mall. Ten years have passed since Matt Wilson was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease but he is still earning a living in the sport he loves. He clips his feet into the pedals, fills his lungs and prepares for the searing pain about to swamp his body. The moment arrives and he kicks down the ramp and you are struck by the muted response. “Few of the thousands lining the route have ever heard of him. The messages of hope they chalk on the route do not bear his name. The portrait on the billboard ‘Hope Rides Again’ is not his face. Why not? Is he not living strong? Does he not inspire hope? What is the difference between Matt Wilson and Lance Armstrong?””

- From the best piece yet on the whole Lance situation. Thoughtful, funny, well written. Paul Kimmage: Big reveal of Cancer Jesus

icelandicbutterflies: In a diversion from goats, and caramels,...

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 09:09:47 -0400

icelandicbutterflies:

In a diversion from goats, and caramels, and farming, and a rewind to a previous time of art and politics… I am incredibly humbled and proud to say my work from the Tar Sands in Alberta - the Last Arctic - is being included in a show at the Mendel Museum in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan & curated by Jen Budney. The work was first shown at Anthony Greaney in the spring of 2009 and reviewed in the Boston Globe and I kept an exhaustive blog on my research. Im thrilled to see it take on a new life and to have my photos in a show with Edward Burtynsky, who has always been an inspiration. I wish I could be there for the opening tonight to see what looks to be an incredible collection made in response to the petroleum industry.

Also. If you watch the video. That noise you hear - they are bird decoys, trying to scare off migrating birds from landing in those toxic tailing ponds.

Field trip!

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treedomproject: Here is The Treedom Project video. Super proud...

Entry from the Diary of Theodore Roosevelt upon the deaths of...

We were *this* close to reclaiming our yard from the snow. Then,...

Damn, hadn’t seen this image of that late March storm yet....

Whoa: Here’s a view of Mount Washington that most never...

Photo

Photo

"Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball,..."

askjerves: The Northern Lights, taken by my friend and shipmate...

texnessa: shorterexcerpts: I doubt we’ll hear much about it...

Drudge Electoral Map vs. Population-Shaped Map

The Harbor Ring would be incredible. Help it get built.

motherjones: Bloomberg Businessweek’s post-Hurricane Sandy...

Ooof….Romney’s “slow the rise of the...

"There is no division, in the physical world, between “climate change storms” and “non-climate change..."

jtotheizzoe: buzzfeedceleb: gifsfln: Seth Meyers on the...

Bruce Springsteen- 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), from...

This looks fantastic. Aurora borealis, Churchill, score by Jim...

"‘It’s a quarter past three on Valentine’s Day in Sacramento when the man who has..."

icelandicbutterflies: In a diversion from goats, and caramels,...

We were this close to reclaiming our yard from the snow. Then,...