HOW MANY SLAVES WORK FOR YOU?
Slavery Footprint, created by Made in a Free World, is a slick web-based survey framed around the question “How many slaves work for you?” Going through all the major consumer aspects of our lives (food, housing, clothing, electronics, pharmaceuticals, etc) I checked out the site and launched into the survey. It’s pretty simplified — they aren’t calling ..read more..
MELTING VITRUVIAN MAN ON THE ARCTIC SEA ICE
Artist John Quigley has travelled to the Arctic sea ice -between Greenland and Norwegian Svalbardand- and recreated Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous sketch “Vitruvian Man” in the Arctic ice to draw attention to the ice melt, Greenpeace said Wednesday. The Melting Vitruvian Man, is made entirely out of copper, measures the equivalent of four Olympic-size swimming pools and ..read more..
BRIGHT NEIGHBOR PERMACULTURE STRATEGY: COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION
This video is an introduction to Bright Neighbor. An event designed to rally neighbors for growing and fixing farms outside the city. After helping author Portland, Oregon’s groundbreaking Peak Oil Task Force report, Randy White started a technology company called Bright Neighbor to create a transition tool. Since launching in November of 2008, over 4,000 ..read more..
