via One Good Move.

Thanks Mark.

via One Good Move.

Read and watch more at Rob’s website: Transition Culture.

Some pretty amazing and haunting imagery from the Midway Atoll of albratross chicks by Chris Jordan.

Artist statement:

These photographs of albatross chicks were made just a few weeks ago on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, not a single piece of plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the actual stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

~cj, October 2009

via GOOD.

Pretty alarming (though not completely surprising) article on Medical News Today regarding cell phone usage.

Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says, “Exposure to cellphone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion participants enrolled. Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of cellphones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia. The public must be informed.”

I would recommend highly getting that phone out of your pocket all day long and limiting time on the phone as well as using some type of headset or earbuds to get the actual device away from your brain.

Or just go all the way and get a pocket full of quarters and start remembering peoples phone numbers again like in the good old 20th century.

+++UPDATE+++

Here’s a link to the Environmental Working Group’s list and ratings for radiation associated with using various cell phones. Looks like the iPhone 3G I use is pretty high on this list. Might have to look into downgrading back to a Motorola Razr which is less convenient for email and gps maps, but will be less likely to give me testicular or eyeball cancer, which I could do without. o_o

So last year saw the release of FLOW about water rights and the developing world, and this year we’ll see the release of Tapped, which it seems will deal more with bottled water and it’s industry and issues.

Also Good this issue is all about water. Some great resources and tips here.

Informative piece on Fair Trade Labeling from Katarzyna Kijek in Warsaw.

(and John Podesta, but watching his part is not so necessary, nowhere near as focused, and i dare say, less interesting.)

A Green World is a Safer One from National Building Museum on Vimeo.

Now, this is a recording of a museum lecture, which means (for those of you who have never been to one) there’s about 10 minutes of introduction and thank you’s to supporting organizations, et cetera, ad nauseum. Just skip ahead. Also, it is a longish talk (Ed’s part is about 35 minutes long).