We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth’s climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to [...]

Paper or electric? The hand-drying dilemma. Found at Slate V.

This trailer for Fuel was found at YouTube from thefuelfilm via Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop: “An algae-powered Toyota Prius (“Algaeus”) recently completed a 3,750-mile, cross-the-USA journey to publicize the opening of a film called “Fuel.” The car got 152 miles per gallon in the city and used battery, algae, and conventional gasoline power. Read more about [...]

It is now all the rage in the Age of Al Gore and Obama, but can you remember when everyone in America was not Going Green? Visually stunning, vastly entertaining and awe-inspiring, Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement—from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 [...]

These images were filmed during the 2006 Climate Change College, during which 6 students from the UK and the Netherlands ventured into the arctic wilderness to be trained as climate change ambassadors. Found at Vimeo from icescapes.

NASA’s been tracking the thinning of the ozone layer the south pole for nearly 20 years. In this slowed-down animation, you can watch the ozone hole’s average size each October. Found at YouTube from Wired.

This hilarious political attack ad spoof smearing the environment was aired on this season’s finale of Real Time With Bill Maher. Work Warning: Contains profanity.

Al Gore’s documentary film fom Paramount about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, opened yesterday. Gore was right. He did, after all, literally write the book on the subject. Hell, Jimmy Carter was right. I’m no tree huggin, granola crunchin, scruffy beardin environmentalist–I happily drive a Jeep, fer chrissakes–but you’ve got to be absolutely insane to [...]