During an interview with Thomas Friedman David Letterman launched into a rant about global warming and the lack of leadership needed to take action. Funny and earnest.
“We are dead meat,” said David Letterman last night in the midst of a lengthy rant on global warming. He blamed a lack of leadership over the last several decades. He also said he didn’t think that little steps like reusing party toothpicks or turning lawn clippings into mulch could possibly help.”
VPO co-founder, Jon Cooksey, and friends, have produced a one minute animated tale of Lou, the frog. In this tale, Lou, after discovering that he is in hot water, figures out just why the water is hot. Yup, the earth is on fire. Can Lou save the day? Will our earth survive?
Check out our 1 minute animated film How To Boil A Frog. We’ve entered it into a Friends of the Earth film contest in the UK. 1800 frames of eco-animation created in a hectic 6 week sprint. We are feeling rather proud.
Chris Martenson’s short video on peak oil is probably the best, most thorough and concise explanation of peak oil I have seen posted on the web. A must see to anyone new to the subject!
This is the link to a video of Bob Williams, a member of the Vancity Board of Directors, speaking at an even at the Rhizome Cafe, Vancouver, March 22 2007 entitled: “The Possible City: Cooperatives in a Sustainable Economy”. about co-operatives in 2007. This excerpt is specifically about the need to make the bureaucracy of our city back into the meritocracy it once was.
The full presentation can be heard and seen here. Note the scrolling table of contents immediately underneath the video player window. When clicked upon, will redirect the video playback to the corresponding point in time of the video archive associated to that chapter. Kind of handy. Useful for one paragraph summaries, quotes for media and groups, and the like.
And campaigns of any kind.
I’ve been alluding to a BC startup company that has developed a process to convert organic material into bio-fuels. CBC’s The National filmed the story in May and aired the story July 14th, 2008. It’s taken awhile to get the video, convert, and post to YouTube, but here it is.
Two things to note, 1) the 6 second sound bite of fame is about the only part of a 5 min. interview that I said rather reluctantly. It’s corny and somewhat misleading, but I guess it sounds sensational (two guesses on who is BC_EE). And, I feel somewhat vindicated as another member of the renewable energy industry made the same comparison; 2) we know biomass energy is not going to solve our problems of an oil depleted world. It’s just another “silver BB” in the multitude of methods and solutions.
I watched scores of footage of town hall meetings, speeches, press conferences and political ads by the two candidates. And there was a strange echo, something I’ve heard before from someone I don’t quite like. So I rewound back to Bush’s 2007 State of the Union and here’s what I found.
