Linkage: Cloth bags are bad and corporations are local?

Go figure, the plastic industry says that cloth bags are bad! via

Speculative architecture fiction.(image shown) via

Making newpaper boxes into planters. (image shown) Thanks Carlos!

Free e-book on sustainable printing. via

The growth of the greener lunchroom.

Documenting product placement (and displacement). (image shown) Thanks Mica!

The new greenwashing: corporations go "local". Thanks Mica!

Cancer Isn't Cool

Apparently it is possible for cancer to be funny after all. The massive Stand Up To Cancer research campaign, which has coordinated an awareness event with all three major US television networks on September 5th, has enlisted some familiar faces to help get the word out in surprisingly amusing ways...






via Micawaves

Greenhouse Gorillas?

I'm not sure what to make of Gorilla in the Greenhouse, a new animated online kid's series, from SustainLane.



It's nice that kids are being sold something other than materialism, but do fantasy/reductionist versions of eco-issues actually inspire children to activism? And will this have any more effect than the old Captain Planet?



or Toxic Crusaders?

Take Back My TV

Take Back My TV is a campaign to get TV manufacuturers to take responsibility for recycling the products they create, especially as more and more are being discarded in anticipation of the impending change to digital only broadcasts. Find out more HERE.

Environmental Reality TV

A local cable station in Boston has created Energy Smackdown a reality TV show about families competing to see who can reduce their carbon footprint the most. You can watch episodes of the series HERE. And find out who won and how they did it HERE.

Take The Reaper Bowling

A great classic PSA from Australia...

Read A !#&% Book!

This is the controversial parody PSA rap video "Read A Book" which has been running on BET recently... NOTE: This is really, really not work safe (language-wise).

Stop The Bullets. Kill The Gun

A simple, striking commercial from the UK based Choice FM...



via ID United

Stay Free: Baby Vids Make You Dumber

A recent Stay Free article discusses a new study(PDF) that shows that the educational merits of videos like Baby Einstein are dubious at best and possibly bad for mental development at worst. Also interesting is the debate that continues in the comments section between the author and a supporter(representative?) of the chidren's media industry. Read the entire post with comments here.

Oliver Stone on Iraq

Oliver Stone recently directed a commercial for MoveOn.org based on their recent VideoVets campaign. Here he discusses his feelings about the current war in Iraq and making the commercial...

Steven Colbert on rBGH

Steven Colbert's take on the recent flap over labeling of products using Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH) is, as usual, right on target...



via Treehugger, thanks Melinda!