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Dec13
Dec8
500 manatees. As the temperatures drop in the Gulf of Mexico, hundreds of giant manatees make their way to river in Citrus County, FL.
Dec7
We’ve got all the information you need about being green even after death.
Dec6
Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserving - Courtney Mattison
Courtney Mattison’s sculpture, “Our Changing Seas: A Coral Reef Story” is currently featured in the latest exhibit in the AAAS Gallery, “Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserving.” This exhibit features more than 60 photographs, paintings, drawings and works of mixed media by seven different artists, all depicting the complexity and beauty of our oceans.
Related article: http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2011/1114art_exhibit.shtml
(Source: youtube.com, via skeptv)
Dec4
Here on the Unconsumption Tumblr we champion the idea of repairing things, or, as our friends at Do The Green Thing like to say, “stick with what you got.”
This story in the Houston Chronicle (related video above) about a Houston-based shoe craftsman earning the shoe repair industry’s highest honor [from the Shoe Service Institute of America (SSIA)] made me think I should call attention to SSIA’s Web site — it’s a resource for not only for repair, but for choosing quality footwear in the first place.
Via its site, the SSIA — motto: “If the shoe fits, repair it” — provides information about shoe care and the names of repair professionals throughout the U.S. The site also features an ”ask the experts” forum where questions, such as “Can dog-chewed women’s shoes be fixed?,” can be submitted and discussed. Check it out.
(Disclosure: I’m a fan of both repairing things and Shoe Savers, the recipient of the SSIA’s award and the business featured in the video and Houston Chronicle story. Shoe Savers has prolonged the life of three pairs of my favorite shoes!)
Nov28
BBC: Hard Rain 2: Climate change adaptation in the Philippines and Viet Nam. Skip to :10.
(via nocarbon)
“The world has enough chairs, right? That’s what Eero Yli-Vakkuri and Jesse Sipola of Finnish metal-craft studio Ore.e Ref think. So they took it upon themselves to challenge designers of the world to not design chairs during the entire year of 2012.
The basic reasoning is that designing new chairs takes time away from renovating existing ones. It’s a message of sustainability wrapped in a ludicrous request that furniture designers will find impossible to heed. And yet, it makes total sense. When’s the last time you’ve been unable to find somewhere to sit? (Your morning train commute doesn’t count.)”
(via nocarbon)
“Even though I am afraid, the reaction I have when I see an injustice takes the fear away” - Jose Claudio on the threat of a bullet to his head for environmental activism.
Chilling doc on the struggles and murder of an Amazon land-rights and environment activist and his wife. Echoes of Chico Mendes’ story are rife.
(Source: revkin)
Nov15
RecycleNow - the making of the sculptures
(Source: vimeo.com)
The curious beginnings of 5 common surgical tools
Think surgery is painful now? Imagine it before anesthesia.
