Trees Out Boxes In

Art Crumb's famous "Short History of America"
The trend continues but which panel at the bottom
is right? ecological disaster, techno fix, or the
ecotopian solution?

"LITTLE BOXES"

Little boxes on the hill side, little boxes made of ticky tacky.
Little boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just
the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes, little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and there's business
executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they all get put in boxes and they all come out the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes, little boxes, little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow
one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just
the same.
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Words and music by Malvina Reynolds
Copyright 1963 by Schroder Music Co.

Green Links

These links are an addendum to the previous post of environmental links and reflect conservation, recycling, eco-friendly programs as well as investigative reporting beyond the big television networks and their sometimes obvious political propaganda.

http://www.greeneconomics.net/

http://www.greeneconomy.com/do/Home

http://www.sfenvironment.com/links/

http://www.greenthinkers.org/blog/

http://www.worldkids.net/clubs/green/links.html

http://www.ecomall.com/

http://www.planetpals.com/greenlinks.html

http://www.throwplace.com/directory/green_links.php

Society of Environmental Journalists SEJ

http://www.sej.org/foia/index4.htm

Investigative Reporting (From KERA)

Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR)
http://www.muckraker.org
Established in 1977, CIR sponsors and produces invesigative projects for television, radio, print and the Web.

Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE)
http://www.ire.org/
IRE provides educational services to reporters, editors and others interested in investigative journalism and works to maintain high professional standards.

Columbia Journalism Review
http://www.cjr.org/
Published bi-monthly since 1961 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, CJR is a preeminent magazine for professional journalists. Its articles cover trends in the journalism and media industries, professional ethics, and the stories behind the news.

The Fund for Investigative Journalism
http://fij.org/
The Fund for Investigative Journalism awards grants to reporters seeking to undertake investigative projects without the backing of a major news organization. Past FIJ-supported projects have won a variety of awards -- among them Seymour Hersh's Pulitzer Prize for his report on the U.S. Army massacre in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.

The Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.aspx
The Center for Public Integrity is a non-partisan nonprofit organization that works to produce original, responsible investigative journalism on issues of public concern.

The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
http://www.pulitzercenter.org/
Established in 2006 as an independent division of the World Security Institute, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting identifies, sponsors, and distributes independent investigative reporting.

The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/
The Smoking Gun Web site uses materials gained via the Freedom of Information Act weigh in on cur

Statistics to Doom?

Statistics to Doom?

Random researching inspired by seeing cars, cars, cars outside my windows near Dallas Texas…

Persons per square mile, 2000 2,521.5 (US Census Bureau)

Households, 2000 807,621 (US Census Bureau)

3,469.9 people per square mile (1,339.7/km²). (Wiki)

To quote the late environmentalist Edward Abbey, "growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Sixty percent of U.S. households have two or more cars, according to 1996 estimates by Urban Decision Systems. Gross calculation: 807,621 X 0.60 X 2 = 969,145 automobiles

Texas fully congested. About a quarter of the Texas interstate system in metropolitan and urban areas is at 95 percent capacity, and an additional 40 percent has reached 80 percent capacity. Traffic is expected to increase 50 percent in the next 18 years.

Example one vehicle driven 15,000 per year with 18 mpg inefficiency

Your total emissions are: 7.38 tons of CO2

Is the media tired of anything related to overpopulation?

Retired Site…The "Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb" site has been retired from pbs.org. At least some websites still address this issue (http://dieoff.org/page27.htm)

Humans have destroyed more than 30 per cent of the natural world since 1970 with serious depletion of the forest, freshwater and marine systems on which life depends. -- [Guardian, 10/2/98]

We call the problem the kankyou mondai, the environmental problem. (http://buddycom.com/animal/envirimg/island/ecodecay.html)

How and why journalist avoid the population-environmental connection (http://dieoff.org/page118.htm)

???“…but the best hope for the environment in the twenty-first century lies in a religious revival around the world that recognizes the human obligation to environmental protection and enjoyment.” No comment, you be the judge on the statement that “Judeo-Christian tradition is the best basis for environmentalism.” (http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=301 )

Sources:

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/48113.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Dallas,_Texas

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2006/10/post_18.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4021/is_n12_v18/ai_18894247

http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/almanac.html

http://www.sustainabletravelinternational.org/offset/index.php?c=1

http://dieoff.org

http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-carsolution.html

http://buddycom.com/animal/envirimg/island/ecodecay.html

http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/interview.php?id=301

Ent from Spring Creek

yes with some imagination and Photoshop, you can create tree beings remotely similar to the Ents of Lord of the Rings.....here is a sycamore that had the right feature to begin creating an "ent" type being.....