Body Shop animation video
Filmmaking duo Koja made this charming hand-made 3D stop motion film for the Body Shop on how small gestures can help take care of nature and isn’t it just lovely?
And here is the twitter of one John Johnston:
Posts tagged "environment"
We need to help the bees
Bees are pretty important to pollinate plants and keep the world generally ticking over. Every home should try and cultivate an area for bees to live. They’re not like wasps - wasps are cantankerous devils. Bees bumble along just looking to keep the world humming.
Obama administration greenlights 500 oil drilling leases in the Arctic. Sparks fierce reactions:
Drilling will commence summer 2012 in the Chuckchi Sea, where Alaska and Russia meet. Environmental groups fume. Shell pleased. Rare species at risk.
Here is a round up:
- Approves former President Bush’s stalled plans to drill in Arctic
- Earth Justice sues
- Native Alaskans are pissed: “We have a right to life, to physical integrity, to security, and the right to enjoy the benefits of our culture. For this, we will fight, and this is why we have gone to court today. Our culture can never be bought or repaired with money. It is priceless,” Caroline Cannon, president of the Native Village of Point Hope, said in a press release.
- Shell Oil is pleased
- Crude prices drop
- Pew Center blasts Obama for politics over science stance, issues white paper
- University of Texas receives $5.6 million grant to study “safe oil extraction” without disturbing wildlife/ecosystems
- Home to thousands of rare species including bowhead, beluga, narwhals, and grey whales; ice, bearded, ribbon, and spotted seals; polar bears; puffins, auklets, sea ducks, and penguins; and cod, sharks, and eels.
- NASA reports sea-ice 2nd lowest levels ever recorded in the Chuckchi/Arctic
- National Snow & Ice Data Center: 40% lower than average ice extent - a loss the size of California, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington states combined
Why not use the high prices as a tool to wean America off oil dependency?
