Houses built: 0.20 Injuries: Alteration to my DNA. Any child of mine would come out looking all prickly now. Some profound emotional scarring. Possible PTSD. Alcohol consumed: Now let me see. Already a couple of bags of bottles have gone to the recyclers, but I can still see two bottles of...

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A few months ago, I had the pleasure of going to a talk on campus by L. M. Bogad . He is a professor at UC Davis and spoke on the topic of performance-based activism. He’s been involved with number of groups , including Billionaires for Bush and The Yes Men . On his website, he has vi...

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I’ve been working for the past several years to find a way to discuss what has come to be known as “electronic literature ” �&qu ot; it’s a creaky phrase that doesn’t survive parsing, hence the wavering between this term, “new media writing,” “digital literature,” etc. �" in...

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It’s been years since coal mining stopped in Nanaimo, but now there’s a proposal for a coal mine at Fanny Bay in the Comox Valley. (Info at NoCoalMine.net , Coal Watch Comox Valley , and in this newspaper article .) Of course this is a serious matter. Those who work to pre...

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Scientist Makes Poop Burger : evan : This is disturbingly similar to a Yes Men hoax from 2002 . The Yes Men posed as McDonalds and WTO reps, and gave a college lecture describing a new solution to world hunger involving “recycled food.” Except this time it’s real. Eww. Delicious...

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An interesting wee film to watch online (a Norwegian TV documentary) “The lightbulb conspiracy” details a process that few people outside of manufacturing industry’s are even aware exists. So-called “ planned obsolescence ” or to put it in less PC terms, manufacturers desi...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 6, 2011 Dow Chemical Greenwashing Campaign Exposed Watch the Video America’s Largest Chemical Maker Doesn’t Want You to See When a Dow Chemical PR firm asked author Anna Lapp� to contribute a video about the future of water for Dow’s flashy new &#...

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Republicans convicted of vote-rigging in KY; but what’s to be done about Wisconsin ? " Thanks to serious chain of custody violations in Wisconsin --- such as ballot bags discovered to have been left "wide open" and unsealed in Waukesha County, and ballots left completely unsecur...

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Mountain Film inspired me to be a writer for good. I actually came to the world of journalism predisposed to telling stories about people working toward the benefit of others and the preservation of our planet. But the annual celebration of adventure culture in Telluride, Colorado has helped to foc...

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En esta sección acostumbramos publicar campañas publicitarias sociales transparentes y con mensajes impactantes, pero hoy presentamos una campaña que despierta controversia al ironizar sobre las campañas de limpieza de imagen (o greenwashing) de las compañías que más daño le hacen al...

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