Category: Social/Environmental

Image dated, 22-Nov-2000.  If only the handlers were as benign as good old dad.

Found this on a backup CD.  The image had a date of 12-Oct-2001.  Guess George “Dubya” Bush shouldn’t have relied on cartoons like this to decide if invading Iraq was a good idea.

We never were told by Mr. McGuire in The Graduate just what we were facing with his one word future, but now fourty years later, we have a little better idea…In 1968, at the dawn of the modern environmental movement, the editor of Modern Plastics argued that his industry had been unfairly vilified.  Plastic was…

And Man create the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate and the disposable bottle, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy his food all in one place and he could save that which was good to eat in the…

I’ve always been concerned with the fuel economy of the automobiles that I purchase, because I remember sitting in those damn lines in the 1970’s during the oil embargo.  So the very first car I purchased was a Honda Civic in 1985, followed by a VW Passat in 1995, and currently a 2006 VW Jetta…

The following blurb was in the table of contents in Time, 1 October, 2007 issue under the item for the cover story, “Who owns the Arctic?”:With ice caps melting, competing nations see not catastrophe but oil-filled billions.How unbelievably greedy do we need to be before we wipe ourselves out, the latest of our systematic extinction…

Do we really use up 426,000 cell phones a day?  What does this look like?  See “Running the Numbers: An american self portrait” at Chris Jordan Photography to see all manner of our consumption rates.