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• Recycle or die!

  The KABMAN Game 0

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

  Last week, David Roberts brought you the Keep America Beautiful Man videos. This week, I bring you ... KABMAN, THE GAME.

  I came, I saw, and I collected 40 recyclable items on my second try. Top that, Gristiacs.

• Travolta strikes again

  John Travolta's private plane fetish brings the noise to a small Maine community 2

  Posted 2 years, 6 months ago

  Oh, John Travolta. When will you and your planes stop p$#@ing off the populace?

  Apparently it's not enough for Mr. Saturday-Night-Give-the-Planet-a-Fever to wander the globe in his private planes, trailing an excess of carbon emissions in his wake. He's also got to land his plane near his Maine residence during the area's voluntary no-fly period between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.

  Come on, John. It's bad enough that you're contributing to warming the planet. Now you're going to keep granny awake in the process? For shame, Vinnie Barbarino, for shame.

• Hell hath no fury like a Lohan scorned 2

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  On the list of most environmentally unfriendly ways to avenge yourself on an ex-boyfriend, leaving the water in your tub running so it can flood your former squeeze's apartment sits pretty close to the top. But punishment-by-excessive-water-use is exactly what Lindsay Lohan allegedly wrought on Harry Morton last month.

  This, from TMZ.com:

• Bib you hear the one about ... ? 0

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  The number one craze in Hollywood -- babies. The number two craze -- using your baby to show off your eco-grooviness.

  According to the folks at Ecorazzi, OopC bibs, made from 100 percent organic cotton, are flying off the shelves and into the homes of such glitter-mamas as Gwyneth Paltrow and Tori Spelling. But, as the site rightly points out, buying a few organic bibs does not a true green celeb make:

  One new Hollywood grandma who must rename nameless ordered 56 OOPCs -- that's nine for each of her six homes ...
  
  Six… Read More

• Shalom, goodbye

  This model is no longer untouchable 1

  Posted 2 years, 7 months ago

  During college, I went through an ill-advised phase during which I tacked photos of supermodels I was never, ever going to look like on my dorm-room walls. One of my twiggy idols was Shalom Harlow, whom I loved because she a) really knew how to work the red lipstick and b) seemed like the least approachable person on the planet.

  No longer. This year, not only did she show up on the cover of Domino's Green Issue, she also (as Amanda Griscom Little reported) popped up at the Sundance Channel's Green Party, spouting nuggets… Read More

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  More thoughts on Children of Men

  I too saw Children of Men recently, and I loved it as much as David Roberts did. In fact, I just can't stop thinking about it.

  What struck me most about the film was the very real-world sense of uncertainty. We, like the characters, are left with no sense of what caused the infertility epidemic, let alone whether humanity will have the wisdom--or ability--to remedy the imbalances set in motion by the previous generation.

  And let's face it, guys--we're uncertain about a helluva lot. We don't know which endangered plant species may one day yield a life-giving drug. We don't know where some pollutants will turn up after they've been released into the environment. We don't even know what the carrying capacity of the earth is. And yet, we as a society continue to ignore all the things we don't know, figuring we'll be able to sort it all out if and when our actions become a problem.

  But amid all of this uncertainty lies one scientific certainty--environmental degradation is not always a linear process. Increasing a problem by a unit may cause a unit's worth of damage for a while, but once a system's threshold is reached, we may find ourselves sliding off the proverbial cliff. A chemical considered "safe" for exposure to humans may become lethal when combined with another. Fishing at a certain level may cause a small decline in population, while fishing at another may disrupt the reproductive cycle enough to cause near extinction. And someday all our melting glaciers might, just might, flush enough freshwater into the ocean to shut down the thermohaline circulation belt in the North Atlantic, sending a chunk of Europe into a deep freeze.

  Or not. We just don't know. But wouldn't it be nice if we started doing a little preventative care before the patient gets too sick to save?
  On Best movie of the year, hands down posted 2 years, 10 months ago 81 Responses