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David Roberts was a staff writer for Grist. You can follow him on Twitter, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Liveblogging it, only two days later
At the 16th annual conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists, there was a panel on media coverage of global warming. One of the panelists was Marc Morano, Sen. James Inhofe's right-hand man (ha ha). The full roster of panelists:- Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter, The New York Times
- Bill Blakemore, Senior Correspondent, ABC News
- Dan Fagin, Associate Professor of Journalism/Associate Director of the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, New York University
- Marc Morano, Director of Communications, Environment and Public Works Committee, U.S. Senate
Via DeSmogBlog (where I stole the picture above) comes this full audio recording (MP3) of the panel. I'm listening to it now. I shall blog along:
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Lots of random catch-up
Time for some housecleaning. That's right: a link dump! Here's some random stuff I've had open in Firefox (have you seen 2.0?) tabs for varying lengths of time:
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It’s like, get busy over there already!
I have been criminally negligent in failing to draw attention to the fact that the folks at Worldchanging have a book out, and it's gorgeous. (Their website's been spiffed up too, with the de rigeur pinstripe background and gradients galore. Slick.)The WCers are going on tour to support the book, and to draw attention to local worldchanging efforts in the cities they're visiting. To begin with, they'll be in Seattle -- tonight! Go watch Alex rap with Bruce Sterling and hear about the all the stuff the smart people are doing for a change.
You can get tickets here. Check out other dates here.
Congrats to the Worldchanging crew on all the kick-ass developments this past year. Onward and upward!
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From the show Weeds
Showtime's semi-hit show Weeds is about Nancy Botwin, a suburban stay-at-home mother of two boys who, after the death of her husband, turns to selling marijuana to make ends meet. Soon she starts growing too.
I'm in the midst of watching the second season. With some partners, Nancy's just developed a new strain (dubbed "MILF weed" by Snoop Dogg himself) and started selling it. Cash is pouring in, so Nancy goes on a shopping spree. Here's a short clip of what it looks like:
