For Ze Frank…

Just try to find it. It DOES NOT EXIST! Yours will be granny smith apple green. I have to learn to knit first though. Or outsource the knitting part.
It will be kinda like this without the white stripes(cough-LAME!):

Support Grassy Narrows First Nation

The Grassy Narrows First Nation has lived self-sustainably on their Northern Ontario land for generations. However, imperialism and enterprise has made their way of life all but impossible. Their land has been leased by the Canadian government to logging giants Weyerhaeuser and Abitibi, who have clearcut the forests and poisoned the water with their paper mills. The Grassy Narrows community has tried nearly every avenue for getting the multinational corporations to leave their land, but all pleas have fallen upon deaf ears. Finally, this spring they decided to take the fight to the international level, rallying organizations from around the world to support their cause. Find out how you can help at http://freegrassy.org.

Go here for a FreeSpeechTV video report. 

Juicy Pods!

OK this is a similar idea. Juicy Pods is an RSS feed of audio podcasts and other formats, that I feel are worth passing on. Feel free to forward me anything worth promoting.

I like to watch – Friday troubles.

Hi folks,

Just FYI the friday feed was delayed, as my office was shut down Friday at 5 p.m. for some Con-Ed work. The feed is acting funny at the moment – but check back later it should be fine.

CZJ 

Defend Net Neutrality

Please help defend the internet against the noobs in congress.

A walk through the East Village

TreehuggerTV has done it again. Here's a clip about shopping for eco-style.

James Burke on Paradigm

Seeing may be believing, but you still may have it wrong

Alex Grey on Divinity

A wonderful look at an artist I love.

DIY culture

A culture of makers from worldchanging…

Our Nature…

Here is is an amazing peice about regeneration and hope in a post tsunami Thaliand. This touches again on the false premise that our sole natural instinct is to compete in the war of all against all. "I and thou" is a very common response to crisis. Disaster often means that the best in us has a chance to flourish as we act on our communal instincts.

 

Rebecca Solnit had a wonderful essay on the topic called The Uses of Disaster after Katrina published in Harper's.

 

 

Biodiesel – Go fry daddy

Current TV – From the Fry Daddy to your Car

The Economics of open content

Many interesting talks from The Economics of Open Content Symposium

A Natural History of Peace – monkey see, monkey do

As some of you have figured out I have a thing for primates, including us as primates. I am proud to say I am a great ape. (Actually, I’m a really great ape if I do say so myself.) My thing mainly is about how close we are as a species and that sense of recognition I feel when I look into the eyes of a great ape or monkey. It’s also fascinating to me that our closest ape relative is the bonobo – who is a very special ape, indeed. It’s also about our destruction of their habitat. The great apes especially will not be with us much longer without intervention on their behalf.

I am fascintated with the ways evolutionary biology is put in the service of pessimistic views of ‘human’ nature. I never trusted it and now I am happy to report that on many fronts primatology supports a more optimistic view of our potential(s).

Here is the best article yet, I’ve seen on the topic.

Summary: Humans like to think that they are unique, but the study of other primates has called into question the exceptionalism of our species. So what does primatology have to say about war and peace? Contrary to what was believed just a few decades ago, humans are not “killer apes” destined for violent conflict, but can make their own history.

Foreign Affairs: A Natural History of Peace

Robert M. Sapolsky is John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. His most recent book is “Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals.”

Did anyone else break out in serious tears at the end of King Kong? I know, I know – more than one of you left the theater when the three T-Rex kung-fu fight broke out… someone really needs to tell the army of CGI geeks to lay off the bong.