Hello and welcome to any individuals wandering over today from No Impact Man’s site. I see he linked to me today and put up a video of mine with the following comment…
By the way, Idyllopus, a writer who apparently would rather procrastinate by writing mean things about me on her blog than finish her next book (and I mean that in the most understanding way), posted this funny video about making your own reusable cup.
Personally, rather than being qualified as “mean”, I’d have preferred “challenging” and “conscientiously inquiring”. All posts that I’ve made on the subject are tagged “Environmental – Fun With No Impact Man” and are under the same topic in the Categories area.
I’m assuming that many visitors from NIM’s blog are concerned about the environment, so while you are here perhaps you will check out my Remixing the Hanford Declassified Project, a series of digital paintings and essays that begins with…
That the plutonium dropped on Nagasaki was made at Hanford in southeastern Washington State, or that Hanford is said by some to be the most toxic site in the western hemisphere, and one of the most polluted sites in the world, is still, I don’t believe, known by many. One hears a lot about Los Alamos but not so much about Hanford, though leaking tanks have contaminated the groundwater and created a plume that will eventually reach the Columbia River if not contained.
I grew up in Richland, a town that was built by the Manhattan Project to house workers at Hanford and which remains so proud of its heritage that the mascot of the Richland high school is a bomb, the students are known as The Bombers and the emblem of the school is a mushroom cloud.
Just a snippet, to let you know what that’s about, a subject that gets little play in the media. An interesting history is also given by Jim Stoffels in his World Citizens for Peace and The Bomb article. Thought I’d put up a link to that. And a link to Hanford Watch which keeps current news on the clean-up situation.
And if you’re interested in rampant consumerism, you may want to take a look at my book Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin, because a thoughtful (if humorous) examination of the ethos of conspicuous consumption is one of its central pillars. Less a plug than a nod to the fact that conspicuous consumption has long been an interest of mine.
I’d also like to direct you to a post Low-Impact Crusade over at Stone Bridge. A thought-provoking read, and I hope he doesn’t mind my linking to him as he’s not been blogging much lately.
That’s it. Hope you enjoy your visit a bit. I’ve had a good deal of fun making these very low-tech little videos, inspired by NIM, and probably will be doing more of the same (well, I know I will be, I’ve got one in the wings) because they were fun. And I like to have some fun occasionally.
Thanks for the link NIM, I hope that you’ve honestly taken some amusement from these little videos as well.
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