Entries tagged with: Cheeseburgers

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Carbon Footprint T-Shirts (& Stuff)

Warren Ellis' new "t-shirt a week" project, using Cafe Press, reminded me that, waaaay back in the early days of Open the Future, I tried out a Cafe Press shop just to get a couple of items of OtF stuff...

Posted on November 1, 2009 3:44 PM

A Few Quick LInks

Nothing of any particular depth, but all worth a glance: • You Can't Destroy the Earth. Really. Not even with a Death Star. • Prediction Markets as Futurism? Eh, not so much. • Petabyte-scale Climate Modeling. GEAS, here we come....

Posted on September 18, 2008 1:53 PM

Cheeseburger Footprint: The Video

European education group Sky Learning has added the cheeseburger footprint segment from Six Degrees to the digital video site Brightcove.tv... so here it is: [Video has been removed; here's a new link: http://vimeo.com/4709524 ] Comments, etc., always welcome....

Posted on February 20, 2008 1:10 AM

Scenes from Six Degrees

So, that's me on teevee, talking about global warming. It's actually from a scene late in Six Degrees where I argue that "we have an arsenal of solutions available to us." Just trying to keep on the positive. I...

Posted on February 14, 2008 4:06 PM

Six Degrees: A Request

This Sunday night, at 8pm Eastern/9pm Pacific, the National Geographic Channel will show Six Degrees Could Change the World, a documentary based on Mark Lynas' book, depicting what could happen to the planet as global temperatures increase. The NGC team...

Posted on February 8, 2008 11:56 AM

Quick Links, City Lights & CBFP

Two very quick updates: If you missed the event at the City Lights Bookstore last week, NeoFiles has put the first half of the conversation up as a podcast: True Mutations Live! at City Lights (Part 1) If you listen...

Posted on July 31, 2007 4:57 PM

Cheeseburger Footprint Goes To Hollywood

Scenes from a day in Colorado: I'm sitting on a camera suitcase on a grassy hill along highway 25, a few miles south of the Wyoming border. Cars and trucks whiz by at 80 miles per hour or so, while...

Posted on July 27, 2007 8:42 AM

All Cheeseburger, All The Time

For those of you who (a) just can't get enough of the "cheeseburger footprint" story, (b) are curious about what my voice sounds like, or (c) have two minutes to kill, my "KQED Perspectives" piece on the cheeseburger carbon footprint...

Posted on June 14, 2007 2:20 PM

Cheeseburgers: In Florida; On the BBC

It's tempting to just stick a cheeseburger in the Open the Future logo. The Cheeseburger Steamroller continues its mighty advance, with two significant media hits this week: in the Florida Times-Union, out of Jacksonville; and on the BBC radio program,...

Posted on April 26, 2007 9:37 AM

Wednesday Topsight, January 24, 2007

Let's see, lots of apocaphilia lately... • Five Minutes to Midnight: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has a well-known icon, shown here: the ticking clock, counting down to midnight. Throughout the Cold War, as tensions between the superpowers rose...

Posted on January 24, 2007 9:21 PM

Cheeseburger Steamroller, Redux

The final hurrah -- for the moment, at least -- of the Cheeseburger Footprint phenomenon: my full-length monologue (not really an interview when the interviewer can't get a word in edge-wise) for Treehugger. They liked it enough to want to...

Posted on January 15, 2007 10:25 AM

Cheeseburgers on the Radio

Please read the updated and complete version of the cheeseburger footprint story, found here. The Cheeseburger Steamroller continues, as I show up on Treehugger radio (playing online and on Air America) talking about the cheeseburger footprint story. The conversation is...

Posted on January 11, 2007 12:21 PM

The Cheeseburger Syndrome: Carbon Transparency

The "Footprint of a Cheeseburger" post continues to reverberate around the web, and not just in the so-called "Green Blogosphere." I have an interview about the story coming up that might make it to national radio. The Cheeseburger Footprint popped...

Posted on January 8, 2007 9:38 PM

Welcome, Treehuggers

My post on the carbon footprint of cheeseburgers got picked up on Treehugger, so this little site is seeing a new flurry of activity. For new visitors who recognize me as the co-founder of WorldChanging, the topics I cover...

Posted on December 27, 2006 10:26 AM

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