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Step right up, get your meal worms, wax moth larvae! Unorthodox food cart via @kirstendirksen
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I’ve been waiting for this pretty much my whole life. It’s the future, Ma!
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Ahhh, this just feeeels soooo goooood!
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Odd Future, energy, inclusion, and exclusion
A little over a week ago, for work, I wrote a quick SXSW recap post involving Odd Future — which wound up being trimmed down to a post about Odd Future, and then, after more editors went over it, an article about Odd Future, and then eventually I started to feel like whatever vague point I’d had might have wound up dulled and unclear. So here’s a clearer thought, which is not about Odd Future’s music or Odd Future as people or the value of their work, but more about my relationship with the process of maybe-liking Odd Future.
Because there are a lot of things I love about Odd Future. Some of the albums coming out of the collective actually remind me of listening back to hip-hop from the late 80s and early 90s, when you can actually hear the joy of people creating music because it doesn’t exist yet, and they need it to; Earl’s record in particular has that feeling, a certain playfulness and vitality. And I’m compelled by Tyler’s charisma. I was a sulky teenage boy in the 1990s; of course I can connect with all his grim dark grumbling. As can teenagers today. When I saw the group in Austin, the energy surrounding them was fierce and sort of beautiful. A crowd of kids stood around chanting “FUCK STEVE HARVEY” in an effort to lure the group onto the stage. These were not kids whose lives I imagine being much impinged upon by the existence of Steve Harvey. Was there some point I missed where white Texan parents started boring their kids with his radio show on long drives? On one message board I read, there was a poster who thought “Steve Harvey” might be made up, just an imaginary object of Odd Future’s scorn. This has to say something about the lure of this group, that people want to join them in telling Steve Harvey to fuck off—just because the energy is right, not because they actually care so much who Steve Harvey is.
But then the next night, Odd Future cut short a set at a Billboard showcase—they stormed off after three songs—and I was surprised to see some fans on Twitter grumbling about it, feeling aggrieved or let down. These were people who liked the group’s energy. They just turned out not to like it so much when it was pointed at them and inconveniencing them—when it came off like a fuck-you to them instead of someone else. That’s not surprising: Most everyone wants to be inside the circle of this kind of massive energy, not excluded by it. What’s surprising is that some of these people were less than receptive, months and months ago, when a whole lot of other women and men gave a listen to music from Tyler and Earl and felt excluded by the end of the first verse—because all the ghoulish taunting about raping, kidnapping, or assaulting women wound up disinviting them from the get-go. In fall, Jon Caramanica asked Syd—the woman whose production and DJing underpin a lot of the group’s music—about that. Her answer: “Actions speak louder than words, and they treat me as an equal.” This isn’t exactly a full endorsement of those lyrics; it’s more like a way of saying she feels fully invited within the circle of energy. She’s included.
It’s those taunts in particular that ensure lots of people will never be able to feel entirely included here. There’s been plenty of discussion of the moral dimensions of that fact. Here’s another dimension to consider, though: Doesn’t that just kind of suck, that this group would turn out a lot of fantastic music that unnecessarily dis-includes a big chunk of listeners?
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NASA’s Jim Hansen explains why he got arrested at White House protest against Keystone oil-sands pipeline: “We cannot burn the unconventional fossil fuels and put the carbon into the atmosphere without leaving our children and grandchildren a situation that’s out of their control.” More from Hansen on Dot Earth.
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A Smarter Planet: Welcome New IBMer & Contributor | Edgar Cardona! The Smarter Planet | Tumblr site launched in November, 2008 as a social media project to help people grasp IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative. It uses frequently updated, “microblogging” entries to illustrate how the Smarter Planet vision is unfolding across IBM and across the world. Sample the …
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‘Organized Climate Change Denial Machine’ Mapped.
Posted with permission (Dunlap). From “Organized Climate-Change Denial,” Riley E. Dunlap & Aaron M. McCright. Chapter in J. S. Dryzek, R. B. Norgaard and D. Schlosberg, (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, p. 147.
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Why Is There Still Green In My Funds?
The green message needs some honing to go mainstream
By Marc Stoiber
This article is based on a speech I presented to the Canadian Socially Responsible Investment Forum June 20, 2011.
About two months ago, Joel Makower posted a story titled ‘Green Marketing Is Over.’ Makower believes green marketing as we know it has failed us – the great green consumer revolution simply hasn’t materialized, and green products continue to limp along as niche players.
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Fantastic mini-documentary by Pace U. student team shows the power of persistence and passion as an American entrepreneur pursues her dream of farming shrimp in Belize while sustaining a thriving environment. Press release:
New Film Explores Efforts to Farm Shrimp With the Environment in Mind
“Linda Thornton: Seeking Sustainability, One Shrimp at a Time”
PACE UNIVERSITY, May 11 — In a new documentary, “Linda Thornton: Seeking Sustainability, One Shrimp at a Time,” a team of Pace University student filmmakers explores the life of a resilient, pioneering aquaculture entrepreneur as she pushes the frontiers of sustainable shrimp farming in Belize.
Linda Thornton is the quintessential innovator, but with a deep green streak — overcoming daunting personal and technical challenges to fulfill a lifelong dream of farming a staple of the global middle class diet, shrimp, while cutting environmental impacts.
In this new short film, students in the award-winning Pace University course “Producing the Documentary” tell Thornton’s story, which over three decades takes her from early experiments with urban indoor shrimp farming in Chicago to hard-won success in Belize, a country aiming to build its economy without harming its extraordinary natural assets – particularly its coastal mangrove forests and coral reefs.
Undaunted by a boating accident that in 1994 took the lives of her husband and two other men and left her partially paralyzed, Thornton rebuilt her body and her early Belizean farming business.
After initial confrontations with environmental groups fighting a wave of shrimp farm development that was damaging coastal ecosystems from Asia to the Americas, Thornton, together with Tim Smith, a biologist working for the World Wildlife Fund, refined methods for controlling feed and water that dramatically cut pollution.
Their collaboration is part of a move within the shrimp aquaculture industry toward standards that could soon give shoppers the option of buying shrimp that are certified as sustainably raised. (Visit the World Wildlife Fund Shrimp Aquaculture Dialogue Web site for more background.)
Thornton, still in pain from her injuries long ago, now works at three different shrimp farms in Belize, one of which is her own Cardelli Farms, named for her father. She has also been a leader in improving labor practices in the industry.
In the film, Smith describes Thornton as gritty and creative and a natural bridge builder between the aquaculture industry and conservationists.
“She is one of the toughest and most competent people I have met,” Smith says. “Just a person that’s barely able to walk some mornings and she gets up and … runs a thousand acres of shrimp farms and then comes home and then runs her own farm. That’s not a trivial thing. There are hulls of businesses that were not able to do that all around her, all around Belize.”
The film takes viewers from the seafood markets and plush restaurants of Manhattan to the sprawling ponds of Belize’s shrimp farms and even into the breeding tanks where huge Pacific white shrimp mingle and mate to start the cycle of production.
In the documentary course, created nine years ago by Pace professor Dr. Maria Luskay, a mix of graduate and undergraduate students produce a short film each spring, spending January and February reporting and planning the shoot – which consumes much of their March spring “break” — and then editing and producing the final product.
Last year’s film, “The Life of An American Ambassador: The Netherlands,” won “Best in Category for Documentary” at the Indie Short Film Competition in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Helping with this year’s production was New York Times Dot Earth blogger Andrew Revkin, who is also the Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding at the Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies.
The new film also involved innovative partnerships with schools of journalism and communication at the University of Colorado and The George Washington University, which shot interviews with experts in Boulder and Washington, D.C.
Explore the making of the film on the students’ blog, SustainableShrimp.blogspot.com and follow the team on Facebook and on Twitter through @got_shrimp.
There’s more background on this film and the Pace course in Patch.com.
For interviews with the student filmmakers, Dr. Luskay or Mr. Revkin, contact Cara Cea in the Pace University Office of Public Information. ccea@pace.edu, (914) 422-4268.
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Sidewalk @ 22nd and 5th.
