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Global Warming Can Be Fun

Saving the planet one game at a time.

Archive for 2006/11


Local climate organizations

I just discovered the Mass Climate Action Network, which is hosting the Global Warming Action Conference at MIT on Nov 19, 2006. I’ll be there.
I also talked to my old soccer buddy Jim Snyder-Grant, who is Acton’s representative to this organization. He pointed me to a currently-dormant local climate action group, and gave me some […]

The tide is beginning to turn

From the Santa Barbara News-Press:
Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday promised major policy shifts on global warming, air quality and toxic-waste cleanup as she prepares to head the U.S. Senate’s environmental committee.
‘’Time is running out, and we need to move forward on this,’’ Boxer said of global warming during a conference call with reporters. ‘’The states […]

Stephen Colbert on the South Pole

The Colbert Report tonight had him expressing his mock outrage about the South Pole:
“Next up, Ice Core Samples. You know what I call these where I come from? Ice cubes. Oh, you contain information about millions of years of geotectonic history? Call me when you come in a paper cone with cherry flavoring. […]

Documentary Games?

A friend sent me a link to a newly-established wiki on “documentary” games. Sadly, it’s still very new and there’s no definition of documentary games.
At first, I thought the concept a bit odd — perhaps because I think of documentaries as telling a nonfiction story, and I know that I should probably stay far away […]

So if you don’t believe in global warming…

Today, on the eve of the American midterm elections, President Bush invented a new justification for the war in Iraq. While speaking in Florida, he said:
“You can imagine a world in which these extremists and radicals got control of energy resources, and then you can imagine them saying ‘we’re gonna pull a bunch of oil […]