being green, environmentalism, and futurists
Some links, from more-or-less recent bookmarks. The long-promised Critique of Pure Reason As Applied To The EWG Sunscreen List will be coming up next week; like the last few Grand Epics (e.g. vitamin C serums), it’ll be in the form of several posts over the course of the week.
- “Beating our consumption habit,” BBC Future / Smart Planet, 2012-07-12
- Why I’m leery about getting an iPad (much as I lust after the damn things)
- “The joylessness of shopping,” BBC News (Science & environment), 2012-05-24
- More from BBC Future / Smart Planet column: “Choices for the future of the human planet. Science and environment writer Gaia Vince takes you on a journey through the Anthropocene – the age of man – identifying the planet’s limits and what we can do about them.”
- That column’s first post: “The Anthropocene: Welcome to the Age of Modern Man” (2012-02-09)
- Futuresearch.com – Futurist FAQ, The Futurist | World Future Society, Futurist – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, Futures studies – Wikipedia, and a bunch of other stuff on futurists and science fiction
- A couple of recent jolly good reads: bridges and intersections between science-fiction writers / speculative fantasists and professional futurists in industry:
- New book (not read): Elizabeth L Cline, Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion (New York: Penguin, 2012); more at Penguin USA & at the author’s site
- Cline’s blog, The Good Closet
- Jezebel piece on and around the book, plus comments: “How to shop for clothing ethically and sustainably (without spending a fortune)” (2012-07-09)
- Fashionista: “Overdressed‘s Author Gives Us 8 Tips on How To Avoid the Fast Fashion Frenzy and Still Not Spend a Ton on Clothes” (2012-07-06)
- Save The Children report on the status of women worldwide, leading to this in the National Post (2012-07-12) and this in Jezebel (2012-07-07)
- À propos, and eerily from just a few days before: Cat and Girl, “Barbie’s Dream Dystopia” (2012-07-03):
Cat and Girl, “Barbie’s Dream Dystopia”: http://catandgirl.com/?p=3756 (image links to the original webcomic)
