I’ve been informed that if I were to turn it on, my tv would no longer get any reception, due to some switch to digital or something. I don’t know, I haven’t tried. However, for those of you who do own working tvs and like your info in televised form, there is a two hour special on tonight about climate change. If you want to know more about global warming, if you need a little jolt to start making green changes in your life, or if you just enjoy terrifying tv, I recommend you watch it!
Earth 2100 airs at 9/8 central on Tuesday June 2, on abc.
A thought-provoking and totally inspiring talk on cradle-to-cradle design[1] by William McDonough (co-author of Cradle to Cradle):
If you really don’t have 20 minutes to expand your worldview, then you can watch the condensed version, which is pretty chopped up, but leaves most of the main points intact:
[1] Your first thought, upon seeing that the video is sponsored by BMW may be “How ironic!” However, McDonough and his partner Michael Braungart actually work with a lot of large corporations on cradle-to-cradle designs (though I don’t think BMW is one of them.) McDonough states (in this video) “Commerce is relatively quick [compared to government,] essentially creative, highly effective and efficient, and fundamentally honest, because we can’t exchange value for very long if we don’t trust each other. So we primarily use the tools of commerce in our work.”
