- . Digg It
- . Sphere It
- . E-mail This
- . Save to del.icio.us
- . Permanent Link
Earth Day Reading
The day when all the media's issues are green
If everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, then everybody's green on Earth Day. At least the media is, anyway. Seems like every magazine has a special "green" issue to mark the occasion. The really good news: You can read most of it online, so no trees have to die. Here's a round-up of Do-Gooder's favorites.
New York Times Magazine: Last Sunday's issue is packed with green goodies. My favorite is Michael Pollan's essay, "Why Bother?" After dealing with all the excuses people (and pundits) make for why individual action isn't enough to tackle the climate crisis, Pollan argues against what he calls the "cheap energy mind" that convinces us that our problems can only be solved by experts. As a small step toward helping the planet and a giant step toward making ourselves more independent, he calls for planting a garden. Benefits: great food, near zero cost, lots of exercise, and real solar energy (you know, cuz the sun makes plants grow). Also fun: the web-only word game with hints on how you can act, eat, invent, learn, live, move, and build.
Time Magazine: Apparently there's been some "controversy" about Time's adaptation of the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising as a tree-planting. But if you believe that the climate battle will be as decisive for our generation as WWII was for our grandfathers, then the image is actually an homage. Our fave feature of Time's enviro issue is the list of top 15 green websites. MOLI content partner Treehugger is right near the top, along with Do-Gooder must-read Grist. Props too to the not-so-guilty pleasure of celebrity green-gossip hound Ecorazzi.
New York Times Magazine: Last Sunday's issue is packed with green goodies. My favorite is Michael Pollan's essay, "Why Bother?" After dealing with all the excuses people (and pundits) make for why individual action isn't enough to tackle the climate crisis, Pollan argues against what he calls the "cheap energy mind" that convinces us that our problems can only be solved by experts. As a small step toward helping the planet and a giant step toward making ourselves more independent, he calls for planting a garden. Benefits: great food, near zero cost, lots of exercise, and real solar energy (you know, cuz the sun makes plants grow). Also fun: the web-only word game with hints on how you can act, eat, invent, learn, live, move, and build.
Time Magazine: Apparently there's been some "controversy" about Time's adaptation of the famous Iwo Jima flag-raising as a tree-planting. But if you believe that the climate battle will be as decisive for our generation as WWII was for our grandfathers, then the image is actually an homage. Our fave feature of Time's enviro issue is the list of top 15 green websites. MOLI content partner Treehugger is right near the top, along with Do-Gooder must-read Grist. Props too to the not-so-guilty pleasure of celebrity green-gossip hound Ecorazzi.
What People Are Saying…
Leave a Comment
15:04 EDT, 23.Apr.08