Pete Smith @ April 21, 2008 # One Comment
Photo: zappers Plastic’s been getting a pretty bad press for quite a while now. Bloggers like my erstwhile colleague Matt over at The Coffee House (‘The Dead Zone – plastic fcuktastic‘) have been covering the problem comprehensively, and quite right too. There can’t be too many people left who aren’t at least aware that plastic [...]
Pete Smith @ January 28, 2008 # One Comment
Susan Robb is an artist living and working in Seattle. Her website manifesto says: “Susan Robb’s sculptures and built environments transform common objects into ideological hybrids of flesh, nature, and technology. Drawing on empirical observation, reflection, and imagination about her immediate surroundings and contemporary social issues, these hybridizations are open-ended investigations into the kaleidoscopic intersection [...]
Pete Smith @ January 17, 2008 # One Comment
A court in Paris has found oil giant Total responsible for the sinking of the tanker Erika. The world’s fourth-largest oil company must pay a fine of €375,000 for negligence, plus €200 million in damages. The incident, in December 1999, caused a 20,000 tonne slick of heavy oil which polluted 250 miles of the French [...]
Pete Smith @ June 21, 2007 # 30 Comments
A research team from the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre has analyzed 5,000 years worth of mud from the bottom of fjords in Western Canada. Variations in concentration of fossilized fish scales and diatoms in the mud layers show strong and consistent patterns of marine productivity that correspond to cycles of solar output. In line with many [...]
