Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
US cycling from a Dutch perspective
Originally posted on BICYCLE DUTCH:
While a delegation from Portland Oregon was visiting my hometown ’s-Hertogenbosch and some other places in the Netherlands to experience Dutch cycling, I was looking at cycling in the United States. Not that that was the main goal of my journey -I was in the US for a self-paid holiday…
Chris Agnos of Sustainable Human, Sari Caine Glickstein and David Rigo of the Slightly Altered States Theater
We ended the semester at Sex and Politics with discussions about German politics, the NY arts scene, and new ideas about sustainability in the face of Climate Change and global warming. First up, Sex and Politics Alumnus Zack Murphy spoke to Aaron Schwayze, a graduate student from Berlin majoring in enviromental engineering. They discussed German reaction […]
Appeal filed for Transform Now Plowshares seeks reversal of convictions
Originally posted on Transform Now Plowshares:
Two years after Megan Rice, Greg Boertje-Obed and Michael Walli entered the Y12 Nuclear Weapons Complex in Oak Ridge, TN to issue an indictment against the continuing production of nuclear weapons components there and to oppose plans for a multi-billion dollar Uranium Processing Facility which would produce thermonuclear cores…
Sex And Politics: David M Harris, Heather Height; Marlo Lewis on Climate Change
July 8. 2014 was a great night to tune into Sex And Politics! Executive Producer Phil Rosenberg started the evening with a candid conversation about pornography with David M Harris and Heather Height, who let us know their side of the business. David and Heather are both involved in the adult film world as well […]
Sex and Politics–the People’s Climate March
On June 27 on Sex and Politics, I interviewed Rachel Schragis, an artist and activist. She is an Arts Coordinator for the People’s Climate March, scheduled for this coming September. The United Nations has called a special summit to address climate change/climate disruption. The summit will bring world leaders together to hammer out some […]
Richard Forer on Sex and Politics!
This is an update. On Friday July 26, Phil Rosenberg interviewed and debated Richard Forer on the Israeli operations in Gaza. Mr. Forer is the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear Into Compassion – A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. He is a former member of AIPAC who was transformed by the experience of seeing the truth about Israel’s long history […]
Dear LabCorp
a pertinent article from a friend regarding a huge lab bill not covered by her insurance. It’s important to note that the bill she’s getting is arguably many times what an insurer would get for the services. There is no transparency in healthcare pricing, which is why it’s a mess.
More on Arctic methane–are we really f**ked?
Wow, this is a headline I didn’t want to read. “If we release a small portion of Arctic carbon, ‘We’re fucked’: Climatologist Yup. That’s (more or less) what Dr. Jason Box, a widely published glaciologist, tweeted. He had been following the developments from an expedition into the Arctic in search of data on methane releases. Scientists […]
The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction: Methane, Propaganda & the Architects of Genocide | Part I
Originally posted on From the NonProfit Industrial Complex with Love:
An investigative report. [Part 1: http://bit.ly/fV8slf | Part II: http://bit.ly/gMITca | Part III: http://bit.ly/gMrxw9 | Part IV: http://bit.ly/g9xbFN%5D By Cory Morningstar Part I World Marches to Methane Annihilation “[T]he question is not will this methane be released, but when.” – Robert C. Hendricks, NASA, November 2007…
They DON’T plan to tell us
For those of you joining late, several weeks ago, authorities in Russia were taken aback to find that a giant hole had appeared in a field in Siberia. Latest news from the climate front–TWO MORE LARGE HOLES have appeared in the Siberian tundra. One has been around since last September–noticed by the locals, but not reported. […]
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