(Untitled)- August 30, 2002 Life in Pandemonium: On general release in October, Naqoyqatsi ('Civilised Violence'), the last in Godfrey Reggio's trilogy of non-narrative films about our world falling out of step with nature, describes the expansion of technology, the new digital spaces surrounding us. QTime trailer; Koyaanisqatsi.http://www.scribble.clara.net/categories/ecology/2002/08/30.html#a742 (Untitled)- August 19, 2002 Speed trap: Even the Home Office thinks it's wrong for scientists to force mice to take amphetamines and listen to the Prodigy. Daily Telegraph.http://www.scribble.clara.net/categories/ecology/2002/08/19.html#a731 (Untitled)- August 7, 2002 From our own correspondents: Alt(ish) media is charging up batteries for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Daily Summit, a weblog set up with help from the British Council, hopes to post news and gossip as it happens from the streets and conference centres of Johannesburg. Also worth bookmarking for the Summit's untold stories is South Africa Indymedia. One way or another, pace Gil Scott-Heron, the conference will be blogged.http://www.scribble.clara.net/categories/ecology/2002/08/07.html#a713 (Untitled)- August 5, 2002 Killing an idea: While worthies and woollies, cynics and charlatans prepare for Johannesburg and the World Summit on Sustainable Development at the end of the month, Jeremy Seabrook, with all the despair of Cassandra on a bad day, says that we can't have it all, that growth can't be reconciled with conservation. The idea of sustainable development has become part of the 'treacherous lexicon of developmentalism - empowerment, participation, poverty-abatement, inclusiveness,...http://www.scribble.clara.net/categories/ecology/2002/08/05.html#a711 |