Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Solving news matters on their own

A group of citizens of Carbondale, Col. decided to run their own newspaper when Swift Communications stopped printing the weekly Valley Journal, as reported by the Rural Blog and the L. A. Times.
Rebecca Young and 6 other residents founded, then, the Sopris Sun to attend the town's need for news.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Global Warming in 15 minutes

The National Geographic series "Six Degrees Could Change the World" (2008) explains what happens if we add one to six degrees Celsius to the Earth's average in 7 short chapters (about 15 minutes total).
The series is based on Mark Lynas's book with the same name, which provides specific scenarios of how life on Earth would be affected by global warming.

Another version was produced for the Green.tv web site:
"Six Degrees Could Change the World" (2008)
Green.TV
Author: Mark Lynas and Steven Holland
Copyright: Mark Lynas and Steven Holland