May 14, 2012

Wedges in Vogue

Apparently this season, wedges are in – I’m talking about climate wedges, not the shoes! Scientists are mobilizing people into Green Action with a wedge plan known as a “stabilization triangle.” What’s super clear about this is the time limit for stabilizing the climate: The goals of the stabilization triangle must be achieved over the next ten years, which isn’t much time!

Princeton’s Environmental Institute has more info:

http://cmi.princeton.edu/wedges/intro.php

And MSNBC host Chris Hayes does a good job explaining the plan with some images that help to clarify both the problem and the solution:

The Next Forever

This is an original music video from the song “The Next Forever” in The Great Immensity. The footage was taken on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal by videographer David Ford. He was there with Steve Cosson (the play’s playwright and director) and Michael Friedman (the composer and lyricist) while they were conducting research and interviews for the play. This footage provides an incredible look both at the experiences that shaped the play and at the gorgeous tropical environment and wildlife of Barro Colorado Island.

Music & Lyrics by Michael Friedman
Performed by Trey Lyford
Directed & Produced by Alix Lambert
Film Footage by David A. Ford
Edited by Brian Young

To view other music videos for songs from The Great Immensity visit our Video Gallery HERE!

If you could ask a climate scientist one question, what would it be?

Here’s our last question for our run of The Great Immensity at Kansas City Repertory Theatre! We have gotten to ask climate scientists a lot of different questions over the last few years. We want to know what YOU would ask a climate scientist if you got in the room with one.

And just in case your question is, Who’s a climate scientist, here’s an answer for you in the form of a hilarious music video.

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March 13, 2012

How far into the future do you imagine?

When you think about the future, what is the furthest into the future that you envision? – the next 50 years? – the next 100 years? – the next forever? What does it look like? What natural resources do we still have available to us? Let us know in the comments!

Need some inspiration? Well we also asked participants in our Skype Video Interview Series this same question, so check out their answers in videos HERE! And for an interesting project specifically focused on our perception of time, check out The Long Now Foundation‘s 10,000 year clock, which is engineered to keep time for the next 10,000 years…

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March 6, 2012

What do you wish that you or your community could do to respond to the environmental crisis?

We asked a similar question at the start of the run of The Great Immensity about what you or your community have already done to respond to the environmental crisis. (We got some great responses – check them out HERE!) Now, we want to know what you wish would happen. What would you like to hear your local politicians address? If you got the people on your block or in your apartment building together, are there environmental issues you’d like to address? Let’s get some ideas going, and maybe we’ll find that we can start working on some of them!

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