Green TV
If anyone’s feeling the pressure out there and in need of a new and interesting procrastination aid, check out some of the plethora of video blogs with an environmental flavour out there. While YouTube and its ilk is clearly both a curse and a blessing, porn and snot videos need not dominate.
A couple of enviro-themed productions include Freshtopia and GroovyGreen
There’s far more sobering viewing, such as alternet video - not strictly a video blog more of a clearinghouse of other content - and a broad array of programming on sites such as current TV (Al Gore’s on board, literally). And there’s still a plethora of porn and/or gross bodily functions viewing available…
There’s bound to be an element of green-washing inherent in a lot of this, and all the pretty shiny pictures (and accompanying advertising) made this frog a little nervous, but the concept is certainly interesting, often well edited and presented, and accessible.
October 27th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Dear frog! So solicitous of our needs for constantly refreshed procrastination tools!
Does this set of site recommendations come with a PG rating?
Suddenly, I feeling overwhelmed with releif that my teenage children think this is a very boring blog, and thus don’t ever view it!
Can’t wait to hear what Phil Ure comes up with in the way of comments
October 28th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
Vid is a great medium for sure. This isn’t a vid blog, but a neat vid about local action.
Also Frog, you’ve been (a part) motivator for a new regular on my blog: “Saturday Sensitivity”. This is shameless promotion of part one.
Cheers
M
October 29th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
Having had time to look properly, have to say the Freshtopia site was pretty damn good!
Roll on summer, now I have the (raw) tomato soup recipe to go with the good weather (and please, after this weekend, surely there’s some sunshine due somewhere???)
Mikeymike, not too shabby either!
cheers, katie