Arts and Culture

Arts and Culture is all about environmental arts and culture, including green fine arts, music, film and fashion.

The Film ‘Consumed’ Explores the Psychology Behind Environmental Destruction
Monday, 19 September 2011  |  Rick Theis | Review

Shoppers Cartoon photo courtesy of Lindsay TaylorThere are some refreshing things about the new ecology documentary, Consumed. For one, it avoids hyperbole and deals primarily with just the facts. For another, it doesn’t single out corporations as the sole cause of environmental destruction. Instead, it places the blame squarely on the shoulders of the consumer—you and me. Obviously, if we didn’t demand more and more products, companies wouldn’t make them. Although it blames us as individuals, it does not demonize us. Its thesis is that we are only doing what comes naturally to us and that, as a species, we will grow out of it. Read on...

 
‘Cool It’ Film Review: The Devil Is in the Details
Monday, 08 August 2011  |  Rick Theis | Review

Lomborg from 'Cool It' Book Cover photo by Rick TheisCool It is a film about Bjørn Lomborg and his proposition that limiting the amount of carbon being released into the atmosphere is not the best way to reduce the threat of global warming. He prefers instead that we rely on geo-engineering. That is, he touts man-made, technological solutions—akin to those that have caused this crisis in the first place. The film is based on his error-riddled book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, which has made him the scourge of environmentalists everywhere. Read on...

 
The Film ‘Farmageddon’ Says It’s 1984 for Small Farmers
Wednesday, 13 July 2011  |  Rick Theis | Review

Small Farm in Winter photo by pixelnaiadThe documentary film Farmageddon explores the fine line between consumer protection and government intrusion when it comes to food safety. Certainly we all want wholesome food, but what happens when rules written with agribusiness in mind are inflexibly applied to family farms by overzealous regulators? It often means the latter are harassed to the point of being driven out of business, less choice for consumers and ultimately less healthy food. Read on...

 
The Film ‘Ingredients’ Is a Peek at a Better Food Future
Tuesday, 24 May 2011  |  Rick Theis | Review

'Ingredients' Film Poster (detail) photo courtesy of the FilmmakersMajor changes are coming to the way we eat. And I don’t mean the dystopia of irradiated, cloned and genetically engineered food-like substances. Yes, that's where agribusiness super-capitalists want to take us. But the intersecting facts of increasing food-borne disease and decreasing oil supply will mean just the opposite, according to Ingredients, a gently powerful film. Read on...

 
‘Humoring the Horror’: A Book Review
Monday, 16 May 2011  |  Marita Prandoni | Commentary

‘Humoring the Horror’ Book Cover (detail) photo coutesy of the ApocadocsIf you need a crash course on why our civilization is in deep do-do, the ApocaDocs are here to help. They are the authors of Humoring the Horror of the Converging Emergencies, a quick-read, no-nonsense but whacky guide to the key dilemmas ailing our planet and how the Homo genus hasn’t fully lived up to the distinction of sapiens (Latin for “wise”). The ApocaDocs (first say “apocalypse” and you’ll get the hang of this moniker) are Jim and Michael. Their surnames remain a mystery, and since it’s a self-published book, last names are not required. Read on...

 
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