EarthFirst Blog Week in Review April 7-11

It’s okay to stare. We love the attention. And we KNOW you noticed our sexy new look. Now wipe up that drool pool on your desk and read us for our articles. We have some great stuff for you this week like a hockeyplaying bear, a video visit to that huge mass of plastic trash out in the pacific we’ve been talking so much about, and defrosting disease-ridden dead people! So, if for any odd reason you’ve been able to take your eyes off us at any time during the past few days, take a peek at our stuff again just for fun.

• Confessions of A Greenwasher: Like an AA Meeting, but with More Guilt
• Gather ‘Round the Festivus Pole, George Costanza’s Getting on the Green Team!
• Bored Japanese Guy + Recycled Chopsticks = Awesome Green Canoe
• Disease Infected Corpses Popping Up Through the Tundra, Courtesy of Global Warming
• Seattle Moves to Tear Down the Squirrelman’s Beautiful Waterfront Treehouse
• Common Sense Breaks Out: Car Buyers Dump Their SUVs for the Smallest Cars
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• Calculate your Carbon Footprint the Easy Way
• Watch Al Gore’s Awesomely Updated Slideshow from TED: The Urgency of Manbearpig
• Because You Can Train Bears to Do Just About Anything: The Hockey Edition
• Brilliant! Drought-Stricken Florida Gives Nestle Unlimited Water for $230
• It’s Mind Blowing Time: VBS.TV Visits the Garbage Filled Pacific Ocean Gyre
• Home Refrigeration 2.0- The Oceania Refrigerator Brings The Sexy Green Noise
• Axis of Corporate Evil: Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, and the NRA Hired Black Ops Private Security Team to Spy on Green Activists

Watch Al Gore’s Awesomely Updated Slideshow from TED: The Urgency of Manbearpig

Al Gore is my hero. Check out the new slideshow he gave at TED about the solutions needed to win the fight against Manbearpig Global Warming.

HT [Ecogeek]

Al Gore Calls out Major Media at TED: Ask More Green Questions to Presidential Candidates

Al Gore gave a well received speech to the Technology, Entertainment & Design (TED) conference on Saturday. He continued his push for global solutions for global problems, but one particular item caught my eye.

• Of the thousands of questions the major networks (figures given for NBC, ABC, CBX, FOX & CNN) asked the U.S. Presidential candidates, only 6 questions concerned global warming. What does this say about the priorities of political reporting in this political year? Maybe Al should be asking questions of the candidates.

Saving the environment and positioning our country to face the realities of climate change is one of America’s most pressing issues, this side of the War in Iraq. We need to hear more from our politicians about their plans to get us there. Keep on rocking Al Gore.

Link [Wired.com]