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GAS PRICES AND OIL SUPPLY —
ALL OF US OVER A BARREL
A tankerful of cartoons about oil supply and gas prices.
FORMAT: GIF/Panels
Get 'em here, from CartoonStock.com.
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VENUS OR HOLLYWOOD?
ON THE RED CARPET TONIGHT....
A funny animation lambasting the vacuousness of the stereotypical Hollywood starlet—and the world's addiction to her image.
FORMAT: Embedded video
Get it here, from Tocci Online.
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| FUNNY STUFF ABOUT ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT & DEMOCRACY |
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AL GORE: WOULD-BE PRESIDENT
A funny clip of Al Gore satirizing just about everything, including himself.
FORMAT: Video (RealMedia, WindowsMedia, or Flash)
Get it here, from Saturday Night Live via CrooksAndLiars.com.
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PIZZA SURVEILLANCE CAMPAIGN
Want to see where we're heading with surveillance programs, data mining, and personal-information integration? Watch this clever, half-funny, half-scary video.
FORMAT: Embedded Video
Get it here from the ACLU.
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PEAK-OIL COMIC
Peak Oil is no joke ... but comedian Rob Newman has still figured out how to get a few laughs out of it while delivering the message. Listen to an interview with Rob (clip 1) and hear some of his "Peak Oil standup routine" (clip 2) on Global Public Media ...
FORMAT: Audio (MP3 Download or RealMedia stream)
Get it at Global Public Media.
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PERSONAL RAPID TRANSIT (PRT)
It's not quite a transportation system from the age of "The Jetsons," but Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) is pretty cool and futurey! This animation shows how the system works.
FORMAT: Video (RealMedia, WindowsMedia, or Flash)
Get it from bettercampus.org or via Google Video.
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LOST MOUNTAIN
Get the devastating story of a year in the life of a mountain, destroyed by mountaintop removal strip mining—a process that likely brings the coal to a power plant near you. From Living On Earth.
FORMAT: Audio (MP3 or RealMedia stream)
Right-click here to download an MP3 from Grinning Planet's site or visit LOE to read or download the story.
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THE MYTH OF THE OIL SANDS
Canada's oil sands—a.k.a. the "Canadian Tar Sands"—have been described as the "Saudi Arabia of heavy oil," with the implication that they will save us from future oil shortages. Find out why that is a false promise in the new report "A Crash Program Scenario for the Canadian Oil Sands Industry."
FORMAT: Text/HTML
Read summary at EnergyBulletin.com.
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| GRINNING PLANET ALBUM REVIEWS |
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DYNISS – THE GREEN ANTHEM
Dyniss' music is sometimes political, often dreamy, occasionally weird, but always excellent. It's Modern Rock/Indie Pop that throws in the occasional quirk to make sure we're paying attention...
Get full GP review: Dyniss - The Green Anthem
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THE ROLLING STONES – FORTY LICKS
With such a huge slew of great songs to choose from, it's a given that, within a 40-track limit, the song-pickers were never going to be able to cover ever single good song the Rolling Stones ever did. Still, you will not find a better overview of the Rolling Stones 40-year body of work than Forty Licks....
Get full GP review: The Rolling - Stones Forty Licks
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R.E.M. – AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE
REM's 1992 album Automatic for the People was the perfect nexus of the band's ever-more-confident songwriting and increasing mastery of instrumentation, with an overall inventiveness that resulted in song after song of excellent music....
Get full GP review: R.E.M. - Automatic For The People
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