Tag Archive: environment

Jun 10 2013

The return of W

Just when you thought it was safe to plan for Father’s Day, Cej disappoints dads everywhere with the return of the shocking and all too true (if parodied) comic about America’s greatest president. 

Nov 06 2012

VOTE!

You mean you haven’t yet?!

Mar 06 2012

Burning Question

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Click to enlarge. The phenomenon of climate change is well established within the scientific community. Unfortunately, the science is not what you see in the popular media. At one extreme, you have people denying that climate change is real. At the other extreme, you have movies like The Day After Tomorrow showing widespread planetary destruction. …

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Aug 28 2011

Cej and Mark! still trapped by nature.

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Will our heroes survive?! (Yes, they will.)

Aug 27 2011

Escape from New York (not the movie)

Cej and Mark! are trapped in NYC! First an earthquake and now a hurricane. If they don’t make a comic out of this….

Apr 22 2011

Celebrate Earth Day

Click to enlarge. Celebrate Earth Day the old fashion way: do nothing. Global climate change is here. It’s not about preventing it anymore. We’ve pumped so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere that even if we were to stop burning all fossil fuels today (which we won’t), we’d still be looking at …

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Feb 08 2011

Cold Snap

Click to enlarge. It’s cold in the winter. Some people think that cold weather disproves global warming. That’s because they don’t understand the difference between weather and climate. Weather measures the local environmental conditions, typically on the scale of hours or days. Climate measures the average environmental conditions over larger scales of time, typically on …

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Oct 07 2010

Monkey vs. Robot – James Kochalka

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Here is a short, simply drawn, almost wordless tale of robots and some sort of manufacturing plant invading simian land; yet such simplicity provides a powerful statement to young and old about the clash of industry and environment. Impressive.

Aug 20 2010

Your Handy Dandy Guide to Composting

Click to enlarge. This is a little guide that I created to assist my friend Erin with her new composter. I’m fascinated by decay and rebirth. And dirt is where it happens. I’ve been composting for years—taking overripe fruit and unused ruffage and turning them into good healthy soil. (Although, strictly speaking, it’s the micro-organisms …

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Jul 28 2010

Overpopulation

Click to enlarge. I worry about lots of stuff; and the idea that we are now at 6.7 BILLION people on the planet kinda terrifies me. Of course, when I mention this to people, I get funny looks (at best). Although we Americans live in the “developed world,” overpopulation does affect us. It can be …

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Jun 23 2010

Slick

Click to enlarge. I guess I’m not real worried about the cost of the clean up to BP. At $40 million a day in profit, they can afford to employ many of the out-of-work people. Just using Tony Hayward’s salary ($4.7 m/yr), BP could hire a couple hundred people for a year. Obviously, money alone …

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Jun 22 2010

Coincidence?

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Take a look at the June 21st episode of The Daily Show and tell me if, during the talk about BP, you come across anything that looks shockingly like this cartoon of mine from, like, two years ago. Jon, you owe me!

Mar 24 2010

Wall-E

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Cory brought over this awesome, computer animated movie about the last working waste disposal robot left on Earth (not coincidentally one of the last working anything on the planet) who goes on an adventure to find love, friendship, and maybe save humanity itself!

Feb 10 2010

What happened to snow days?!

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Everything in this city is shut down EXCEPT my job. Thanks John Jay College.

Dec 05 2009

Cold Snap

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Click to enlarge. It snowed today in Houston, an admittedly rare event in this part of the world. In addition to icy water, such an episode releases a flurry of right wingers and people who got no better than Cs in science telling me how “this proves Al Gore wrong.” Setting aside the misdirected animosity, …

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Aug 06 2008

Living Like Ed

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Begley, Jr., Ed. Living Like Ed: A Guide to the Eco-Friendly Life. New York: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2008. Like many forward-thinkers, Ed Begley Jr. is often lampooned over his concern for the environment. And the title and the cover of this book certainly plays into that image. But nothing about its contents is ego-centric. In fact, …

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Apr 30 2008

Action News: Earth Day

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Click to enlarge. I suppose this cartoon may seem a bit late, but really…isn’t it already too late? Other Action News fun here and here.

Oct 30 2003

Climate Change

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Sep 30 2002

Action News: The Comet

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