Crash Parallel Encourage the Support of Earth Day 2008

88697234322_9_212142.jpg“Let earth day 2008 be the start of infinite changes and responsible choices. Helping the world in recovery is something we all have in common and can all participate and take pride in.  Fight for your home everyday.” – Tim Edwards from Crash Parallel.

In support of their debut album, available May 6, 2008, Toronto-based quartet Crash Parallel are tackling important issues with the title track and first single “World We Know”. The song is a powerful call to arms that challenges our generation to take action and protect our world, with a chorus that asks us “what are we waiting for?”

Directed by Danny Appleby (Kalan Porter, Jason Collett), the video reflects these same themes with powerful imagery and emotion to match. 

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Vanity Fair’s 3rd Annual Green Issue

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Features

MADONNARAMA!
Madonna
has struck pose after provocative pose since her 1982 debut. Is her
latest incarnation, as activist and filmmaker, bringing her closer to
the truth? Rich Cohen undergoes a multi-media bombardment–her new
album, her directorial debut, and her documentary on the orphans of
Malawi, where she adopted her third child–to prepare for a session with
the icon herself. Photographs by Steven Meisel. Web special: A slideshow of the many modes of Madonna from the pages of Vanity Fair, beginning in 1986.


THE GREEN LIGHT
The
White House claims that subjecting detainees to coercive interrogations
was an idea that came from the bottom up, from commanders on the
ground. In fact, it came from the top down, pushed hard by the
administration’s most powerful lawyers. Talking to key players,
Philippe Sands pieces together who approved what, and why they could
face war-crimes prosecution.

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News Release: GeoTourism and the “Crown of the Continent”

…. “A stretch of the Rocky Mountains runs virtually unbroken for 250 miles from central Montana into southern Canada with a skyline that exalts all the land within eyeshot. Many call this the Crown of the Continent.”

Douglas H. Chadwick, in the Sept. 2007 issue of National Geographic Magazine.

The Waterton National Park Chamber of Commerce announces the unveiling of National Geographic’s newest cross-border GeoTourism initiative.

Waterton, Alberta. April 9th, 2008.

Roof of the world. Crown of the Continent. World Heritage Site(s).
‘Unique cross-boundary celebration of preservation.’

What’s the big, hairy, deal?

National Geographic, in partnership with a diverse range oforganizations in B.C., Alberta, and Montana, have created an amazingMapGuide and web resource covering the “Crown of the Continent.”

Centered on Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, and featuringthe Rocky Mountain and foothill areas of two provinces and one state, this initiative is all about promoting Geotourism in a unique andspecial place.

This is the biggest environmental thing to happen in SouthwestAlberta since the dinosaurs died! And we’re going to tell you about itjust in time for Earth Day! Join us for the media launch on April 17th .

THIS is the Crown of the Continent.

And it’s finally ‘on the map.’
All thanks to National Geographic’s Center for Sustainable Destinations.
And about a thousand other people.

Now it’s your turn…

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Flintstone-mobile

Montreal artist Michel de Broin made the “Shared Propulsion Car” by hollowing-out the insides. Link to artist web site project.

It has:

  • no engine
  • no transmission
  • no floor
  • no signal lights
  • in place of headlights? The car features tea light-candle headlights
  • the whole thing is entirely propelled by pedal power

Pedal powered ‘Flintstone car’ driver gets his traffic ticket dismissed

Video of the pedal-powered 1986 Buick Regal’s maiden voyage

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