Political Media Review » Environmentalism

Green is the New Red

politicalmediareview — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:10:55 +0000

Scare tactics are very effective in a culture of fear. And if the United States government has been successful in one aspect of the culture, it’s creating a climate of fear.

Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture

politicalmediareview — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 05:57:17 +0000

Truths Among Us: Conversations on Building a New Culture is an important collection of in-depth interviews that prolific author Derrick Jensen conducted with a handful of radical thinkers you should become more familiar with if you’re not already.

Operation Bite Back: Rod Coronado’s War to Save American Wilderness

politicalmediareview — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:42:22 +0000

In the early 1990s, animal rights activist Rodney Coronado organized and carried out a series of Animal Liberation Front attacks against the fur industry in a campaign called Operation Bite Back

Lives Less Valuable

politicalmediareview — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:40:30 +0000

Using art as a medium, or platform, for ideological proselytizing has always been a difficult process for the artist. Will the political content outweigh and compromise the aesthetics, or will the artist’s style dilute and deflate the message? Derrick Jensen walks a fine line in his fiction; as a radical political thinker and primitivist evangelist, he is peerless.

Another Dinner is Possible

politicalmediareview — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:57:53 +0000

Another Dinner is Possible is not a boutique cookbook. It doesn't offer elaborate dishes that will impress dinner party guests, nor will it help convert your omni friends and family to a vegan diet.

Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

politicalmediareview — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:17:10 +0000

It’s no secret that Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have designed their environmental policy to fit a full-speed-ahead exploitation of Alberta’s tar sands. It’s important, therefore, to have an understanding of the industry’s environmental impact.

Generation A and The Year of the Flood

politicalmediareview — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:01:48 +0000

Information is important, but stories are essential. While scientists can tell us about the extinction of species and the loss of Arctic sea ice, we need stories to help us make sense of these events.