Writer, Creative Director, Musician, & Illustrator
San Francisco, California
environment category
Foolish marketers create their own “BalloonGate” in San Francisco
March 3, 2011 @ 10:44 am
“A publicity stunt for a new warfare-based video game sent local environmentalists to arms when a mass of balloons carrying advertisements for the game cascaded into San Francisco Bay.”
You don’t have to be an environmentalist to read about this in today’s SF Chron and, well, see red. Marketers concocting these misguided “viral” stunts are out of touch. It’s not just eco-warriors that see a balloon release as so much trash-generation and littering—it’s the majority of Americans who are living in a day and age of an unprecedented assault on their environment, food, air and water.
Just say NO to offshore drilling
April 30, 2010 @ 5:55 pm
[If you want to bypass my short rant and get right to petitions and articles, scroll down to get right to the links at the end of this article]
Only a few days after getting upset about Obama’s reversed stance to allow offshore drilling on the East Coast, I read the headlines about what will likely become the biggest and most disastrous oil spill ever.
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