Transition Voice

The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement

  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
You are here: Home / Archives for television

Lemminged: to be herded off the peak oil cliff by filmmakers

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | November 11, 2014

photo of couple on bench TV screen style

"Fish don't know they're living in water, nor do they stop to wonder where the water came from. Humans? Not much better, as we share a world engulfed by television. And the deeper our immersion becomes, the less likely it seems we'll poke our heads above the surface and see there must have been life before someone invented TV." Those are the opening words of a recent … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: Eadweard Muybridge, Philo Farnsworth, television, Wes Jackson

Ackerman and McPherson Dialogue: The idiot box

By Staff Reports | February 20, 2013

Couch potato

The following is the fifth in an ongoing dialogue (cyber-discussion) between two cultural philosophers and regular Transition Voice contributors, Dr. Sherry Ackerman and Dr. Guy McPherson. ACKERMAN: We've been having a really intense winter up here in Mount Shasta, Guy. With five feet of snow currently on the ground, it's been a challenge for us to not get cabin fever. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Ackerman and McPherson dialogs, communications, Guy McPherson, media, television

Most Popular Stories

  • Trump is our Worst Kleptocrat, but He Won't Be our Last
  • American kids in the Age of Oil: 'Economically worthless but emotionally priceless'
  • Post-carbon (and post-uranium) Japan
  • A “Gospel of Wealth” for the 21st century
  • A jingo-free July 4th
  • Clothesline art, laundry activism, cash savings
  • Earth shelters: Building an eco-friendly bunker
  • Solar power: the teddy bear of energy sources
  • Earth, and other legends
  • The meditation of the red pill
  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact

© 2021 Transition Voice · Web design by Curren Media Group · Log in