Four Videos to Watch This Week

Published October 28, 2008 @ 11:24AM PT

Looking for a little diversion while you contemplate the vanishing ice floes? Here are a few videos I've recently found that offer amusement, food for thought, or some combination of the two.

1. L'Afrique dans la campagne 350.org

Ely Katembo, a young Congolese man, explains why he's decided to work to stop global warming. I like this brief video because it disrupts the abstraction that is "Africa" for many of us (to judge from the average day's news, it's a big dry place where stateless people are wholly occupied with fighting, dying, or starving).

2. Van Jones on the Green Collar Economy

Van Jones' new book The Green Collar economy is reportedly selling like hotcakes. While there are a number of great videos circulating right now that feature Mr. Jones and his encouraging views on how green jobs can revivify the economy, I am fond of this, his mano-a-mano earlier in the year with Stephen Colbert:

3. Kosmopolis Interview: Bruce Sterling

Writer, futurist, critic, and Emperor-Pope of the ultra-green Viridian Design movement Bruce Sterling answers a few easy questions, such as, 'Is print dead?' 'Should newspapers adapt or die?' and 'Can writers change the world?' Related news:

'Christian Science Monitor' To Cease Daily Publication, Focus on Digital (MediaPost)
Long, sad list of departures from the Los Angeles Times newsroom (LA Observed) [[Former LA Times ace investigative enviro reporter Marla Cone split for online-only Environmental Health News earlier in the month]]

4. Better Late Than Never

Featuring 100% recycled audiovisual materials! Using found footage from nature and science shows gone by, this entry in Treehugger's Convenient Truths video contest shows off how much we've known for decades about pollution, global warming.

Click through to watch, as the video appears to be locked to Treehugger's web site.

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