Articles by Chris Schults

And the Emmy for best environmental news pod goes to …

If you haven't been sold on the whole "create your own video short" thing I keep going on and on about, the stakes have just been raised. Now, you could win an Emmy. Seriously:

The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, best known for handing out the Daytime Emmy Awards, is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has created an award category to recognize original video content for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, like the video iPod and PlayStation Portable.

(Via PSFK)

Courtesy of the Sierra Club

Even though you have haven't visited, you probably know where the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is located. You may be proud of the fact that you can point to area 1002 on the map and trace the migration of the Porcupine caribou herd. But what about your friends, neighbors, and inlaws?

There is still hope for them. You can direct them to the Sierra Club's thoughtfully prepared collection of maps of the Arctic Refuge using Google Earth. They're offering six maps in total:

1. The whole thing
2. Refuge boundaries
3. The "1002" area
4. Native American villages
5. Drilling across Alaska
6. The Porcupine Herd and other wildlife

(Via Boing Boing)

And in other Google Earth news: Fans of the game Risk can play by way of Google maps.

Who killed the electric car?

Currently in production is EV Confidential, a documentary "about electric cars, hybrids, hydrogen, and the future of transportation."

Word has it that Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has picked up the North-American/English speaking rights and will release EV Confidential in 2006.

Watch the trailer here.

Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story

With the depressing news about the Arctic Refuge, I wanted to point to the inspirational story of Mardy Murie, mother of the American conservation movement, who played a central role in establishing the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Act in 1960 and the Alaska Lands Act in 1980.

Arctic Dance: The Mardy Murie Story is "a collaborative effort by a group of passionate filmmakers, writers, musicians, and biologists to produce the definitive film biography of this exceptional woman. Directed by Bonnie Kreps and written by Charlie Craighead, the documentary is both an intimate portrait of a well-loved national figure and a poignant historical document."

You can learn more and watch a preview at the documentary's website.

(Via Greener Magazine)