I thought this was a pretty neat animated movie. Thought I’d share.

This really isn’t about polar bears any more….............

It turns out that the way we have been calculating the future impacts of climate change up to now has been missing a really important piece of the picture. It seems we are now dangerously close to the tipping point in the world’s climate system; this is the point of no return, after which truly catastrophic changes become inevitable.

Wake Up, Freak Out - then Get a Grip is a short, animated film about climate change by Leo Murray.

Wake Up ~ Freak Out ~ Get a Grip

  * A toymaker, for example, who makes wooden cars in his garage in Maine to supplement his income cannot afford the $4,000 fee per toy that testing labs are charging to assure compliance with the CPSIA.

  * A work at home mom in Minnesota who makes cloth diapers to sell online must choose either to violate the law or cease operations.
 
* A small toy retailer in Vermont who imports wooden toys from Europe, which has long had stringent toy safety standards, must now pay for testing on every toy they import.
 
* And even the handful of larger toy makers who still employ workers in the United States face increased costs to comply with the CPSIA, even though American-made toys had nothing to do with the toy safety problems of 2007.

you can read the full law here

Here are some more links about it….

National bankruptcy day

You have to be kidding me, right? Seriously!

In Texas, graffiti with a Sharpie on a school wall is a more serious crime than carrying a switchblade, making a terroristic threat, burglarizing a vehicle, committing a second DWI, stalking, or assault causing bodily harm.

Here’s something worse than Utah.
I hope.
You never know. Utah does have its own issues.

My intention is to do a book based on Sam losing his balloon and chasing it all over the place. This would be one of the scenes. The reality is, it will probably never get done. The scene I did for the city got sold. Sam in the big city. I’ll maybe redo that one next. We’ll see what happens. You never know. It may actually come to be.

Flying by the farm

mixed media on panel
24 x 16