#envrionment

‘but [insert organism here] does nothing for the environment!’

to just

for a second. then follow these instructions:

(1) open up a web browser.

(2) type in ‘does [insert organism here] do anything for the environment?’

(3) learn something.

Vainionora americana 

American speck lichen

I heard the U.S. had a pretty big celebration this past weekend. And while I am not a fan of the U.S. as a political entity, I am a big fan of the nature and critters found there in the states, even down to the littlest specks. And by that, I am referring to V. americana, which is native to the eastern US. where it grows in the Blue Ridge mountains down to Alabama. It has a gray-green, rounded, crustose thallus that is areolate to wart-like in texture, often obscured by copious amounts of granular, yellow-green soredia from hemispherical soralia. It produces lecanorine apothecia with pale-pink to brown discs with thick, granular rims. Other members of the Vainionora genus can be found in central and South America, preferring warm, tropical habitats, making V. americana the northernmost species in the group. Just one small part of the diversity that truly makes America (and by that I mean all the Americas) wonderful. Diversity is always worth celebrating and protecting!

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All Summer in a day, Ray Bradbury adaptation stuff! Bunker Tunnel

God, concept design is hard. It was hurting my brain, trying to mash the style of Limbo into fitting an environment that was 1) indoors and underground, and 2) SUPPOSED to be claustrophobic.

In the year 2000 Al Gore and George W. Bush were Presidential candidates. Gore's priority was climate change Bush's was to protect the oil industry. Gore went on to win the popular vote by 500,000 ; but not the election because of the Electoral College vote. The vote in Florida was very close and a recount was being conducted. Bush and the Republican party attempted to stop the recount and appealed to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled in favor of stopping the count; hence the first stolen election in American history.

He was mocked unmercifully by corporate America, the fossil fuel industry, George W. Bush, and the Republican Party. To add insult to injury he was mocked by entertainers such as Jay Leno, David Letterman and SNL. They said he was an elitist and was against jobs because he wanted no oil drilling in the Arctic Wilderness. They mocked him because he was an early advocate of the Internet. They mocked the way he dressed, the way he spoke, the way he sighed.

They mocked the very man who was trying to save them. Keep this in mind when you vote in November. Keep this in mind that this was 26 fucking years go.

ideas for reducing my waste in 2025

using what I have!

Quentin Specque

Environment Artist - Student Artside

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