Just before leaving office, the Bush administration issued sweeping changes to the Endangered Species Act to weaken protections for imperiled wildlife, including polar bears, wolves and whales. Urge Secretary Salazar to withdraw the Endangered Species Act regulations and polar bear rule.
The New West. Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range. Photographs and text by Robert Adams. Colorado Associated University Press, 1974. xii + plates. Clothbound in illustrated dust jacket. Black-and-white reproductions.
“The open American West is nearly gone. The New West is a photographic essay about what came to fill it–freeways, tract homes, low rise business buildings, and signs. In five sequences of pictures taken along the front wall of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Robert Adams has documented a representative sampling of the whole suburban Southwest.”–from the jacket copy
Did you know that global warming could threaten one-third of the world’s known species with extinction by 2050? I just took action to save this wildlife for future generations and I hope you will too.
It’s easy to help. Just visit the website below and send a message to your U.S. Representative:
After a few hard working days on the road, lack of sleep and eating anything we could find we came across a diamond in disguise…Shogun!
Japanese to the rescue!
The team enjoying a well deserved feast…
Check out this fine display of food craftsmanship…
The fire starter…
I told you so. He did this with his finger!
Earth Day 2009, April 22, will mark the beginning of The Green Generation CampaignTM which will also be the focus of the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day in 2010. With negotiations for a new global climate agreement coming up in December, Earth Day 2009 must be a day of action and civic participation, to defend The Green GenerationTM’s core principles: Family with windmills: Renewable energy for future generations.
1. A carbon-free future based on renewable energy that will end our common dependency on fossil fuels, including coal.
2. An individual’s commitment to responsible, sustainable consumption.
3. Creation of a new green economy that lifts people out of poverty by creating millions of quality green jobs and transforms the global education system into a green one.
For the past couple of days the estudio201 crew has been traveling throughout the Lonestar state for the Jack Daniels Studio No. 7 Tour. Right after the New York show we flew into Texas for two back to back shows in San Antonio and Houston. Upon arriving in San Antonio we were scooped up by the rest of the production crew. This trio included the official Rockstar Roadie himself, Mr. Badass Bryson!
Houston we have a problem!
Gerry’s Iphone addiction is getting worse…
The Rockstar and The RV!
Bryson’s pimp machine! He says he can go back to the future and I believe him…
-Rich Rodriguez
Born in Massachusetts - based in LA California. She told herself how to use a camera. She has photographed some of the most famous personalities in the world: Steven Spielberg, Madonna, Brad Pitt, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, etc…
Peggy has also worked for companies such as Zegna, Nautica, Nike, Volvo, etc… She lives outside of Los Angeles with husband Jay, their five children, two dogs, two goats, two cats, and a bunny.
The journey has begun! This week the Estudio201 team kicked off a national Jack Daniel’s tour hitting up nine US cities. The tour launched Wednesday night in NYC at Ibiza Lounge. The first two bands on the tour are some of Mexico’s finest musical imports, Motel and Zoe. Check out the pictures below and be sure to check in throughout the next couple of days to experience the madness!
Motel arriving at the venue
JD never looked so good!
Zoe rockin out…
Green Room fun
- Rich Rodriguez
Name: Michelle Ten
Occupation: Fashion Stylist
Where are you originally from?
Long Island, NY
What was your most rebellious attitude or experience in adolescence?
I used to cut class a lot. I was known as the school bartender, hiding by the back stairwell by the gym mixing drinks.
What are your top 5 favorite albums?
Intro
The Gza- Liquid Swords
Black Moon- Enta Da Stage
Mary J Blige- My Life
What moment in history would you have loved to witness?
Studio 54 at its prime.
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
18
How do you feel about technology?
Its a beautiful thing. If only my dad had a cell phone…
Do you believe in Fate?
yes and no
If you can change one thing in the world what would it be?
World hunger.
NASA has clamped a tight lid on its choice of a name for the international space station’s new wing, but it’s sending an astronaut to break the news to comedian Stephen Colbert on Tuesday night.
Stephen Colbert has threatened to become “space’s evil tyrant overlord” if he doesn’t get his way.
The name “Colbert” received the most votes in an online poll soliciting names for Node 3, a connecting module and its cupola. The comedian has warned NASA he would “seize power as space’s evil tyrant overlord” if the results are not honored.
Astronaut Sunita “Suni” Williams will reveal the decision on the comedian’s show, “The Colbert Report,” which will be taped in New York on Tuesday afternoon and broadcast later at 11:30 p.m. ET on Comedy Central.
“I certainly hope NASA does the right thing,” Colbert said in a news release from the space agency. “Just kidding, I hope they name it after me.”
Colbert’s campaign generated welcome attention for the oft-forgotten space station, but it also presented a dilemma for NASA.
The contest rules spelled out that NASA reserves the right to “select a name in accordance with the best interests of the agency. … Such name may not necessarily be one which is on the list of voted-on candidate names.”
The runner-up was Serenity, which was more in line with the names of other nodes. In 2007, a poll of kindergartners chose the name of Harmony for Node 2.
Colbert demanded NASA allow “democracy in orbit” on his show two weeks ago.
“Either name that node after me or I, too, will reject democracy and seize power as space’s evil tyrant overlord,” he said.
NASA has welcomed the publicity from Colbert’s interest.
“This spread overall awareness of the international space station,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA’s associate administrator for space operations, who has appeared on Colbert’s show.
NASA changed plans to announce the name in late April at Kennedy Space Center in Florida when Colbert’s producers invited officials to do the show, the space agency said.
Node 3 — whatever it’s called — will house many of the space station’s life support systems. A space shuttle mission is set for later this year to deliver the module to the space station, NASA said.
Colbert’s loyal fans, known as the “Colbert Nation,” have in the past bombarded polls to have things named after their idol.
The comedian outpolled every other name in a bridge-naming contest in Hungary. The country’s government later said it couldn’t name the bridge after him because he didn’t speak Hungarian and wasn’t deceased.
Colbert also tried to get himself on Democratic and Republican primary ballots in his home state of South Carolina in 2007. The Democratic Party’s executive council voted against his inclusion, and he did not qualify for the Republican primary because he missed the deadline.
But ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s named a flavor in honor of him, calling it Stephen Colbert’s AmeriCone Dream. And Virgin America airline named one of its planes Air Colbert.
- By Alan Duke