*VANITY* environ-MENTAL-ist Bulletin Board!!

EBUCK ^ | 08/23/2002 | EBUCK

[EBUCK]

Here we go folks. Our anonymous FR bennifactor has kicked in $870 to get our Medford / Central Point Bulletin Board up! Imagine it....some dirty little green watermelon driving north after a long hard day filled with protesting and what's that up ahead? Why it's a Bulleting Board that reads...

Sound good. Well what if that BB stayed there right up until ELECTION DAY? That would be even better.

This is a golden opportunity!

[Carry_Okie]

Sorry, THIS post.

[EBUCK]

I like this one best...

This one is owned by the BLM, so I think it's PD.....

EBUCK

[Paul Atreides]

Here is a background I have worked up. Please keep in mind that all of this is preliminary. Once a decision is make, I will work up a final product.

[Carry_Okie]

The shot was taken along Arizona SR-260 between Show Low and Heber. Crappy timber, and ready to burn again even hotter.

[EBUCK]

Definately stick with the text as is (awesome job). I'm not sold on your background though. We need a bit more devastation depicted methinks. But there is something to be said for a simple background, gives the foreground message more impact. Whaddyou think?

EBUCK

[Carry_Okie]

IMHO lose the flames.

They're a distraction.

[EBUCK]

Lemme guess....no logging/clearing allowed?

EBUCK

[EBUCK]

Good call. Lose the flames and perhaps a red aura would serve to relay the threat of fire.

EBUCK

[Paul Atreides]

I could redistribute the trees more. The main reason I used such a simple background was taking into account that the graphic will be significantly enlarged. I am not sure how a photograph would look, enlarged so much. It would definitely look good to have a photo. However, something simple and sparse would give the message more punch. I will work up something with a photo and one with the simple graphic.

[Carry_Okie]

Not a stump in sight.
Scraggly trees bolting for light.
Overcompetition for water abets beetle attack.
Groundcovers are destroyed by the droppings from wind collisions.
The heat from the fire destroys much of the groundcover seed bank and hardens the soil abetting runoff.
Without cover or adsorption the first rains flood the creeks with a wretched boiling alkaline ooze.
Fish die.
Topsoils get stripped.
What you get is weeds and erosion.
Great system.

Had enough?

[EBUCK]

Yah, at 12'x20' those pixels would get pretty big.

I will work up something with a photo and one with the simple graphic.

Very cool. I think that without the flames your simple background works very well. And I agree, a little rearanging of the trees could do it some good.

I'm outahere for the evening. If I don't check in tomorrow I'll certainly be here first thing monday morning. Thanks guys.

EBUCK

[John Lenin]

How about this bulletin board.


Environmentalists brag about using fraudulent science

According to Dr. Wattenburg, Steven Schneider of Stanford University once bragged that even though one doesn’t have good science to support one’s conclusions, it’s better to scare the masses for the sake of the Earth and lie to them than it is to not say anything. You can read in DISCOVER magazine, Oct 1989, pg. 47. In part, it reads:

On the one hand, as scientists, we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but…. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broadbased support, to capture the public’s imagination…. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have…. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.

[EBUCK]

I've got to buy your book ASAP! Good night gents!

EBUCK

[tubebender]

I may have missed it but what is the size of the Bill Board ?

[tubebender]

The four most powerfull words in advertising..."RIGHT AT NEXT EXIT"

[ChadGore]

http://users.wi.net/~johnh/enviro.jpg

[ChadGore]

bump

[ChadGore]

bttt

[Chad Fairbanks]

My kids just brought me back presents from Alaska.. One is a shirt that has a bunch of animals (a bear, a moose, etc...) "mooning" whomever is looking at the shirt, and it reads, "Back to nature" heh heh heh ;0)

But I digress... I wonder if, with enough donations, a billboard could be placed in each state here in the west that has suffered bad wildfires this year...

Just a thought... :0)

[WaterDragon]

Not a bad idea. Better to focus on Oregon for now, at least for Oregonians....we need to throw the lefty Democrats out of office, from Congress right down to local councils.