Snagged from Grist

Sarah McLachlan produced a video for her song "World on Fire" about the costs of producing a music video to highlight some of the issues with consumption and what other purposes her money could have been used for some time ago.

Reminiscent of this, Sheryl Crow has a video for her new single showing a parade of facts while she performs the song "Shine over Babylon." The song itself doesn't do anything for me, but if something is going
to be in front of people's eyes and has a chance to bring the wider
world to them, I'm all for it.

If you'd like to check out and read usually scathing commentary on other artists efforts scroll to the bottom of the post on Grist.

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Video discussing some of the ethics of using an automobile

StreetFilms has a new video up, wherein Randy Cohen, writer of New Your Times Magazine's "Ethicist," is interview about cycling and some of what he views as unethical behavior by motorists.

Part of it discusses issues specific to NYC. Some of the broader ethical questions that are discussed aren't new, though its nice to hear them voiced. Most are rooted in the car obsessed and centered society that we have created and the tradeoffs that are made between convenience for one group or for ourselves versus some benefit to another person or community.

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