Monthly Archives: August 2010

Slackline Around the World Week 11: Oh Snap! No Peas for Me in NYC

Follow all of Mean Joe Green’s Slackline Tour on Wend Magazine’s blog.

I’m hungry and tired and arrived in NYC (the end of my US tour!) without any type of fan fair. Yet my spirits lifted when my slackline passed a beautiful fire escape garden. Throughout, this cross country slacktour I ate a generous amount of burritos, consumed more beer than a cartoon man on a slackline should, and ingested countless bugs, a few bats, and a hawk (it was either him or me), but when I passed this garden and saw the juicy snap peas taunting me from within their iron sanctuary, it took all of my restraint not to snap into a snap pea.

After following Mike Lieberman’s (CanarsieBK) exploits as an NYC fire escape gardener I couldn’t get myself to take what was not mine and moreover, what was so beautifully and dutifully tended to and loved.

Hungry, tired, and without inner peas, I am done crossing our great country by slackline.
(Talk about not leaving a footprint.)

I’m heading across the Atlantic towards Portugal in a few days. I’ll include my updated Mean Joe Green SlackTracker next week sometime.

Peas.
MJG

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Hank D and the Bee: Hank D Eggs the Bee


From Grist: Michael Pollan on egg recall and the high costs of cheap food

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.

Pesticides and ADHD


From Grist: More research linking pesticide exposure to ADHD in kids

Slackline Around the World Week 10: Guess What. You CANNOT Slackline Over the White House!

Slackline Around the World Week 10: Guess What. You CANNOT Slackline Over the White House! Reposted from Wend Magazine’s blog.

Who knew my slackline from Asheville to NYC would go directly over the White House? Not me! I swear!

Well, that’s me half way to the Big Apple, all lit up like a Christmas tree. After I convinced the Secret Service to untrain their lasers from my hungry, tired body I was escorted by helicopter about 400 yards north on my slackline.

They understood that the surprise of quickly becoming all aglow in red lasers explained the small amount of urine that leaked from my dehydrated cartoon midsection. As I explained to them, I did not intend to pee on the White House. I voted for Barack and think he is doing a fine job (although I’d like to see stronger action in regards to the environment and clean energy, but that is not entirely his fault)! Now had I been innocently slacking above the White House during the Bush years…well that urine may have been intentional. And I’m sure I wouldn’t have lived to type about it…

Off to NYC (beginning to rethink the world tour,–America may be enough…)!

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Hank D and the Bee: Hank Your Clothes Out to Dry

Hank D and the Bee: Hank Your Clothes Out to Dry, reposted from NaturalPapa and EcoChildsPlay.

This is not a common occurance for clothesline drying, so don’t worry…

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.

Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets (cartoon)

Monsanto Gets Beat–May Lose Beets–Reposted from Wend, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave, and Ecopolitology.

A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto‘s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets.

This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track.

Sugar beet, you are a beacon of hope for your genetically altered veggie brothers and sisters.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White you are a beacon of hope for humans who eat food and drink water.

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Hank D and the Bee: Water is a Human Right (and Wrong)

Related Info

General Assembly Adopts Resolution Recognizing Access to Clean Water, Sanitation as Human Right
ProtectingWater.com

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.

Elton Ad Libs at Rush’s Wedding, Sings “Scandal in the Wind” (cartoon)


I was floored to find out that Elton John sang at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. That is, until I heard what he sang…

And I hope everyone out there is very familiar with Howard Zinn. If there was ever a man (God rest his soul) that was the EXACT opposite of Rush Limbaugh, Howard Zinn was that man. If you are not familiar with Mr. Zinn, start here, then here, then here…then keep going.

What does Rush have to do with the environment? A lot. But let’s start here.

Rush fan?
Check out this one: Rush Limbaugh: #1 Source of Greenhouse Gas Emission (cartoon)

Slackline Around the World Week 9: Got a Book and a Song in Asheville


Was treated to some great street entertainment as I strolled above lovely downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Ian Moore, “fiddler and such-like” was singing, dancing, and fiddling to great fanfair just outside of Asheville’s famed bookstore, Malaprops (across the street from a wonderful beer garden and restaurant intuitively dubbed The BierGarden).

After Ian’s set I threw down some dough and kindly asked if he’d run into Malaprops and fetch me Wendell Berry’s teriffic book, What Matters. He kindly obliged (that’s Ian Moore-speak) and I now have entertainment for the long slackline trip past the nation’s capitol and on to NYC. CYT! (See you there!)

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Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon)

Chemicals and Obesity Speeding up Puberty in Girls (cartoon) – Reposted on Wend Magazine’s Greenery Page, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave, and Ecopolitology.

The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough?

Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of toxicity in our children.

BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy

“BP’s Getting All Cap-Happy” Reposted from Wend Magazine, Twilight Earth, and Ecopolitology.

If only BP would put all of this new found cap success to work to stop other toxic gushers…

Hank D and the Bee: How (and When) to Water Your Lawn

“Hank D and the Bee: How (and When) to Water Your Lawn” Reposted from EcoChildsPlay and NaturalPapa.

Don’t let water evaporate during the hot summer days. Water your lawn in the middle of the night, like Hank!
More tips on watering lawns, here.

Follow the rest of the Hank D and the Bee series at JoeMohrToons.com. For cartoon updates and other green goings-on, follow Joe on Twitter @GreenCartoons.