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Genetically Modified Garden of Eden?

Posted on February 29, 2012 | 1 Comment

More on our food and labelling GMOs

From Huffington Post: Why We Must Occupy Our Food Supply
From Label GMOs: Spread the Word!
From EatDrinkBetter: Judge Sides with Monsanto in Lawsuit

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GMO-Tainted Blood Poisons Unwitting Vampires

Posted on February 8, 2012 | Leave a comment


Get involved with LabelGMOs.org to help get GMO labelling on the 2012 ballot in California.
Success is California should portend success across the rest of the country. We could be the next France…or Hungary.

Cartoonist’s note: This image will soon be added to my Anti-Monsanto T-shirt store.

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It’s Confirmed. We are Being Attacked by Aliens!

Posted on February 1, 2012 | 2 Comments


My other 2 Newt cartoons: From my archives, and yesterday on Lynn Hasselberger’s “Putting it Out There“.

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Finally, the Pro-life/Anti-earth Oxymoron Explained.

Posted on January 25, 2012 | Leave a comment


It is confusing to me how a large group of Republicans can be so vehemently pro-life yet so anti the environment. Either these people don’t understand that protecting the environment from major polluters and pollutants keeps all life (humans included) free of unnecessary toxins and carcinogens (SEE LINKS BELOW), or as the bumper stickers clearly state, they simply prefer the unborn.

If you are one of these mind-boggling Republicans, remember these toxins and carcinogens get into the mother and have an immediate and drastic effect on fetuses. If anything, protect the earth from harmful toxins for the fetuses. You won’t have to call yourselves “environmentalists”, call yourselves “Fetus Purifiers”, or something of the like…I’m sure you’re quite clever.

By the way, there are even Republicans environmentalists. You can join them (or him).

It’s never too late to stop cutting off your nose to ensure the major polluting industries that back your politician keep making insane profits (sharing none of the gains yet all of the “unforeseen” losses) while making us sick. I think that’s how the saying goes…

More on protecting the environment for fetuses (and the living)

From Medscape: Childhood Cancer and Environmental Toxins Are Both Increasing
From Discovery Health: Infant Development and Toxins
From Sierra Student Coalition: Tackling Childhood Asthma Not Coal Industry Priority After All
From NRDC: Benefits of Organic Food (or, “Why conventional farming is harmful”)

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Big Coal Shaping Public School Education–Really!

Posted on December 23, 2011 | Leave a comment

This cartoon was inspired by the Washington Post article, “Energy industry shapes lessons in public schools“

Big Coal may be molding our youth with pro-coal propaganda, but worry not, Big Coal also offers a “green” video to teachers called “The Greening of Planet Earth,” which says that “our world is deficient in carbon dioxide, and a doubling of atmospheric CO2 is very beneficial.”

Doubling the CO2 is good for you. By you they mean their bottom line. Afterall, to Big Coal “you” are either a means to drive profit or block profit. They’re doing what they can to make sure our children do not grow up and do the latter. Of course, they’re also making sure our children grow up with an increased risk of asthma, premature death, and mercury-related illness.

Fortunately, the EPA just set new rules to limit mercury and other toxic emissions. As David Roberts of Grist states, “It will save tens of thousands of lives every year and prevent birth defects, learning disabilities, and respiratory diseases. It will make America a more decent, just, and humane place to live.”

David, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, must not have gone to a Coalementary School. However, these folks did!

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Coal “Mine”

Posted on November 9, 2011 | Leave a comment

More on all things coal

From OpenSecrets.org: Coal Mining: Top Recipients (and MUCH more)
From Second Nature: Coal-Fired Plants Linked to Asthma (and the disprportionate amounts of coal-related asthma cases in the black community)
From Greenpeace: Climate Enemy #1: Coal
From Grist: We could replace coal power with geothermal—10 times over
From OnEarth: Coal on a Roll
From CoalTattoo: Jeff Goodell: ‘Coal more powerful today than ever’
From Mother Jones: Rick Perry’s Dirty Deals With Big Coal

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Koch Industries Makes Global Warming Go Away

Posted on November 3, 2011 | Leave a comment

More on Those Crazy Kochs

From ClimateProgress: The 1% Have a Stranglehold on Politics: New Al Jazeera Documentary Sheds Light on the Koch Brothers (watch the video)
From ALECexposed: ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection
And this one’s just funny–From ClimateProgress: Irony Can Be So Ironic: Anti-Science, Anti-EPA (“Koch darling”) Jim DeMint Says Inhaler Ban Will “Hurt Quality of Life”

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Fuel Efficient Cars are not “Earth Friendly”

Posted on October 20, 2011 | Leave a comment


Terms like “less bad” and “better” may be a bit more truthful, but to call any car “earth friendly” is laughable. If you truly want to make your car “earth friendly”–stop driving it.

For all the good news about fuel efficient (“better”) vehicles, check out Gas2.org.

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Holy Sh#t! Joe Barton is Crazy! (cartoon)

Posted on July 13, 2011 | Leave a comment


The scariest quote was the one I left off where he called the American people smart because, “after all, they keep re-electing me”. I left it out because this cartoon is meant to illustrate how bat-shit crazy Joe Barton is, not how unimaginably daft his constituents are.

Although, as a commenter on the Huffington Post said in reference to a 2010 HuffPo article about Crazy Joe defending BP after the oil spill: “Hey man, it’s Texas. Home of numerous oil billionair­es, corporate corruption­, presidenti­al assasinati­ons, and the Bushies.”
Good point.

More on Crazy Joe Barton

From Shit the Tea Party Says: Joe Barton quotes (they missed a lot of winners)
From Grist: In dimwitted move, GOP set to repeal lightbulb standard that saves billions
From PolitiFact: Rep. Joe Barton says a four-pack of incandescent bulbs cost $1.99 while one CFL bulb costs $9.99

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America: Land of Opportunity (to get cancer)

Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 Comment

“Moving to America will increase your cancer risk by 400%.”

In a recent Ted Talk, Robyn O’Brien (author of “The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It.”) recently shared her insight as to why moving to America will increase your cancer risk by 400%.

This information has been ignored for too long and is definitely the reason President Obama tasked his Cancer Panel with studying the long-term effects of exposure to known carcinogens and environmental toxins.

…And maybe it’s the reason so many empathetic (sic) politicians pushed for a US/Mexico border wall a few years back. They didn’t want to increase the risk of cancer for the immigrants. Those who signed the bill, I apologize for once thinking you were archaic, xenophobic, nationalists. It is now quite clear that you are all a bunch of sweethearts.

Stay sweet.

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World’s First Waste-Free Baby!

Posted on June 2, 2011 | 2 Comments


More on diaper-eating shrooms, from Treehugger: Mushrooms Can Break Down 90% of Diaper Materials Within 2 Months

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The Republican with the Heart of Gold

Posted on May 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

*Cartoonist’s note: This cartoon is inspired by the House Energy Action Team (HEAT). More on HEAT after the cartoon.

More on HEAT

From DeSmogBlog: GOP House Energy Action Team Is Dirty Energy Dream Team
From GreenChipStocks: 28 Bureaucrats Who Sold You Out For A Little Oil Money–$4 Million Gets You $4 Billion In The Oil Game

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Our Solar System: 2100

Posted on May 10, 2011 | Leave a comment


Too bad RoundUp resistant weeds aren’t a nutritious superfood or a zero-emission superfuel, considering the weeds now infest about 11 million acres. The coverage of the controversial weed is now five times greater than three years prior, and David Mortensen, Penn State weed scientist, shares, “There is reason to believe this trend will continue into the future.”

If the weed infestation keeps growing apace the approximately 37 billion acres of Earth’s land will be infested in about 15 years and the 9 trillion acres of ocean would take another 25. I just rounded my projection in the cartoon’s title up to the year 2100 because, hey, I’m an optimist.

Obviously my math projections above are in jest, but with studies linking RoundUp to cancer, cell-damage, birth defects, soil depletion, groundwater pollution and more, I’d say it’s time to start looking for a RoundUp-resistant-weed resistant planet.

More on Monsanto

From Organic Lifestyle Magazine: Monsanto Company Profile
From The Organic Consumers Association: Millions Against Monsanto
From Me: More Monsanto Cartoons

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

Posted on August 28, 2010 | Leave a comment

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

Posted on August 20, 2010 | Leave a comment

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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Slackline Around the World, Week 2 – Passing Mount Hood

Posted on June 17, 2010 | Leave a comment

The Around the World Slacklining Tour can be seen weekly on Wend Magazine’s blog.

Got a little encouragement from a friend today. My pace is quickening–getting more steady on the line. Should be able to be in a new city each week from here on out.
See you in Boise!
MJG

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When Toxic Water and Oil DO Mix: HYPOXOILAR!!

Posted on May 27, 2010 | Leave a comment

“When Toxic Water and Oil DO Mix: HYPOXOILAR!!” Reposted from Wend’s Greenery page.

This is what will soon come to pass as the toxic mess that is the southern Mississippi River continues to mingle and intertwine with both the Gulf of Mexico’s Hypoxic Dead Zone (thanks Monsanto and other companies making chemical fertilizer) and the growing Gulf oil spill (thanks BP and those who refuse to drive less)–HYPOXOILAR! Watch your back!

This is actually a better drawing of Rush Limbaugh than the one I did for last week’s cartoon…

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Wind Turbine Syndrome Will Kill Us All!…If it Were Real. (cartoon)

Posted on December 8, 2009 | Leave a comment

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 11/23/09

Mean Joe Green #80: Wind Turbine Syndrome Will Kill Us All!…If it Were Real.

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Marijuana Killer Apologizes for Ruining our Country–From Beyond the Grave (cartoon)

Posted on December 8, 2009 | Leave a comment

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 11/12/09

Mean Joe Green #79: Marijuana Killer (William Randolph Hearst) Apologizes for Ruining our Country–From Beyond the Grave

Related Articles

AMA Now Believes that Marijuana Has Medical Value
Hemp Vs. Marijuana: What’s the Difference?
Uses of Hemp
William Randolph Hearst (scroll down to “Yellow Journalism” and “War on Marijuana”)

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Writing the Perfect Protest Sign (cartoon)

Posted on December 8, 2009 | Leave a comment

Originally posted on RedGreenandBlue.org on 11/6/09

Mean Joe Green #78: Writing the Perfect Protest Sign

Rule #1: Resort to name calling/labeling
Rule #2: Never consider the other side’s motivation
Rule #3: Refer to rule 1 and 2.

I wish these folks were protesting the end result of the actual chain of events that will lead to their future joblessness, which is:
Decreasing demand for coal (due to health concerns for earthlings and earth)=lost jobs for coal miners=find another similar job to suit your skills=can’t because factory jobs have long been shipped overseas to skirt environmental regulations and to exploit cheaper labor=PICKET THAT!–picket lost middle class jobs, the shrinking middle class, and the growing disparity between the rich and poor!

These good people have a right to be angry–but not at the “Treehuggers” who want to put an end to our dependence on fossil fuels. Their hostility needs to be directed at the coal (throw in oil, plastic, and biotech) industry fat cats who have long made billions while poisoning the world (poisoning the world poisons those who live in said world).

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