Posts Tagged ‘princeton’

Trash talk on January 8th in Princeton

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

TALK: “GARBLOGGING”

4:00 p.m.

Leila Darabi

The world of “garbloggers” is diverse and ever-growing, ranging from artists sharing work made out of recycled materials to armchair environmentalists tracking their own waste to make a political statement.

Leila Darabi, creator of the blog everydaytrash, will give an overview of the many voices talking and tracking trash online and the common themes connecting them.

Trained as a journalist, Darabi works in international development, a career which allows her to blog about trash from the far reaches of the planet.

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Save the date!  This is my contribution to the Princeton Environmental Film Festival hosted  by the Princeton Public Library.  For a complete schedule of events, click here.  Note that my little talk precedes the screening of a trash film which is then followed by legendary trash author, Elizabeth Royte of Garbage Land and Bottlemania fame.

Operation Ivy

Friday, November 14, 2008

  Really people, why am I always the last to know?  I can’t believe that in two years of garblogging I’m only now discovering that in 2006 a group of Wesleyan students travelled around to five Ivy League campuses and made a documentary about diving in those elite dumpsters.  Having grown up on a sucession of college campuses, I’m thrilled to see ANY effort to reduce the waste.  I know homelessness and hunger are complex problems, but when walking around a college campus, especially the well endowed sort, it is hard to fathom how anyone could be needy in this sickly over-satiated country.  Dumpster diving in college towns is so easy it’s more of a public service than a sport.

Of course half of the Princeton students (sample size unknown) polled on this collegate blog disagree that it’s a good idea.  Shocking.