You don't want Earth to look like this, do you?

No Impact Week starts today! This event from Green Umbrella aims to create a consciousness about the impact of everything we do on our environment. A paradox to mull over: making an impact by not impacting.

Contemplate how your life as a Columbia student affects the world around you…playing frisbee on the lawn, eating at John Jay dining hall, staying up late to study, playing music on Low Steps. Then, because CC and Lit Hum prepared you for this and you probably just can’t help yourself, critique the concept of trying not to make an impact on the planet and assess its merits.

This Earth Week program is a collaboration among CU Green Umbrella and Columbia students and faculty from different clubs, schools and departments, and with the No Impact Project. Register for No Impact Week events here.

Rather cheap gimmickry via Wikimedia

If you are reading this, that means you aren’t on the steps (or, like Bwog, you are, but have wireless). And that means you’re missing Planet Earth.

Currently: “Jungles”. “Caves.” The administrators just announced, hazily, that they were playing the episode until 10 PM. If you just left, get back out here!

UPDATE 9:02 PM: Jungles is ahead right now, with Shallow Seas and Deep Ocean tied for second!

Late breaking news about Bacchanal’s 4/20 screening of Planet Earth.

The mind-wrecking Discovery Channel miniseries is appearing in Low Plaza on a 14′ X 26′ screen, and you get to pick the two episodes being shown. To vote, just follow the link. But first, let Bwog tell you what to vote for.

Paul Barndt: Go for Deep Ocean, the only one of the episodes that seems to take place on another planet entirely. This is a place of strange, malformed creatures so far removed from the sun they’ve turned transparent. Maybe you’ll even see an ultra-squid. But what’s this about using the Sigourney-narrated American Planet Earth? Attenborough 4 lyfe, Bacchanal!

Michael Molina: I want to see epic battles and Great Plains has two of the four

great hunt sequences in the Planet Earth series. In

addition to the heartbreaking story of the caribou’s fall, the episode

also features the pains of a lion’s hunger that The Bronx Zoo or a JTT

sing-a-long cannot provide. This episode is a varied account of

ecosystems that delivers some of the best action sequences of the

series as well as fantastic sweeping visuals that instill a feeling

that mankind has not completely obliterated Planet Earth.

Bonus Dark Horse Candidate! The “subtle merits” of Shallow Seas had considerable underground support on the Bwog listserv.

Now get to it! Why vote for CCSC when you can choose between monster jellyfish and and killer cats?