Cli-Fi: Director Tomm Moore’s Song of the Sea

January 3, 2015 Morphizm 0

Like his Oscar-nominated feature debut The Secret of Kells, his new stunner Song of the Sea is steeped in regional folklore but still a universal wonder. But it is a more personal epic, about the extinction of mythological seal people called Selkies, as explored through a lighthouse family riven by loss and misunderstanding but healed by history and magic.

Cli-Fi Is Real

October 29, 2014 Morphizm 0

Cli-fi is the cultural prism through which we monitor and experience ourselves as we bleed our planet dry while trying to become machines.

No One Wins the US China Solar War

August 22, 2014 Morphizm 0

We’re in the slow-motion throes of an environmental apocalypse whose existential ravages are terrifyingly “irreversible.” Now is not the time to be arguing over solar cash.

Deal With It: The Legend of Korra

July 31, 2014 Morphizm 0

“I am certainly proud to add Korra to the pantheon of TV characters, which is perpetually sorely lacking in multifaceted female characters who aren’t sidekicks, subordinates or mere trophies for male characters,”

The Future of Microgrids

May 30, 2014 Morphizm 0

But much of the changes we need will come from customers who can’t get what they want from the grid, concluded Asmus. “Ten years out, microgrids will be an everyday, non-controversial decision.”

People and Places Making Microgrids Work

May 29, 2014 Morphizm 0

Current efforts by utilities to stifle cleantech takeovers of the macrogrid, from solar taxes to worse, are being successfully fought off, as global warming throws ever more challenges in the way.