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Who said environmentalists were sexless and prudish?
Greenhouse gas may not be very sexy, but a group of self-proclaimed “ecobabes” in Sonoma County found a unique way to bring out global warming’s naughty side—posing for a pinup calendar.
HOT! Er, I mean, warm. Er, climate changed.
The 12 female environmentalists were photographed—fully clothed, for the most part—in an effort to raise money for the Climate Protection Campaign of Sonoma County and seduce the public into reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Oh, it’ll reduce emissions. No question of that.
The pictures are not nearly as racy as Playboy or even Sports Illustrated’s famous swimsuit issue. The models are seen reclining amid flowers, prancing around in hot [climate change—ed] pants, lounging pensively on a pier or, in the case of the cover girl, showing her body in silhouette behind a shroud.
Aside from a few thighs and a vague hint of cleavage, there is precious little skin in the 2007 ecobabes calendar.
Thank God for that. Yet sister environmentaloids are offended:
Titillating as it is, the calendar has turned off some environmentalists. The Northcoast Environmental Center, based in the Humboldt County town of Arcata, refused to display the calendars in its popular eco-boutique.
“I felt it was objectifying women and using their bodies to make money,” said Alisha Clompus, 26, an artist and anthropologist who is office manager for the Northcoast center. “It’s like making money off another form of oppression.”
The day I invent a name so splendidly, drearily evocative as “Alisha Clompus”, I’m outta here. It simply can’t be beat. Let’s see what these fully-clothed ecobabes have to say for themselves:
• Karen:
I eat chocolate almost everyday, and that’s not grown in my bioregion, so I suppose that could be considered a serious eco-confession.
Hit nonbioregiondietconfessions.com for further sassy online choc-chat.
• Monika:
When I look at a bird, I reflect on its role in the ecosystem. If we lose that bird we lose not only its beauty, but also the services it provides to the world and therefore to us all.
Birds as service providers. Hadn’t previously thought of them in that role, which is possibly only because they don’t actually provide any services.
• Eydie:
We’re here where we are. I feel I am here because I’m supposed to be here. Whatever the circumstance is, I’m supposed to be.
Should be an interesting court case if Eydie ever presses charges against someone who assaults her.
UPDATE from Mike D: “First we have the ecobabes. Then we have the right wing babes. Like you thought there’d be a contest?”
- The breadth of the intellectual discourse by the EcoBabes is stunning. They are truly infused with the spirit of Gaia.Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 11 28 at 09:14 AM • permalink
- They were right to put inverted commas around ‘ecobabes’. You’ve got to be careful about false advertising complaints these days.Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 11 28 at 09:14 AM • permalink
- Well, now, Bonny’s rather a buxom wench, and Camila’s kind of cute. But what’s the deal with Lindsay and that stupid sunflower hat? Or is it a hat? In that headdress, she puts me in mind of the Aztec goddess, Chantico, who is described thusly at Crystalinks.com: “In Aztec mythology, Chantico (’she who dwells in the house’) was the goddess of fires in the family hearth and volcanoes. She broke a fast by eating paprika with roasted fish, and was turned into a dog by Tonacatecuhtli. She also wears a crown of poisonous cactus spikes, and takes the form of a red serpent.” These ecobabes may be fooling with powers far beyond their knowledge and comprehension.
- I love Eydie’s cogitations: “We’re here where we are.” As opposed to someplace else, I guess. Or as Buckaroo Banzai put it, “Wherever you go, there you are!”Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 11 28 at 09:37 AM • permalink
- “I eat chocolate almost everyday, and that’s not grown in my bioregion, so I suppose that could be considered a serious eco-confession.”
Point #1: Somebody should tell her that “chocolate” isn’t grown.
Point #2: If she’s concerned that cocoa (or cacao, or whatever the preferred English spelling is) isn’t grown in her personal chocolate-consuming bioregion, there’s an easy solution: Move to where it is. Might not be as appealing a place to live as Sonoma County, of course, but we all have to make sacrifices in the name of Gaia, right?
- By the way, check out the opinion poll in the article: 63% of the respondents said that the calendar is “not in keeping with the ideals of the environmental movement.” The option “If you don’t like it, don’t buy it” was picked by only 5% of the respondents.
I knew the econuts were humorless scolds, but this defies belief: this gaggle of Mrs Grundys is bent out of shape because a group of women freely choose to promote their cause by taking some mildly attractive photographs of themselves. This tells me everything I need to know about environmentalists’ attitude toward human freedom and the open society.
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2006 11 28 at 09:49 AM • permalink
- Well, I must say I’m pretty proud of the Blair gang. Nine comments in and not one guy has said that “Miss July can warm my globes heh heh heh” or even mentioned temperature rising. Instead we’ve had a lively discussion on socio-cultural attitudes on impending doom and the modern-day manifestation of Aztec myths. What a cultured bunch!
- These women may not be mensa material but the calendar is harmless and can in no way be considered sexually exploitive. This Alisha Clompus is the tiresome one of the story. And she is only 26. My hope had been that when the boomers died off (of which I am one) so would this pedantic humorless thinking.
- Another intriguing interview excerpt, by Kellie (who’s kinda cute):
What crazy thing have you done?
Probably the craziest thing I have ever done was when my husband and I quit our jobs in Pennsylvania, packed up our car and decided to take a long trip across the country. We didn’t know where we were going, but we wanted to find a new place to live. We traveled the whole summer and then my clutch went out in Petaluma and here we are four years later.
It’s gonna take her years to become carbon-neutral again.
- What a cultured bunch!
No, it’s just that from the two examples I’ve seen this lot is better seen fully clothed. There’s no need for eco-indulgences carbon-credits to assuage guilty feelings for looking at naughty pictures.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 11 28 at 10:01 AM • permalink
- Well Tim, as we say around these parts (south of the Mason-Dixon).
I wouldn’t attempt sexual congress with any of them even with your appendage.
Or something like that.
Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2006 11 28 at 10:06 AM • permalink
- I’d say they are playing fast and loose with the term “babe”…Posted by Not My Problem on 2006 11 28 at 10:12 AM • permalink
- I like Karens diconnect with reality.
“ envision a world where nature informs everyone’s lives, where we use locally grown food and products, and where our work benefits our community.
To that end, I am a writer and a graphic designer,”
Which will feed and clothe who?? And if nature “informs everyones lives” then theres not going to be much need for your line of work.
I want to know if putting one of these on the wall will act as a mini-Gore and save on air-conditioning.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 28 at 10:38 AM • permalink
- Paco, (#21) Snap! I thought of P.G. Wodehouse the instant I read “Alisha Clompus”.
Dickens came in a close second, but who can ever forget the Margoyle’s superb coining of the nom de Spoon; “Andrew Bartleweet”
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 28 at 10:42 AM • permalink
- Sheesh, Paco, that #4 post is gonna give Floss a run for his money. Well, maybe a brief stroll for his money. You and Wronwright been clicking “Pre-Columbian” on the Tardis dial?Posted by crittenden on 2006 11 28 at 11:05 AM • permalink
- #13 debi L. –
These women may not be mensa material but the calendar is harmless and can in no way be considered sexually exploitive.
Oh yeah, that’s the way to get those calendars to sell. Might as well beat the rush and mark them down to 50 cents and stick them on the BARGAINS shelf in the foyer at Barnes & Noble. Hell, place them on a table outside the door with a placard that says “HONOR SYSTEM, please pay for this inside”. Anyone that would want to steal a calendar won’t, once they see the pin up girls. And those that wouldn’t steal would pay inside. Assuming they were gainfully employed and had money to spend on anything other than food.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 28 at 11:19 AM • permalink
- “Global warming” has recognition in this case of judicial adventurism. It has made the jump from film, to coffee shop to being an irrefutable fact. It is putting a $10+ billion planned export coal mine in jeopardy.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWLEC/2006/720.html
Posted by boxofmatches on 2006 11 28 at 11:22 AM • permalink
- Speaking of calendars, compare and contrast: ecobabes versus Marines.
http://www.freedomisnotfree.com/
Posted by Sonetka’s Mom on 2006 11 28 at 11:26 AM • permalink
- Oh, and I’m shallow – but re: calendar – “woof, woof”.Posted by boxofmatches on 2006 11 28 at 11:30 AM • permalink
- I’m with Alisha. I strongly object to the objectification of women and even more vehemently object to those who might objectify them.
Even though I spent a happy five days at the Gabba watching the to-and-froms getting a thorough pasting, I still strongly object to those among us who might be women objectifiers.
Well, that’s enough of that, time to go to bed.
Posted by Whale Spinor on 2006 11 28 at 11:34 AM • permalink
- #26 Jules: Mentalfloss could run through the whole galaxy of Aztec gods in the time it took me to dig up the dope on Chantico.
Wronwright and I did, indeed, make a stop in Pre-Columbian Mexico City. Talk about your close calls! They gave us robes made of parrot feathers, offered us our choice of nubile honeys, and all the food we could eat. We even got to officiate at one of their weird basketball games (lotta turnover in that sport, seeing as how they executed the losers; they must have had a great farm system). But I knew something was up when I asked about the last white gods who had dropped in. The high panjandrums just stammered and grinned sheepishly and changed the subject to the current corn crop and so forth. Upon being pressed, however, they finally admitted that their previous visitors had died. As near as I could make out, it seemed that they all died on the operating table from radical heart surgery (probably all that spicey pork). Well, I wasn’t about to hang around waiting for my arteries to get so bad that one of those Aztec sawbones felt compelled to start carving, so we skedaddled.
As an artist, performer, MC for events, and avid creative thinker, I constantly generate playful ways to engage people in caring for the earth. My alias is Betty Biodiesel who dresses up as a sunflower and educates people about biofuels. I lead a project called biofuels4schools.org, am part of a co-op working to increase biofuel distribution in this region, and have a Green MBA.
I laughed so hard when reading this. All that work and energy she invested in this noble cause. And for what? It created no benefit whatsoever except for making Miss Sunflower feel good about herself.
But I will say that I did look at some of the photos of the Ecobabes (mainly due to paco saying one of them was buxom, a surefire way to get me to look at anything). Boy am I disappointed. I had a big hard on from watching slides of my high school math teacher’s school bus trip to Alaska. His wife drove the second bus and once she wore knee length shorts.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 28 at 11:37 AM • permalink
- Actually, that should read “I had a bigger hard on …” Sorry for the mistake. I was stilll laughing hard at Miss Betty Biodiesel’s earnest statement.
(please note: for the record I didn’t really get a hard on from watching the vacation slides, but I did get one from watching Kathy Cosler who had sat in the front row that day wearing a very tight pair of jeans, something called a body shirt I think, and what I’m fairly certain was a stuffed bra)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 28 at 11:47 AM • permalink
- Hmmmm.
I think what’s needed is a reply by the Uncaring Gaia-Destroying Morlocks of Tim Blair. Perhaps a calender of various commenters in their favorite poses slowly destroying the Earth.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 11 28 at 12:35 PM • permalink
- #40 Jamieinnh: I dunno. I ventured into the image gallery for Bonny, and her legs didn’t look so bad, although the quality of the photography may be at fault. Maybe these photos were taken by Arab stringers working for Reuters. Or maybe I’ve been ruined by the calendar I get every year from one of our clients: it has pictures of agricultural and mining equipment.
- #42 Ed: What a first-rate idea! Here’s my entry .
- #42, ed, here’s my contribution to the Tim Blair Eco Calendar. I intend to boost emissions by staying there, playing there, and getting to and from by using one of these.
- If we lose that bird we lose not only its beauty, but also the services it provides to the world and therefore to us all
One wonders if she’s also the emo girl on youtube:
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2006 11 28 at 01:44 PM • permalink
- No more italics.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 28 at 01:58 PM • permalink
- I have to say, that while most of those ecobabes aren’t babes, they are attractive in a wholesome, down to earth manner. So to speak. If you ignore any Mother Gaia™ related antics (e.g., that Chantico wannabe).
And dates would be a bitch…..think of the dinner conversations: “I reduced my eco-footprint by 5% today by not showering! What did you do to save the earth?”
No thanks!
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 28 at 02:04 PM • permalink
- Ecobabes + Toyota Prius = suckiest SEMA exhibit ever.Posted by Matt in Denver on 2006 11 28 at 02:22 PM • permalink
- Interestingly, not one of these ecobabes* would seem to have any desire to become the wife of a Third World subsistence-level farmer…
* Sorry about the italics.
Posted by JJM Ballantyne on 2006 11 28 at 02:38 PM • permalink
In fact, I figured that’s the “reduced emissions” Tim was talking about…
I know what Dave and PW mean, but I was thinking that “reduced emissions” referred to less flatulence from both an eco-friendly diet and the intensely clenched butt cheeks one would expect of people who are so clearly anal-retentive.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 28 at 03:28 PM • permalink
- I only use shade grown fair trade organic italics hand crafted within my own bioregion. By indigeous tribesmen. Tribespersons.Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 28 at 03:28 PM • permalink
- They can’t be, Dave…..italics lean to the right, not to the left. See?Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 28 at 03:43 PM • permalink
- Now close your eyes and imagine those ecobabes standing next to you – shoulder to shoulder – in the global fight against Islamofascist terrorism.Posted by neoZionoid on 2006 11 28 at 04:28 PM • permalink
- #72 – Imagine them as human shields. Now that I’d get behind. Literally.Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 28 at 04:47 PM • permalink
- I wish someone had told me that birds were service providers.
Next time I put some seed out for the lorikeets I’ll have to insist that they cut the grass and perhaps iron my work shirts.
Thanks MonikaPosted by Hank Reardon on 2006 11 28 at 05:22 PM • permalink
- Crittenden had a lovely line of thought on his blog.
Why not cut the crap and call them carbon indulgences. Much the same as the scandalous selling of indulgences by the Catholic church eventualy bit them on the ass this could do the same.
It also has a lovely mystical ring to it. Im suprised Paco inc. havent secured the rights to these yetPosted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 28 at 06:29 PM • permalink
- 46 paco
that was beautiful, man. *sniff*.
Here’s some tissue …poor guy…yeah yojimbo, helluva writer…and as soon as I finish cuttin’ these onions up…I’m gonna’ read his post..:).
- #74 – tribeswymyn. Or trybswymyn.Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 11 28 at 08:16 PM • permalink
- At least California can produce ecobabbling females who don’t look like yetis, if not far emoved- imagine a Byron Bay produced item, featuring the likes of Anne Summers, Margo Kingston and Bob Ellis in drag?
BTW, boidies do a wonderful service, especially in the eyes of those who regard humanity as the cause of all earthly ill-s- by incubating and spreading influenza, they may play a major part in wiping out the homo sapiens virus.
(And they’re delicious as well- Peking duck last night, 5 courses out of the one bird- what a versatile critter).
- They killed thousands of trees to print a
fully-clothed
pinup calendar.I mean, really, what else do you have to know to understand the level of thinking going on there?
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 11 28 at 09:19 PM • permalink
- Down comes Pirelli calendar… up goes Sonoma County “Ecobabes” calendar.
What’s the bet that days like Summer Solstice and Winter Equinox feature prominently, but Christmas has been rendered a normal day.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 28 at 10:38 PM • permalink
- Alisha Clompus brings up memories of Jean Shepherd’s (A Christmas Story) stories that included the Bumpus hounds next door.
Or Faulkner’s Bolus and Snopes stories.
Clompus is such a Southern US name.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 11 28 at 11:28 PM • permalink
- Clompus.
onomatopoeic, like whack, slurp, crack, fart, gurgle, giggle, slap, click, snap, creak, pop…
- #63 – Well, Ms. Clompus’s mosaics are not horrible, much to my surprise.
Mosaic power points! What the hell kind of environmental statement is that? Her target market shouldn’t be using mains power!
They’re not horrible but they’re painfully twee. The sort of thing sold in suburban art-and-craft markets and turned out by someone who has done a short course at the local University of the Third Age.
Posted by walterplinge on 2006 11 28 at 11:52 PM • permalink
- Hardest part of eating fruits and veggies is swallowing the sequins and the wheelchairs.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 29 at 12:19 AM • permalink
- #31 whale spinor
Mate, at the SCG our beer wenches make this bunch of ecobabes look like boys. Now I ask you what could be better than:-
– Watching the Poms get a thrashing
– While having your personal beer wench (38” D cup usually) go fetch beers for you and your mates and stand in the lines
– Have the rest of the crowd green with envy.Life doesn’t get better than that….
- I like this one from Ecobabe “Marianne“
“I’m genetically designed to care”Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 11 29 at 01:33 AM • permalink
- #101 – She also loves playing the accordion.
Luckily I’m genetically designed not to give a shit.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 29 at 01:39 AM • permalink
- Well, I learned that Pescatarian is not a sign in the Wiccan Zodiac.Posted by Crispytoast on 2006 11 29 at 01:54 AM • permalink
- #102 hehe
I’m not sure what their issue is with eating food that is made or grown outside of ones bio-region.
I’m assuming they are dead against all the food aid that gets shipped to Africa, Indonesia, New Orleans, etc.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 11 29 at 02:42 AM • permalink
- And who broke open the Italics jar and showered this thread with them?
The crew at Webdiary would be most distressed to witness such waste.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 11 29 at 02:47 AM • permalink
- Ecobabe? Woman charged with bestiality
report from: AAP via news.com.au
A NSW north coast woman has been charged with bestiality and offensive conduct after allegedly being involved in an indecent act with a horse.Posted by stackja1945 on 2006 11 29 at 07:18 AM • permalink
- #100 bonmot –
Mate, at the SCG our beer wenches make this bunch of ecobabes look like boys. Now I ask you what could be better than:-
– Watching the Poms get a thrashing
– While having your personal beer wench (38” D cup usually) go fetch beers for you and your mates and stand in the lines
– Have the rest of the crowd green with envy.Life doesn’t get better than that….
bonmot, you’d like Bally’s Sports Book in Las Vegas. 30 huge TV screens with every kind of sporting event being televised. Comfortable chairs. And ladies serving beer and “food regular men like” while wearing tight and brief striped referee shirts and short shorts.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 29 at 07:25 AM • permalink
- Hmmmm.
I knew there was a reason why I was considering relocating to Las Vegas.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 11 29 at 11:39 AM • permalink
- Dave: See this Google search for a definition of “bioregion”. I used TinyURL to get around the sometimes glitches associated with Google.
Although they might be referring to this as well. One never knows about ecobabes.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 29 at 02:20 PM • permalink
- I know I should be.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 11 29 at 07:19 PM • permalink
- Common thread between eco-babes – ugly as a robber’s dog and half as smart.Posted by Fluent Idiot on 2006 11 30 at 04:32 AM • permalink
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