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Polaroid appears to be the next brand of film to go extinct, the company having just announced plans to completely shut down all of its film-making facilities. It seems they are hoping another company will license the technology to continue producing the film for the devoted (hint hint Lomography).

Kodak was the last big name extinction, an event that British artist Tacita Dean captured on, well, film, documenting the final runs of celluloid at the factory, for which she won the prestigious Hugo Boss art award in 2006.

Update:  Turns out there’s a whole site/movement dedicated to saving Polaroid

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The environment…it’s still hot. Well, no big surprise there. In fact, it may seem like we’re a little late to the game. But alas, I don’t think we are.

We have yet to ask ourselves - how will all of this environmental overload of information, fear mongering, crazy weather, green washing, truth telling, government subsidizing, law making, affect the way consumers think about and respond to pictures?!

Hello Map Report #2: AspEn. The report is hot off the press, literally. We applied the same methodology we used in the first one, but also interviewed some really cool people like Davis Guggenheim (who directed An Inconvenient Truth) and Simran Sethi (who is the founder of treehugger.com and a frequent guest on Oprah).

The whole project was a great experience (more on that later on). Click here for an excerpt to wet your whistle. Let me know what you think, I’d love to get a discussion going. I would love to hear from you about how you think the environment is affecting your work, your workplace and your life.