Capitalist environmentalism

I came across two links yesterday which I think work nicely together:
Atlas Sulked, about Ayn Rand following rich people who've decided to protest the new "socilaism" (hah!) of America by taking their vital, superior, money generating selves out of the system by becoming self sufficient hermits
and
Another Green World: Lifestyle Television’s Environmental Turn, on the way environmentalism has been commodified by commercial tv into an individual, consumerist act

I'm not sure I'm quite able to articulate the moral I draw from this. Maybe that "evironmentalism" isn't a homogenous thing: the same behaviours can be done for different motives (helping society or hurting it), and you can pursue the same goals in different ways (individual changes and spending lots of money, or large-scale projects like public transport and power plants, etc) Anyway, I thought they were interesting.

Am definitely not saying that all environmentalism is capitalist and/or bad :)

A satisfying end to the fanart prompts

Final fanart prompt: The time Gregor had the north tower demolished with a gravitic imploder lance for black_samvara

The passage from A Deeper Season (a great Gregor/Miles AU):

"...there's a gravitic imploder lance downstairs in the armory."
"Really?" Ivan said, diverted. "I've never seen it."
"Not the public armory."
"Has it ever been used?"
Gregor coughed. "Not for, uh, traditional combat." Ivan waited.
"I, uh, had them use it to demolish the old clock tower," Gregor admitted finally.
"Really? And you didn't let me come watch? How was it?"
"Most satisfying," Gregor said reminiscently.

And yes, I based the tower on the UWA clock tower, because why not :D I spent ages trying to get it to work as a more complete picture (with backgrounds, other figures etc) but it refused to come out, so I decided to stick with something simple.

The lance is a combination of things (including some very helpful suggestions from the fine folk at lmbujold), but mostly ended up being based on vehicle mounted lasers from this page.
The uniform is based on various historical and modern russian uniforms, especially http://community.livejournal.com/vintagephoto/3448919.html and http://www.daylife.com/photo/07Brg7uezX1Fs
And finally I took the Vorbarra crest from this page (the fanfic explicitly says the colours are silver and black)