Sea Shepherd at Deepwater Ground Zero
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010 Posted in Disaster relief, Species loss, Environmental cleanup, Human Impact, False Solutions, water | No Comments »Important footage showing the scope of this disaster. What an unbelievable nightmare. This will affect all of us for decades. Thanks to Steve Roest and Sea Shepherd.
Faultlines: In Deep Water
Monday, June 21st, 2010 Posted in Social Justice, Human Impact, Environmental cleanup, False Solutions, Politics, water, Energy, Economy, peak oil | 1 Comment »Michael Klare: The relentless pursuit of extreme energy
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 Posted in Environmental cleanup, Human Impact, False Solutions, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »Michael Klare, author of Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, sees the Deepwater disaster as the beginning of the new age of chasing the "tough energy," found miles beneath the ocean, or in dirty, less concentrated sources like Alberta's tar sands. As ...
Reflections on an environmental catastrophe
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 Posted in Environmental cleanup, Disaster relief, Human Impact, False Solutions, Energy, ethics, water | 1 Comment »Abel Collins from RI Sierra Club raises the big questions with strong words at RI Future: Let’s not mince words. We are watching one of the worst environmental disasters humans have ever caused unfold off the coast of Louisiana in ...
The Wrong Kind of Green
Saturday, March 6th, 2010 Posted in Charitable giving, Environmental cleanup, Denial, False Solutions, Politics, Conservation, ethics, climate change | 1 Comment »Johann Hari writes in The Nation on how the environmental movement has, for decades, been co-opted by corporate interests. A must-read for anyone that wants to know the real rules of the game.
Annie Leonard on Cap and Trade
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in False Solutions, Politics, climate change | No Comments »Jared Diamond’s Ecocidal NYT Op-ed
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Posted in Media, sustainable business, False Solutions | No Comments »Stephanie McMillan offers this most excellent response to Jared Diamond's latest exercise in high-profile corporate apologetics in the New York Times. Did it strike you as amusing that Diamond held up Wal-Mart as a shining example of green business ...
NYT:Peak oil? What peak oil?
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in False Solutions, Energy, peak oil | No Comments »Michael Lynch, in a New York Times op-ed attempts to ease our fears about peak oil. You can be assured that the rebuttals are already brewing over at sites like The Oil Drum. Here's a good article by Chris Nelder.
Let us pause for a moment to ponder economic stimulus
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 Posted in False Solutions, Economy, Money | No Comments »No better commentary on our current predicament than this chapter of Chris Martenson's Crash Course. Find the entire Crash Course at Chris Martenson's website.
Appalachian Voices- Mountaintop Removal coal mining
Sunday, January 11th, 2009 Posted in False Solutions, Energy | No Comments »Mary Anne Hitt of Appalachian Voices talks about the ongoing disaster that is MTR, or Mountaintop Removal mining. Visit the website to see how you can help.