BP CEO Tony Hayward Testifies Before Congress (Live)
published June 17, 2010 and has No Comments
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Read more...The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Obama’s Oval Office Gulf Spill Speech: Bold Plan or Empty Rhetoric? (Video)
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
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Read more...Obama’s Oval Office Gulf Spill Speech: Bold Plan or Empty Rhetoric? (Video)
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Read more...The BP Gulf Oil Spill By the Numbers
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Image of oil spill on June 10th via NASA The BP Gulf spill has long been declared the greatest environmental disaster in US history. Millions of lives have been impacted, thousands of livelihoods lost, and unquantifiable damage done to wildlife and ecosystems. And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of ...
Read more...The BP Gulf Oil Spill By the Numbers
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Image of oil spill on June 10th via NASA The BP Gulf spill has long been declared the greatest environmental disaster in US history. Millions of lives have been impacted, thousands of livelihoods lost, and unquantifiable damage done to wildlife and ecosystems. And while president Obama took the oval office last night to deliver a speech chock full of ...
Read more...What, Exactly, is BP Hiding from Reporters?
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Images via the Huffington Post and the AP By now, enough incidents have been confirmed and/or caught on tape to say that BP is indeed preventing the press from accessing some impacted areas. Reporters from Newsweek, NPR, PBS , CBS , a number of local news organizations, and many more have all been turned away from public beach... Read ...
Read more...What, Exactly, is BP Hiding from Reporters?
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Images via the Huffington Post and the AP By now, enough incidents have been confirmed and/or caught on tape to say that BP is indeed preventing the press from accessing some impacted areas. Reporters from Newsweek, NPR, PBS , CBS , a number of local news organizations, and many more have all been turned away from public beach... Read ...
Read more...Oil Spill Esimate DOUBLED AGAIN: 2.5 Million Gallons Leaking Every Day
published June 16, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Reuters And once again, things get worse and worse in the ongoing catastrophic saga that is the BP Gulf oil spill . Shortly after Obama took to the oval office to give a speech to reassure the nation about the spill , officials released the newest estimates of how much oil was leaking from the Deepwater Horizon ...
Read more...Obama’s Gulf Spill Speech: "We Cannot Consign Our Children to this Future"
published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via the New York Times Obama just wrapped his first address to the nation from the oval office, discussing the federal response to the BP Gulf spill and how the event relates to energy policy in general. The speech was pretty standard Obama -- plenty of powerful rhetoric and sweeping appeals to look forward. What I was listening ...
Read more...1.1 Million Gallons of Toxic Chemical Dispersants Now in the Gulf
published June 15, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via OSTC With the gruesome pictures of oil-covered birds and soiled shorelines now rolling in, and the narrative of the spill split between BP's continued inability to get a handle on the flow from the source and the federal government's inability to get a handle on BP, an important element of this debacle has slid under the radar: ...
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Female Cyclists Say They’d Give Up Sex Before Biking 2012-02-08
A Bicycling Magazine survey of women cyclists showed them choosing to give up sex for a month rather than give up biking. So much for 'sexy' cycle chic. Here is the original post: Female Cyclists Say They'd Give Up Sex ...
More in this category ...The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To Work With industrial Relics, Graffiti and All
The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
