Ocean Breakdown
Its been nice knowing (almost) all of you. The tiny bits of plastic at the bottom of the ocean poisoning the food chain, and the floaty bits on top of…
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Paul Ryan Lies About Ending Oil Subsidies To Protect His Family’s Cash Bonanza
Paul-Ryan-airquotes.jpg Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been all over the place when it comes to ending the multi-billion dollar subsidies that the oil industry receives every year. While he...
Pentagon Releases New Clean Energy Strategy
pentagon.jpg The U.S. Department of Defense has released a new strategy for how the U.S. military will address growing concerns over energy consumption. The military remains the single largest c...
Report: Broad Bipartisan Support For Action On Climate Change
climatechange.jpg A new report by George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication shows that voters in America are concerned about global climate change, and would support...
Koch Money Fuels AFP Misinformation Campaign On Gas Prices
Obama Gas Bill.jpg The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is taking their misinformation machine on the road in an attempt to convince American consumers that President Obama is causing t...
Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Would Feature Woefully Inadequate Spill Detection System
keystonexlmap_350.jpg According to the NRDC, the proposed $13 billion Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not be able to detect “pinhole leaks” in the pipeline that release fewer tha...
Top Republican Wants To Weaken EPA, Fast Track Environmental Destruction
160px-Rep._Ed_Whitfield.jpg Republican Congressman Ed Whitfield from Kentucky, who serves as Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has made it clear that he will do everything i...
Once upon a time on the bald prairie
In 1935 a group of farmers in Regina, Saskatchewan pooled their savings, re-mortgaged their farms and build the Consumer Co-operative Refinery Limited (CCRL). CCRL is the oldest and largest co-operative…
No Tankers: A Visual Campaign
To learn more, visit the Dogwood Initiative's No Tankers campaign information pages ; to sign the petition click here.
The malignant influence of the Kochtopus
Via Montreal Simon and Alison at Creekside, this little gem: Teabaggers, Astroturfers, the Fraser Institute, robocalls directing voters to the wrong places, Harper wanking on about Canada being an "energy…
The Wall Street Triple-Penetration
The Young Turks have ran a number of stories on how major investment banks have gamed the US and global economic systems. In the video presented below, they discuss how…
Liberate Tate urges dialogue over public/private arts funding
Last Wednesday, April 20, the activist group known as Liberate Tate staged another protest performance at Tate Britain. Set on the anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11…
Basra and Iraq: Oil and Expectations
A strange portrait of the Southern-Iraqi city of Basra is painted in a recent and brief Economist article. Better than Baghdad struggles to find real evidence of improvement of quality…
British Ethics: A Dark Comedy
North Sea Oil Drilling by crawfish head Yesterday, January 6th 2011, the UK Parliamentary committee appointed to look into whether the government should enact a moratorium on deep-water drilling in…
Blowing Up is Hard to Do
"This scares everybody" --British Petroleum COO Doug Suttles, on May 29, 2010, commenting on the failure of the "Top Kill" attempt to stave off the worst crude oil contamination in…
Hearing David Suzuki
I had the opportunity through work to attend the 2009 Canadian Public Relations Society Conference in Vancouver this past June. The second afternoon luncheon was delivered by David Suzuki. I…
Greenbacked-up as hell and not taking it anymore
Roll out red carpetsHere come the China boys-- The Payola$ (1979)A report by Robert Fisk (the only Western journalist to ever interview Osama bin Laden) in today's Independent augurs ill…