Are you kidding me?
Through the devastation in the Gulf Coast, American has come together in a collective attack against BP. And rightfully so. However, news is now coming out that the new prime minister, David Cameron has asked President Obama to minimize the press and blame in the States in order to protect the shares of British investors [...]
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President Obama and The Oil Spill…
Tomorrow evening, President Obama is making an address to the American people regarding the mess in The Gulf.
Like many events in life – this one was not of his doing, nor is it something that he can have much control over. Yet for now – he is our leader, President of The United States. It [...]
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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
“There’s a dead dolphin on this beach,” Mother Jones‘ Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It’s one snapshot of the harm visited on the Gulf Coast by the BP oil spill. Back in Washington, the Senate climate bill, which would put the country on a path to cleaner [...]
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U.S. Earns 1st “Fossil of the Day” at Bonn UN Climate Negotiations
<cross-posted on SustainUS’s Agents of Change blog and It’s Getting Hot in Here>
The United States earned the 1st Fossil of the Day Award here at the United Nations climate negotiations in Bonn. Nearly a week had passed where no country had acted badly enough in the negotiations to deserve a shameful Fossil, until the [...]
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HEAT (Frontline – PBS)
I have just about finished watching “Heat” by Frontline/PBS. This 2 hour show first aired in late 2008 – just prior to the Presidential election. For what ever reason we/I missed it – but – luckily my good friend Ben Adams recently mentioned it to me as a must watch feature.
It is fantastic! (It is [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Oil Spill Could Bring Mass Extinction to the Gulf Coast
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
A cap placed over a severed pipe is siphoning some oil from the broken BP well in the Gulf Coast, the company said today. The company’s CEO said this morning on CBS that it was possible that this fix could capture up to 90% of the oil, but that it will [...]
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Heal the Bay’s Mark Gold on the BP oil spill
I recently had the privilege to speak with the President of Heal the Bay, Mark Gold. It was a frank discussion about the Gulf oil spill and the state of water conservation initiatives.
Mark has been working on water pollution for over 20 years. I wanted to find out how someone with such deep knowledge felt [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Obama’s Responsibility for the BP Oil Spill
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, and BP is saying it will know in 48 hours if its attempt to “top kill” the leaking oil well in the Gulf Coast by pouring mud and cement over it has worked.
If the scramble to stop the leak has ended, the slog [...]
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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Hits Louisiana – But How Far Away is the Next Disaster?
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Oil has hit shore in Louisiana, and despite BP’s best efforts to keep the media away, reporters can now touch the greasy stuff with their hands and feet. The onrush of oil into the Gulf has continued for over a month now, and while BP is still trying to staunch [...]
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Due by June 4 – Application to UN climate negotiations in Cancun, December 2010
Applications are now available for SustainUS’s Agents of Change delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, November 29-December 10.
Applicants must be 18-26 years old at the start of the negotiations, and must be either U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or have been studying or [...]
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