The Science Guy is Back! With a new Website and Exhibit
The other day, I interviewed Kathryn Robinson. Besides being an all-around cool person and climate activist, she works for Bill Nye’s Climate Lab. That’s right, BILL NYE. The Science Guy! How awesome is that? Well, read the interview and see for yourself!
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What is Bill’s Climate Lab?
Bill Nye’s Climate Lab is the brainchild of Chabot Space [...]
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What is Cap and Trade?
The following is a short description of “Cap and Trade” that can be found on the US EPA web site. In addition to being a nice explanation of Cap and Trade, the site reminds us that there are several very successful Cap and Trade programs in place, which have worked well at reducing specific types [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Politics, Power, and the Environment Beyond BP
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Washington has a blind spot when it comes to the environment. BP and the oil spill brought the government’s failures into the spotlight, but the same problems crop up across industries: Corporations pollute water, blast through mountains, and pour carbon into the atmosphere with insufficient oversight. But no one—Congress, the [...]
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Weekly Mulch: As risks for oil and gas grow, USSF offers change
By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
BP oil has been spilling into the Gulf of Mexico for more than two months, and while attention has focused there, deepwater oil drilling is just one of many risky methods of energy extraction that industry is pursuing. Gasland, Josh Fox’s documentary about the effects of hydrofracking, a new technique [...]
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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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