Weekly Mulch: How to Avoid Fracking and Oil Spills in 2011
Editor’s Note: We’re posting the Weekly Mulch on Thursday this week because of the holidays. It’ll return to its regular Friday morning posting next week. Until then, Happy New Year!
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
2010 was a disappointing year for environmentalists.
This was the year Congress was supposed to pass climate change legislation, but each and [...]
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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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The Great Green Hope: A Look at Some of California’s Gubernatorial Candidates
Jerry Brown
The race to the California governor’s office is on. So far, it’s been quite the production. At the center of this year’s gubernatorial spectacle is Republican billionaire Meg Whitman who, thus far, has spent a record-setting $70 million on her primary campaign. Her rival, Republican Steve Poizner, has recently made an unexpected jump in [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Slick of Oil Industry Cash Gummed up Regulatory Works
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is worse than anyone thought, and the crisis will likely go on for months. British Petroleum (BP) is tripping over itself to say it’ll cover the costs of the clean-up, yet before the spill, the company spent its time and [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Oil rig sinks, as does Senate climate bill
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium blogger
Two disasters flared up this week, one environmental, the other political. Off the coast of Louisiana, oil from a sunken rig is leaking as much as five times faster than scientists originally judged, and the spill reportedly reached land last night. And in Washington, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) jumped from [...]
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Make it count: Add products and packaging to the U.S. GHG Inventory
EPA’S draft update of the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990 – 2008) is open for comment. This is a great opportunity to get the systems -based, greenhouse gas accounting view added to the US Inventory. (Note: For those of you that are not GHG-nerds, the EPA inventory is basically THE source of data and analysis [...]
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Weekly Mulch: Bad News Bill
By Alison Hamm, Media Consortium blogger
Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) met with industry groups Wednesday evening to discuss their much anticipated tripartisan climate legislation. Based on leaks from the meeting, it sounds like the climate bill will be incredibly industry friendly, which may mean that the bill does little [...]
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Climate Community Citizen of the Week – Chris Dowsett
Congratulations to Chris Dowsett this weeks Climate Community Citizen of the Week!
Chris is our first winner from south of the equator – being from Australia. We met Chris on-line after checking out his cool website and learning about the excellent work he has done both at home in Australia, and also here as he [...]
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Living Better-Living Green: Life Style Choices and Your Health
We’re exposed to thousands of chemicals everyday in our Environment, Food and Water. These harmful chemicals wreak havoc on the immune system and brain and if exposure to these dangerous toxins isn’t reduced, we’ll continue to see an increase in acute and degenerative disease. This article will highlight key areas in our lives that are exposed to numerous chemicals which create both immediate and long term negative effects on our health.
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Senator Kennedy – a voice for those who need it.
Senator Kennedy was a man with a complex history but one thing is for sure – he knew who he was and the people across the nation that he served.
Over the years he saw much – both good and bad. Possibly one of the most significant decisions of his career was the moment he choose [...]
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