http://www.electrolux.se/Innovation/Campaigns/Vac-from-the-sea/
In the two months since the Deepwater Horizon explosion, millions of litres of oil have gushed out of BP’s well into the water each day, slowly encroaching on the coastline.
A menace to the fragile marshlands, the drilling disaster is also threatening a whole way of life for fishing communities in Louisiana – still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina five years ago.
But this is not all new: Big Oil has a long history in this part of the world.
Fault Lines’ Avi Lewis travels to the drill zone, and learns about the erosion in the wetlands from industry canals and pipelines, the health problems blamed on contaminated air and water from petrochemical refineries.
On the Gulf Coast, it has long been widely accepted that the fishing and oil industries can co-exist. In the wake of the Deepwater disaster, the more destructive (and more lucrative) industry may be the last one standing.
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2010/06/201061682426990347.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/jun/19/naomi-klein-gulf-oil-spill
http://www.restorethegulf.gov
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Tranquilles les gars !
“Au siège de la compagnie de forage pétrolier Transocean, dans le canton de Zoug (Suisse), l’explosion de Deepwater Horizon fut célébrée dans un hôtel de luxe. Le 14 mai 2010, trois semaines après l’explosion, le propriétaire de la plate-forme, évaluée à 650 millions de dollars avant l’accident, attendait de son assurance le versement d’un premier acompte de 401 millions pour la perte occasionnée. Dans la foulée, le patron de la firme, M. Steven Newman, décidait, lors d’une réunion à huis clos, d’accorder à ses actionnaires 1 milliard de dollars de dividendes. Bel optimisme… très raisonné.” (…)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2010/07/SHARIFE/19355
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com
Sure, we all drive a 305-horsepower V-6 Mustang this way to achieved 48.5 miles per gallon !!!
“To reduce load, tires have to be inflated to the maximum to reduce rolling resistance, and turns have to be taken wide to avoid scrubbing. To avoid throttle movement, the driver has to lock his foot in position and avoid stopping or slowing as much as possible.”
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/performance-at-the-pump-goes-extreme/
“you’are not mad enough to not drive your car”
http://tremendousnews.com/2010/06/05/the-oil-spill-re-enacted-by-cats-in-1-minute
http://twitter.com/tremendousnews
recycled (?) bin…?
Car sharing is changing. Sunil Paul, the clean-tech entrepreneur behind a new San Francisco service called Spride Share, looked at the numbers and decided that 10,000 shared cars in the United States was not likely to change the world (even if, as some sharing companies have said, each in-service vehicle takes 15 others off the road). (…)
Drap-Art is a non-profit organization founded in Barcelona in 1995, with the aim of promoting creative recycling through the organization of festivals, exhibitions and workshops.
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Copenhagen Spoof Shames Canada; Climate Debt No Joke
African, Danish and Canadian youth join the Yes Men to demand climate justice and skewer Canadian climate policy
Le Canada victime d’un canular @ courrierinternational.com
Deux faux communiqués ont mis la représentation canadienne dans l’embarras lundi 14 décembre. Le Canada y annonçait un très ambitieux plan de réduction de ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. La révélation de la supercherie vient souligner le manque d’engagement de ce pays sur ce dossier.
