Clean and Green Club Best Links for May, 2010
Links about the Gulf Spill:
BP’s behavior, if these sources quoted in NY Times are accurate, is probably criminal (via @gfriend, quoting @climateprogress): https://climateprogress.org/2010/05/03/bp-oil-spill-federal-permit-cut-costs/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climateprogress%2FlCrX+%28Climate+Progress%29
If this is the plan that’s working, I’d hate to see the one that failed: (via @BusinessGreen) https://bit.ly/b2uW3g
RFK, Jr.: Gulf oil spill caused by anti-ethics culture of Bush’s “regulators” in collusion w/ BP, Halliburton: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-lies-and-oil-spills_b_564163.html
BP’s Louisiana oil disaster will have repercussions across numerous industries (Triple Pundit)–and WHY are we still talking about expanding offshore drilling? I think we should be looking at the safety of all the existing rigs, first: https://www.triplepundit.com/2010/05/economic-impact-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-loui…siana/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TriplePundit+%28Triple+Pundit%29
The always-brilliant George Lakoff on how Obama could have used the BP disaster to create a unified multi-issue leadership/moral position #fbhttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/obamas-missing-moral-narr_b_593528.html
Other Links:
My favorite energy futurist Amory Lovins’s TED talk on how to get the US OFF oil entirely, add 1 million jobs & lots of ROI #fb #li https://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2010/01/04/ted.amory.lovins.ted #Green (I love his “Faroffistan”)
Go Green Cars: Videos: Hemp sports car by Lotus lighter, cheaper, stronger than steel. Research by Henry Ford, 1941! – https://tinyurl.com/2b946ez (via @GreenCelebrity)
Prevention Mag: Why you’re greener than you think/24 easy green steps https://bit.ly/bhmS2C
World Bank $12 million program to replace African kerosense lamps (polluting, nonrenewable, carbon spewing) w/ solar (via @whatgreeninvest) https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64H46220100518?feedType=RSS&feedName=GCA-GreenBusiness&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FUSgreenbusines…sNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Green+Business%29&utm_content=Twitter
Even a very conservative study finds that investments in climate change mediation and other Green measures are well-worth doing: https://greeneconomypost.com/conservative-study-climate-action-improves-economy-9723.htm
