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Want to Stop Global Warming? Keep Out the Immigrants! (Video)

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via Time You’ve likely heard a pretty diverse range of arguments from advocates of Arizona’s draconian anti-illegal immigration law, and of cracking down on immigration in general: immigrants are stealing American jobs, unduly siphoning off taxpayer money, causing crime rates to rise, and other, even more xenophobic claims. But here’s one I bet you haven’t heard before: illegal immigrants are causing global warming . And if we care about stopping climat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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REDD Forest Protection Program Could Threaten Rights of 350 Million People

Posted on June 4, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Chany Crystal via flickr Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there’s also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of indigenous people as international financiers, corporations and timber companies get involved. Mongabay points out that an alte… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Who Will Answer Our Clean Energy Wake Up Call?

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Leilani Münter/YouTube This post originally appeared on Huffington Post . After spending a week in Venice, Louisiana getting an up close view of the BP gulf coast oil spill disaster, talking with locals whose livelihoods are over, and seeing dead wildlife, I am trying my best to look at the positive side. Keep in mind that I just got off the phone with one of my boat captains in Louisiana and he told me he saw six dead dolphins and ten dead turtles in the past few days. So the idea of looking on “the brigh… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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XKCD on BP Oil Spill (Featuring Michael Bay!)

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

This isn’t the whole comic, go to the site to see the whole thing. Image: XKCD , Creative Commons. “A Rolling, alligator-filled wall of flame!” I won’t write too much here because there’s a kind of Catch 22 going on: If you are a geek, chances are you’ve already read this comic, and if you aren’t, chances are you won’t like XKCD. But it’s still cool to see Randall Munroe (XKCD’s creator) give his take on the BP oil spill (hey, it could be worse, just ask Michael Ba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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USEPA Upgrades SO2 Air Standard For First Time In 40 Years – Asthmatics Have Much To Gain

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

” Figure A shows the location of the lungs and airways in the body. Figure B shows a cross-section of a normal airway. Figure C shows a cross-section of an airway during asthma symptoms. ” Caption & Image credit: National Heart Lung & Blood Institute Look past the oil globs and political waffling for a minute and you’ll find good news lurking. USEPA has upgraded the an outdated SO2 standard, which involved long term (daily) average concentration limits, to a short-term standard that better protects asthmatics, for example. By early 2013 expect enfor… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Gulf Spill Just A Drop In The Bucket Compared To What Happens Every Day, Everywhere Else

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

AFP John Vidal of the Guardian writes of an oil spill in Nigeria a few years ago, touring the disaster: Forest and farmland were now covered in a sheen of greasy oil. Drinking wells were polluted and people were distraught. No one knew how much oil had leaked. “We lost our nets, huts and fishing pots,” said Chief Promise, village leader of Otuegwe and our guide. “This is where we fished and farmed. We have lost our forest. We told Shell of the spill… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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1/5th of Americans Still View BP Favorably

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via the US Coast Guard According to a Rasmussen poll , not all Americans are angry with BP, despite the fact that the company has put thousands of people out of work, and the still-uncontrolled spill in the Gulf . In fact, a full 22% evidently still view the oil giant favorably. Which to me, is a pretty surprising number. It’s not that I expected everyone to immediately… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Surprise! The BP Gulf Spill is as Big as these Nations and States …

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Introducing the Best Way Yet to Visualize the Gulf Oil Spill All those vague references from newscasters about how the BP Gulf spill is as big as this US state or that US state got you yearning for a better way to visualize the spill? If It Was My Home has it. Using Google Maps and data from NASA satellites, the clever interactive map lets you build a frame of reference for the spill’s vastness … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Phew! US Has No Plans to Use Nuclear Weapons to Stop the Gulf Gusher

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Andy Zeigert via flickr You’ve probably heard the lunatic proposition floating around the web that the last resort option in stopping the oil gushing out of the the sunken Deepwater Horizon is to deploy some variety of nuclear weapon to blast the leak out of existence. Thankfully, according to a New York Times report, the US government has no plans to act on what one senior official described as a “crazy” plan:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Zipcar to Go Public With $75 Million IPO

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo: Flickr , CC Wanna Own a Piece of Zipcar? Zipcar, the biggest car-sharing player in the U.S., has filed the paperwork yesterday for a $75 million initial public offering (IPO). It was only two years ago that Zipcar bought its smaller rival Flexcar, and since then it has been doing very well by some metrics, though it isn’t yet profitable. What will going public mean for the company?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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