Advertising Age - BP Touts Greenness, Then Asks to Dump Ammonia
Monday, August 20th, 2007
BP has applied for, and received a permit to dump more toxic discharges into Lake Michigan, all the while promoting their green image.
Sphere: Related ContentArchive for the ‘environment’ Category
Animal Diesel at US Pumps in 2007
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
ConocoPhillips, one of the largest US oil companies, and Tyson Foods, the world’s largest meat produces, have recently announced that they plan to start adding animal
fat to the diesel sold by ConocoPhillips at pumps by the end of 2007. The fat, which would come from pigs, cows, and chickens, would be indistinguishable from regular
diesel, and chemically equivalent to diesel itself.
Biofuels shift seen to put major squeeze on food prices
Thursday, August 9th, 2007
A global shift toward renewable energy could jack up food prices by up to 80 percent as crops and farmland are diverted to producing biofuels, an international agricultural
think-tank warned Thursday.
Dennis Kucinich on Energy and the Environment
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
An interview with Dennis Kucinich about his presidential platform on energy and the environment
A vegan who counts Ralph Nader among his heroes, Kucinich doesn’t exactly embody the sensibility of the average American. He says his commitment to sustainability
“extends to everything I am and do” — from the food he eats and clothes he wears to the policies he espouses. It’s the same progressive platform that made him a darling
of the far left when he ran for president in 2004.
An Inconvenient Truth Squeezed from Classrooms
Monday, November 27th, 2006
The National Science Teachers Association has rejected 50,000 free copies of An Inconvenient Truth citing a possible
loss of funding from Exxon Mobil.
Hundered Mile Diet: A Perfectly Local Chicken
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005The Hundred-Mile Diet
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005This is an interesting experiment. It’s amazing the energy that is spent to get
that garden burger on your plate.
