The Truth About Keystone XL
As Senator Markey logically explains in this video, the Keystone XL Pipeline is not part of an all-of-the-above plan, and it’s “not about helping Americans at the pump.” It is about “oil above all.”
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Tag: Big Oil
Why Solar? Why Not Solar?
Which sounds better: powering your home using a clean source that’s located right on your own roof, or letting some ridiculously rich dudes and/or utility companies decide how you should and shouldn’t power your home (usually by picking the dirtiest energy source possible)? If you’re not sure how to answer this question, maybe the above video can help.
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Fracking 101
The above video (cleanly and interestingly animated) explains the dirty, dangerous process of fracking and why natural gas should just be left in the ground. Edward James Olmos narrates with his usual quiet authority, and though he doesn’t say so, I’m sure he’d agree with me that we all need to tell the frackers of the world […]
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Sunshine States — Not!
This just in: Solar-installation incentives have been eliminated in Florida. Florida. You know, The Sunshine State…. That’d be like Vermont (The Green Mountain State) saying, “Green mountains are stupid. Let’s not have those anymore.” And we shouldn’t be surprised. Big Oil has probably just seen the future, and they aren’t in it, so they’re of course putting up […]
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The Devil’s in the Fine Print
As Rachel shows in the above video, Nat Bates (mayoral candidate for Richmond, California) was basically bought by Chevron in an attempt to control how Richmond handles a certain Chevron-owned oil refinery. California is one of the states where political ads have to say who’s paying for them, so the billboards with Nat’s face on them […]
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Our Education: Germany’s Tuition Free Universities
Having often considered that I’d like to live in Stockholm, Sweden, one of the (technologically speaking) greenest cities on Earth, I discovered recently — through Parker Molloy’s Hello-Giggles article — that there is yet another good reason to be living in Europe, or to just go there for a long visit. And it has nothing […]
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