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David Anderson is the Founder and Publisher of Important Media. He started his first blog on the nexus of energy and environmental issues in 2006, and has focused exclusively on renewable energy, sustainability, green business and environmental politics ever since. David graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego with degrees in Political Science/International Relations and Sociology, and minors in Biology and Law. David lives in San Francisco, and tries to stop thinking about work long enough each week to eat, sleep, and play some ultimate frisbee.MSNBC is reporting that overnight a small tug boat hit a wellhead in a road-inaccessible marsh located along an inland waterway on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans:
Crews don’t expect to be able to cap the well before 6 p.m. ET, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft [...]
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Why haven’t natural “energy + alcohol” products received more attention?
One of the trends that has bothered me most over the last few years is the massive profusion of outrageously-flavored artificial-ingredient-packed energy drinks — even among responsible, generally-sustainability-aware young adults.
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This is a story that is just getting started. From Wired.com’s Danger Room blog, via SFGate.com’s CityBrights HuffPo clone, “BP Hires Mercs to Block Oily Beaches”:
BP, in a move destined to go down as one of the bestest public relations moves ever, has apparently hired a private security company to help to keep pesky reporters from [...]
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When you think of dire public health prognostication, you don’t normally look to Business Insider.
But when something’s this important, it doesn’t really matter who’s reporting information as long as it’s credible.
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The impromptu citizen journalists over at Project Gulf Impact have just posted their short interview with overnight blogosphere celebrity Kindra Arnesen, whose public speeches about the dire possibilities that no official sources are talking about have garnered tons of attention. This one is a bit shorter–definitely worth 4 minutes of your day.
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In The Oil Spill Catastrophe: Biggest Ever? Not Close, David Ropeik claims that the tricks of the human mind make this seem like a bigger deal to us than things that also have huge impacts on us, but happen constantly all around us:
Bravo to the folks who want us to appreciate what this disaster is doing [...]
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NBC News is reporting that the cap keeping the flow rate at relatively consistent levels over the last two months has been removed by BP, creating what appears to be a massive increase in the amount of oil gushing from the hole.
Youtube:
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Today Zach posted an overview of the potential for widespread toxic rain as a result of the Gulf disaster. But now, Drudge has just posted what appears to be video evidence of oil-infused rain dropping in Louisiana.
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There are innumerable bits of information floating around in the battle over the narrative of this national disaster. This one is particularly disturbing. From AOL’s Daily Finance just over a week before the spill:
“…the days of independence have come to an end for Boots & Coots as the company has agreed to sell out to [...]
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