Archive for the ‘Pollution’ Category

You probably thought you were free to carry your groceries home any way you wanted, but you were wrong. You must use plastic. Case closed.

Honestly, what WERE we thinking?

To solve the parking problem and revitalize downtown areas, one urban planner recommends INCREASING the cost of parking your car!

All the world’s a stage, and nothing produces drama quite like an oil spill. But one should look behind the curtains to really understand our dependence on the pump.

Fire the neighbor kid and just buy yourself a goat. Your lawn will thank you.

What would the Chernobyl disaster, the Gulf oil spill, or the floods in Pakistan look like in your home town?

What does it really mean to “go green?”

We’ve top-hatted, top-killed, used robots, hair, floating booms, and tried to stuff the well head with garbage, golf balls, sludge, cement, and Kevin Costner. It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad.

Learn about BP’s latest strategy to stem the tide, and see how they’re seasoning their data to make it more palatable to the public.

TweetToday, a juxtaposition of two very related, but conflicting “strategies” regarding our attempts to extract oil from under the ocean. Of course, if you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll know that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on April 20th, killing 11 people before sinking into the ocean.  Now, the [...]