So Fresh and So Green

Dawn soap works best for cleaning birds–who knew?” ~ Brian Merchant, treehugger.com

Obama’s oil slick is spreading while BP execs come up with ridiculous ideas and oil gushes at a rate now being estimated by some scientists as 70,000 barrels of oil a day. The cleanup is going to be extensive though a lot of damage has already been done to the environment there.

It’s been 21 years since the notorious Exxon Valdez oil spill dumped over 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. That is also considered by some as a low estimate.

The oil soaked birds in particular became the icons for the destruction cause by that ecological disaster. (more…)

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I wouldn’t say it has failed yet. What I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work.” ~Doug Suttles the operating officer for exploration and production for BP in reference to the containment dome

I’ve been busy lately and even temporarily derailed by a fallen tree on my electricity and internet wires so I only took in so much news about this disaster in the past few weeks. The more I read and heard the more ridiculous these containment efforts sounded. These ideas are some of the most outrageous, Looney Tunes, Wile E. Coyote-ACME solutions I’ve ever heard of. (more…)

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Palin waves at NASCAR in Feb, 2010.

She could teach Jay-Z and Cassidy about being a hustler homie. Sarah Palin is at it again, this time she’s looking to get an “Planet Earth-type look” in a docudrama in Palin’s home state Alaska according to the good folks at ecorazzi.com.

Sadly once it finds a network home her show will likely be a hit no matter how backwards the idea of Sarah Palindrome as an environmentalist or true nature lover is. I can’t act like this idea is the same backwards and forwards. It’s just backwards and that’s it. If this show gets off we can prepare to look at the appropriation and bastardization of the word environmentalist by the right wing. (more…)

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For those who don’t know Captain Planet was a cartoon about young people, called planeteers, with rings and superpowers and a green superhero that appeared when they combined their powers. Yeah, it was the 90s and stuff like this made it to TV. Also the show showcased 1990s American style diversity, which means there are non white persons as main characters that aren’t as fleshed out as the white characters that are in the majority.

Captain Planet says prejudice and hate are as toxic as any pollutant which justifies the appearance of Hitler in this cartoon. It’s true that prejudice and hate and anger can be toxic to ones self then manifested outwardly to harm others.

What’s with Hitler getting so much burn these days anyway? (more…)

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