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Earth: The Sequel; Emissions Inventory: The Prequel
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now I always thought that Earth: The Sequel could have been better named. It’s a catchy title, but it sounds like it could be a post-doomsday piece when, in fact, it is...
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Oil spills, and the economics and environmental impact of resource depletion
(This essay was published by Post Carbon Institute on June 1, 2010 under the headline, The End Is Nigh – Deepwater Horizon and the Technology, Economics, and Environmental Impacts of Resource...
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Hands Across the Sands plans a public demo against oil drilling
From Green Right Now Reports The message of Hands Across the Sands, its founder likes to say, is simple: Say ‘No’ to oil drilling and ‘Yes’ to clean energy. Hands Across the Sands in Florida in Feb....
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Hands Across the Sands: The story in photos
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now In a symbolic but moving gesture, the Hands Across the Sands oil drilling protest on Saturday brought out people from Miami to Melbourne to stand in solidarity for...
View ArticleHow to — and how not to — help dolphins during the oil spill
From Green Right Now Reports You’ve probably encountered those “Don’t Feed the Bears” signs in national parks. Well, it’s true of dolphins also. NOAA has put out notice that the public should not...
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J.R.’s back and he’s not promoting oil
From Green Right Now Reports Larry Hagman promotes solar power for Solar World. Solar World AG, one of the largest photovoltaic solar panel manufacturers in the world, with factories in California,...
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Where did all the oil go? Look out below
From Green Right Now Reports Still wondering where all the oil from the BP spill ended up? To the chagrin of those who would prefer to think it magically disappeared, scientists on a research vessel...
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California’s Prop 23 looks increasingly combustible
No on 23 protesters outside a Bay Area Valero gas station. (Photo: Crush Prop 23 Campaign) By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now When the Prop 23 proponents launched their grenade to blow up California’s...
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EPA’s Jackson asks Congress: Should ‘politicians overrule scientists on a...
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Clashing over climate change and clean energy bubbled anew in Washington today as Congressional conservatives who want to restrict or remove the EPA’s authority to...
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Same story oil over again
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Once again the U.S. finds itself caught in another “conflict” with petroleum as a backdrop. Whether you believe that we needed to intervene in Libya to protect...
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GOP senators try to force-start Keystone pipeline, despite Obama’s order for...
Green Right Now Reports Less than a month since the Obama Administration delayed the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for at least a year, a group of GOP senators is trying to force the project...
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Coal is plentiful, so let’s keep it that way
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now You know that argument about how the U.S. can’t really impact greenhouse gases because they’re spiraling out of control in other developing nations like China and...
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How ‘The Washington Post’ got it dead wrong
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Electric car supporters have responded to a slap down by The Washington Post editorial board last week, which blamed the Obama Administration for wasting money to...
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One action that could slow both the deficit and climate change
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Beyond that mention at the Republican Convention when Mitt Romney won a laugh quipping that President Obama had promised to keep the oceans from rising, it’s...
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Will your university divest from fossil fuels?
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Concerned about the heavy toll that carbon pollution is taking on the planet, students across the US are petitioning their colleges to divest from fossil fuels....
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Stop the Frack Attack rallies in Dallas
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Scores of people worried about the environmental effects of gas and oil drilling in the US, gathered at the Stop the Frack Attack conference in Dallas this weekend....
View ArticleFossil fuel industry gets a boost from solar power
The Associated Press reports that oil and natural gas companies are using more solar power to provide electricity to power remote monitoring stations after the hydraulic fracturing crews have left.
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Six women climb London’s ‘Shard’ skyscraper to protest Shell’s planned arctic...
From Green Right Now Reports Six women climbed London’s tallest building, the glitzy, 310-meter-tall “Shard,” on Thursday to protest Shell Oil’s plans to drill in the Arctic. Greenpeace, known for...
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US oil producer says the Keystone XL pipeline is not needed by US oil firms
Green Right Now Reports A story posted by Reuters today quotes an oil company chief saying his firm no longer considers Keystone XL a viable way to transport crude oil from the Bakken Shale in North...
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BP oil disaster continues to kill wildlife, report says
GRN Reports Damage from the 2010 BP oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico continues to turn up in the form of dead dolphins and sea turtles, according to a report released today by the National Wildlife...
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