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Portlandia, the best city since Cicely, Alaska

By Lindsay Curren | January 3, 2012

Pickle Sketch

Portland, Portland, Portland. It seems like Portland's all we ever hear about when some great new thing is happening in the world of clean energy, proactive government, mass transit, holistic health, spiritual wellness, social innovation or cultural offerings. It's like Portland is God's own petri dish for hatching the best of the best, the most progressive of the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts Tagged With: peak oil plan, Portland OR, satire

Coal industry punk’d by hilarious spoof website

By Erik Curren | May 12, 2011

Kidz Koal Korner graphic

"Why free inhalers? Because COAL CARES. For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler, Coal Cares™ lets them inhale with pride," announces a website that claims to be "a goodwill campaign from your neighbors at Peabody Coal." But Coal Cares is actually a spoof done in the culture-jamming style of Adbusters or The Yes Men by a new coalition called Coal Kills Kids. As a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Adbusters, Big Coal, culture jamming, mountaintop removal, Peabody Energy, satire, The Yes Men

Transition Voice to become industry mouthpiece

By Staff Reports | April 1, 2011

Obama Big Oil

In a move that stunned media and energy industry observers, Transtion Voice, the upstart Web rag that emerged last year to cover peak oil, climate change and the Transition movement, announced today that it would shift its focus to cheerleading for Big Oil, Big Coal, and Big Nuclear instead. "There's not a lot of money to be made in telling the story of energy decline, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: Barack Obama, Big Coal, Big Oil, energy policy, peak oil, plutocracy, politics, satire

Koch brothers want to show their softer side

By Staff Reports | March 23, 2011

Koch Adds Life

In response to an increasing amount of bad publicity fingering them as puppet masters behind Governor Scott Walker's union-busting drive in Wisconsin, the Tea Party's push to cut government services and pro-corporate, climate-science denying astroturf groups such as Americans for Prosperity, Charles and David Koch are now fighting back. This month, they're launching a new … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Americans for Prosperity, climate skeptics, Koch Industries, plutocracy, satire, Scott Walker, Tea Party

Don’t know much about geology

By Staff Reports | January 20, 2011

screenshot from "Peak oil debunked in 4 minutes"

For the most delightfully homegrown and idiotic debunking of peak oil theory you're likely to find this side of NASCAR at Talladega, check out "Peak Oil Hoax Debunked in 4 Minutes." In the words of the video's creator HorseCents, who claims to follow "in the footsteps of the great gentlemen orators of the Old South": This video exposes the eco-socialist Gaia conspiracy to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Video Tagged With: peak oil skeptics, satire

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