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...]
Coal industry punk’d by hilarious spoof website
"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...]
Transition Voice to become industry mouthpiece
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...]
Koch brothers want to show their softer side
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...]
Don’t know much about geology
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...]