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February 26th, 2009
Video: The Coen Brothers Take On The Myth Of Clean Coal.
Great stuff.
A reminder that clean coal does not exist.
Category: Pollution
December 31st, 2008
Video – The Reality Of So-Called “Clean Coal”.
From the Reality Coalition, who are debunking the myth of “clean coal”. The video is pretty funny, and sadly true. Coal companies are spending huge sums of money marketing coal as “clean” rather than actually making it so. But the truth is in America, burning coal for electricity emits more global warming pollution than [...]
October 19th, 2008
EarthTalk: On Plastic Bag Floating Islands.
Dear EarthTalk: What are these “ocean deserts” I’ve been hearing about? Also, didn’t I read that there was a huge mass of plastic bottles floating around somewhere on the ocean surface?
So-called “ocean deserts” or “dead zones” are oxygen-starved (or “hypoxic”) areas of the ocean. They can occur naturally, or be caused by an excess [...]
June 11th, 2008
Images Of Plastic Bags Polluting Life On Earth.
This is why we need to ban plastic bags as soon as possible and make it mandatory that people bring their own reusable bags to the store. San Francisco did it. A city in Maryland did it. The entire Whole Foods chain did it. The western Indian state of Maharashtra did it. In [...]
