Now Is The Time For All Good Texans To Come To The Aid Of Their Environment! And The Rest Of The World Is Invited To Put In Their Two Cents.
For over a decade, environmentalists accused the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of lax regulation and urged the EPA to step in. Now the EPA appears to be agreeing with them and has given Texas until June 30 to change its approach or lose its oversight authority at potentially dozens of large industrial sites.
Enough is enough. Please sign the petition in support of the EPA fixing Texas’ broken air pollution permitting system: http://www.environmenttexas.org/action/clean-air/perry-petition2
Gov. Rick Perry continues attempts to block the EPA from (more…)
Why BP Is Stunned By Our Reaction To Their Planet Assault
It’s not only BP terrorizing the planet and they are by no means the first, nor probably the last. Big oil has gotten off scot-free treating Earth like a toxic, septic waste dump for about 100 years. What can be done? Well, a world wide mind-set change from the Ferengi Golden Rule of “The man with gold rules”, change laws and regulations that reward big oil violations with a civil slap on the wrist and a paltry capped fine. It needs to be a criminal offense with ramifications such as: (more…)
A Norwegian-American Woman’s Legacy To Our Green Future
Founded in 1889, the story of Foss Maritime based out of Seattle, Washington, is a quintessential example of the American Dream: Thea Foss, a young Norwegian immigrant and her husband, Andrew, turned one rowboat into what eventually became a world class fleet of tugboats. It started in Tacoma, Washington when Thea Foss bought a used rowboat, hoping to rent it out to help with the family’s finances. After painting it pristine white with green trim (nice foresight!), she sold the rowboat at a profit and used the money to buy several more boats. By 1904, the company boasted 10 launches, a shipyard, a 60-passenger oil powered boat, and a small rescue craft to help disabled vessels. (more…)
It has been perfected longer than the spill has been going on!
So BP, why did you wait for the oil to hit our shores, screwup our Gulf, and terrorize the populous?
Why have you not bought at least one, tested it to the max, found that works as advertised, and then strategically place them in case of a disaster like the one that has been going on for 57 days now?
Now is not the time to be kickin’ the tires and picking out colors!
Order as many as you and can place them along the Gulf Stream …
….. All in favor say AYE! …. The ayes have it …..
The Future Of Green Transportation Looks Extremely Fun
A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft, NASA’s experimental Puffin is a single-passenger/pilot, personal aircraft designed by NASA aerospace engineer Mark Moore and his colleagues at NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Georgia Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Aerospace, and M-DOT Aerospace. (more…)
Pelamis is a giant red machine named after a sea serpent. More precisely, a yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus, one of the few known to thrive in the open sea, found throughout the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans from east Africa to Central America. (more…)
2010 – Birth Of Oregon Sustainability Center’s Living Building
Later this year construction will begin on the edge of the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland, for a living building – the Oregon Sustainability Center (OSC). Bringing together academic, government, nonprofit and business sectors to advance the region’s innovation in sustainability. (more…)
For over a decade, environmentalists accused the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of lax regulation and urged the EPA to step in. Now the EPA appears to be agreeing with them and has given Texas until June 30 to change its approach or lose its oversight authority at potentially dozens of large industrial sites.
It’s not only BP terrorizing the planet and they are by no means the first, nor probably the last. Big oil has gotten off scot-free treating Earth like a toxic, septic waste dump for about 100 years. What can be done? Well, a world wide mind-set change from the Ferengi Golden Rule of “The man with gold rules”, change laws and regulations that reward big oil violations with a civil slap on the wrist and a paltry capped fine. It needs to be a criminal offense with ramifications such as: 
Founded in 1889, the story of Foss Maritime based out of Seattle, Washington, is a quintessential example of the American Dream: Thea Foss, a young Norwegian immigrant and her husband, Andrew, turned one rowboat into what eventually became a world class fleet of tugboats. It started in Tacoma, Washington when Thea Foss bought a used rowboat, hoping to rent it out to help with the family’s finances. After painting it pristine white with green trim (nice foresight!), she sold the rowboat at a profit and used the money to buy several more boats. By 1904, the company boasted 10 launches, a shipyard, a 60-passenger oil powered boat, and a small rescue craft to help disabled vessels. 
A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft, NASA’s experimental Puffin is a single-passenger/pilot, personal aircraft designed by NASA aerospace engineer Mark Moore and his colleagues at NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Georgia Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Aerospace, and M-DOT Aerospace. 
Pelamis is a giant red machine named after a sea serpent. More precisely, a yellow-bellied sea snake Pelamis platurus, one of the few known to thrive in the open sea, found throughout the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans from east Africa to Central America. 
Later this year construction will begin on the edge of the Portland State University campus in downtown Portland, for a living building – the Oregon Sustainability Center (OSC). Bringing together academic, government, nonprofit and business sectors to advance the region’s innovation in sustainability. 
