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Archive for June, 2010
Riki Ott: Not One Drop
Jun 2nd
I’ve been following marine biologist Riki Ott since the spill first started, when my mother-in-law from Anchorage shared her information with me. People in Alaska know Riki very well. She’s made available the book she wrote following her work with Exxon Valdez clean up as a free download. She is asking for donations to be made available for recovery efforts on the coast. More >
Letters To Your Governors
Jun 2nd
I found a Facebook page this morning, formed to yell at Alabama Governor Bob Riley and tell him to take action to protect the Alabama coast line without waiting for BP or the federal government to act. That’s a solid message that needs to be conveyed, but I doubt if Governor Riley is reading Facebook pages these days. To that end, every citizen of every state should be sending messages to their elected officials telling them to take action in their position to have Corexit banned immediately! Simply do a Google search for your governor’s name and “contact” and most should have online contact forms or ways to email them.
To make it easy, I wrote a letter to Governor Riley (Alabama is my home) and have pasted it below. More >
Too Rational For Reality – How To Clean The Oil Spill
Jun 1st
We just really love this approach from Michael J. Evans for cleaning up the BP oil spill. Here is a snippet from Michael’s common sense thoughts, but you should read his entire plan.
When oil hits the beach, tourism takes a nosedive. The federal government should rent those vacant hotel rooms (fines and damages from BP should easily cover the cost of the rooms). Then fill those hotel rooms with volunteers and unemployed workers who are willing to travel to the beach to help in the cleanup effort. Additionally, hire fishermen and other Gulf Coast residents who are out of work due to the oil spill. More >
