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Archive for 'Environment' Category

Fighting Big Oil’s marketing machine

Oct 11th, 2008 by Joe Newman | 4

It’s a Saturday and I don’t feel like doing any heavy lifting. Instead, I’m hoping I can make a point with the three video clips below. The first is a piece by the American News Project that explains how Big Oil has borrowed a page out Big Tobacco’s playbook — use junk science and slick [...]

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Brother, can you spare some ice?

Sep 23rd, 2008 by Joe Newman | 154

This strange scene on the National Mall is one in a series of street art installations that have popped up around Washington, D.C. in recent weeks. I haven’t actually seen one in person but I was on the Metro the morning one of these sculptures shut down a station because officials thought it might be [...]

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Colbert vs. the Sierra Club

Jul 22nd, 2008 by Joe Newman | 203

This is a hilarious exchange between Stephen Colbert and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, even if Colbert is able to get a little jab in there about Pope’s carbon footprint. It is also a great reminder that leaders in the green movement have to keep in mind that everything they do is going to [...]

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