Vintage, which is publishing the paperback of Crude World on August 10, has done a wonderful job on the cover design, methinks.
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The New Publishers
Stepping into the void left by mainstream media reducing their foreign coverage, the VII Photo agency has teamed up with Medecins sans Frontiers to produce a multi-part multi-media series on world hunger. Showcases the work of Antonin Kratochvil, who’s always amazing, and Ron Haviv, among others. ...
To BP Or Not To BP?
The Big Money
June 7, 2010
I needed to fill up the gas tank of a rental van a few days ago. The first station that came into view was a BP on 110th Street in Manhattan. I had to make a quick decision—should I buy gas from a company responsible for the largest oil spill in U.S. history?
I laughed at ...
To BP Or Not To BP?
“The truth is that we care mightily when BP wreaks havoc in the Gulf of Mexico, but we pay scant attention when Shell harms Nigeria, when Chevron pollutes Ecuador, when PDVSA stains Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, when Suncor extracts oil from tar sands in Canada. It’s understandable that ...
Öl – Das Blutige Geschäft
This is for the readers of my blog who speak German (a population estimated at 1-2). German radio has posted what appears to be (if Google Translate can be relied upon) an interesting discussion about the German ...
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, N.C.
Delivering keynote address at clean energy conference. For the time and other details, click here.
Jane S. Mckimmon Center
North Carolina State University
1101 Gorman Street
Raleigh, North Carolina 27695
Oil in Ecuador…
An oil pit and gas flare in the Oriente region of Ecuador. Chevron faces a multi-billion dollar lawsuit for pollution in the region during the 1970s and 1980s. (Time/Ivan Kashinsky)
…and in Louisiana
A dragonfly tries to clean itself as it is stuck to marsh grass covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Garden Island Bay on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana. (AP/Gerald Herbert)
5,000 Barrels a Day
The amount of oil that is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico at BP’s broken well. The video shows one of the two main rupture points.
Update: Scientists who have seen the video say the leak is much more than 5,000 barrels a day.
We Are All Nigerians Now
In an interview on the marvelous “The World” radio program, I describe the ways in which the spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought home to America, quite literally, the environmental ...