Author Archives: floegel

On the Bayou

7/22/2010 – 4:54 pm

I was asked this week to write something for a fishermen’s publication about the BP oil spew. Here’s what I sent them:
I was in the Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana in the weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blew out. I’m an environmentalist; I work for Greenpeace. I was there to see for myself what [...]

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Whistling Past the Gas Station

7/15/2010 – 12:29 pm

I started writing about peak oil in this space in 1999; the last time I wrote about it (if I can believe my own search engine) was May 2008. Why so quiet lately?
The recession. In that May 2008 post, I noted that Goldman Sachs was predicting an oil price of $200/barrel in 2010. [...]

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HD4

7/8/2010 – 6:43 am

Next Tuesday is the fourth annual Hansen Day – or HD4 – how do you plan to commemorate it?
What’s “Hansen Day”? Hansen Day – or what should be known as Hansen Day – is July 13. It was on that date in 2006 that NASA scientist and leading climate change
expert James Hansen wrote [...]

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Obama’s a Fool (Part II)

7/1/2010 – 12:20 pm

I was going to get to part II sooner, but there’s been this huge oil spew in the gulf and besides, part II is related to part I – only it may be worse.
At the end of March – three weeks before the Deepwater Horizon disaster – Barack Obama told us he wants to expand [...]

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The Muse

6/24/2010 – 3:47 pm

I found Clio in her cave, high above the Aegean Sea. She looked up from the scroll she was writing when I entered; dozens of other scrolls lay half-unrolled, perched on rocks or unwinding across the floor.
“The technology, of course is unprecedented,” she said, knowing already what subject I’d come to discuss, “The other [...]

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Out of Commission

6/17/2010 – 10:49 am

On May 20, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, leaders of the 9-11 Commission, told a congressional committee that six years after the commission completed its work, the federal government has not taken the steps needed to implement the commission’s recommendations.
The next day, President Barack Obama announced the formation of a commission to investigate the Deepwater [...]

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“We’re Gonna Need Bigger Boat”

6/10/2010 – 11:40 am

My neighbors are starting to refer to our block as “The Farm” because of all the fruit trees and vegetables that grow in our gardens. We have bees and chickens and the guys across the street make beer with hops that grow along our fences.
Margaret is our master gardener, dispensing advice. Last week [...]

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