Check this out. Apparently Chevy is running an online contest to design a new ad – and hasn’t gotten around to censoring the entries yet… UPDATE: 3:15 eastern. The Ministry of Memory at Chevy has apparently swung into gear, and the video’s gone now. It was a hilarious ad for an SUV with some pointed … Read More
Day: March 29, 2006
Feeling Peckish? How Your Breakfast Fuels Our Oil Addiction
Great article on Alternet today by Chad Heeter about the amount of fossil fuels needed to make your average breakfast. According to Heeter “an average of over seven calories of fossil fuel is burned up for every calorie of energy we get from our food. This means that in eating my 400 calorie breakfast, I … Read More
BP and DuPont Are Top in First-Ever Ranking of Companies on Climate Change
In the first ever ranking of the Top 100 companies, BP and DuPont have come out as top “leaders” for their climate change strategies. Not surprisingly ExxonMobil is seen as a “laggard”.
Blair’s “Toothless Sop” to Bush On Climate
Tony Blair has been accused of caving in to American pressure by proposing a new “watered-down” replacement for the Kyoto Protocol that relies on new technology rather than binding emission cuts as the solution to climate change.
Climate Change – Have Your Say
Yesterday, The Independent newspaper in the UK did something rather amazing – it asked it’s readers for their views. Rather than giving readers the usual dose of opinion from the great and the good, the paper asked for the opinion of its readers. And they asked it on the most pressing issue of all: Climate … Read More