Chasing Clean Air

14th Annual Global Green USA Millennium Awards

Whenever I have opportunity to accompany my friend Mr. Freeman to an environmental affair, golden pixie dust seems to fall before his feet like a perpetual Wizard of Oz, only he's the real deal where politicians, celebrities, and NGO environmental movers-and-shakers roll out the carpet for the green cowboy to walk through. A hug here. Handshake there. Smiles. Jokes. Have a another cocktail? With salmon and caviar? Okay.

How America Can Work Toward An Oil-Free Future

1967 and 1973.

Quick!

What happened? 

Oil embargoes from Arab countries impacted America.

If that weren't enough to spur renewable energy innovation, there's been countless oil spills topped off by BP Oil's worst environmental disaster in U.S. history.

To read innovative ideas to get America off fossil fuels, I recommend S. David Freeman's book Winning Our Energy Independence.

Backstreet Boys Boycott BP Oil

 

The Backstreet Boys join popular hard rock band KORN to boycott the purchase of BP oil.

Currently on a 35+ North American tour in support of their new album, THIS IS US, BSB promises to embark on a BP free tour.

Walmart Goes Green And So Goes Its Suppliers

This is a guest post by Jim Fitzgerald

Wal-Mart Goes Green
The World's First Quintuple Play

Watching baseball's first quadruple play was strange. Seeing Wal-Mart go green
is stranger still.

E-Waste Collections

I'll be in Torrance at American Honda and LADWP's E-Waste Collection Event on Saturday June 19th. I used to paint canvasses and silk scarves (over ten years ago) which means that's old toxic paint and dyes that have a shelf life of up to 10 years. I'll also be bringing an old fax, scanner, and computer. Why don't you gather your toxic e-waste and I'll see you there or check for an event near you.

From America to Papua New Guinea: Demolition of Environmental Initiatives

Follow the money 'round the world as oil and mining industries trump clean air and water by getting in bed with environmental agencies, like in Papua New Guinea and America where greenhouse gas regulations are now on the chopping block thanks to another Alaskan woman.

Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and at least 40 legislators seek to block the EPA’s finding last year that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to public health welfare — a landmark ruling that paves the way for the agency to regulate emissions. 

According to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Murkowski’s resolution is a Big Oil-backed move that would handicap efforts to improve fuel economy, reduce oil consumption and cut greenhouse gas emissions. And I'll add, cut air pollution.