Link drop: Bears, billionaires, and British Petroleum
Fiat offers loaner bikes to drivers in need, the Atlantic Ocean gets its own garbage patch, and researchers find a massive oil plume lurking beneath the Gulf of Mexico.
Thu, Aug 26 2010 at 4:21 PM EST
Photo: Alan Vernon/Flickr Happy almost-weekend!
Here are some good links you should be reading.
• Don't be fooled by BP's PR department (aka the U.S. government), there's still a lot of oil left in the gulf. One plume has been found that's over 20 miles long
• Not wanting to feel left out, the Atlantic ocean went and got itself its own garbage patch.
• The New York Times recently spent 36 hours here in Portland, Maine.
• Meet the two billionaire brotherswaging a secret war against Obama, liberals, and the environment.
• People are not happy about a UN report letting Shell of the hook for decades of oil spills in the Niger delta.
• Fiat is offering electric bikes as loaner vehicles when people bring in their cars for repair.
• A dumpster diving bear interrupted a man taking out the trash in my hometown of North Conway, NH.
• Someone in Portland, Oregon is painting Mario Kart icons all over local bike lanes.
• How do you take a country as large as Australia to 100% renewable energy in a decade? One plan lays it all out.
• If only...
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