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Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

Green Homes Sell!

Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]

Drill Baby Drill!

Will we learn before it is too late? Watch the mess off the Louisiana coast. On April 20th 2010 an oil rig exploded and took 11 work­ers down to the sea floor. Ini­tially it was said that there is no oil spill, then they said about 160,000 l (1,000 bar­rels) of oil spill into the sea […]

Wind To The Rescue

Nan­tucket / Mass­a­chu­setts gets the first US off shore wind-energy farm, and many don’t like it. Ger­many switches on the “Alpha Ven­tus” wind park located in the North Sea, they cel­e­brate it.  And off the coast of Louisiana an oil spill threat­ens nature and the liveli­hood of  fish­er­men and oys­ter farm­ers. What is going on […]

Earth Day

40 years ago the first “Earth Day” was con­ducted. There was an oil spill that fouled Cal­i­forn­ian beaches. The Cuya­hoga River in Cleve­land caught fire, Time mag­a­zine wrote that “a per­son does not drown in the river, but decay”, and smog was a daily occur­rence in many big cities in the US. Con­fronted with these environmental […]