Archive: Jun 2012

The 6 most awesome telephone pole signs

Smart humans lighten up their nabes with funny phone pole signs. Herewith, our favorites from the internet.

What’s really funny: Taking the oil industry’s word on its job creation

If you've seen the video lampooning what counts as a green job, consider this: what does the industry count in its job numbers? They'll never tell.

New York’s roofscape gets climate makeover [VIDEOS]

Witness the evolution of New York City’s billion-square-foot roofscape in the face of climate change.

Morning chance of guilt, followed by afternoon desperation

Here is a happy recap of various depressing articles from the news today.

We’re about to push the Earth over the brink, new study finds

"State shift" doesn't mean moving to Arkansas. It's the alarming phrase a new study uses to describe what goes down when we push the planet past its limits. And it's just around the corner.

Fakey McFakerson: Mini oil rig causes massive booze spill at Shell execs’ party

IMPORTANT UPDATE: This smelled kinda like oil-soaked fish to us (and a lot of the internet), so I called Shell, and a spokesperson told me in no uncertain terms, “I can confirm that this was not a Shell event.” You may still want to watch the video, but view it as a delightful exercise in […]

Pressure Mounts to End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining

This week hundreds of residents from Appalachia and beyond came to Washington, DC, to demand Congress end mountaintop removal coal mining and enforce the Clean Water Act. They talked to their representatives in Congress and the White House, rallied, and made calls to call for and end this destructive practice that has damaged or destroyed […]

World Oceans Day: Don’t mess with them or they’ll mess with you

(They'll mess with you anway, of course.) In the news: California sets aside protected areas; Oregon has an unexpected visitor; the Gulf Coast is warned about the inevitable.

Check out this 100-year-old electric car

Electric cars are a modern new technology, so modern and unproven that many [Republicans] would say they couldn’t possibly be plausible. Except for how they’ve actually been around since the turn of the 20th century. This photo of an electric car charging (above, click to embiggen) is from 1909, and by that point the technology […]