What’s the buzz on the latest issues in the Green Community? Check out what you may have missed this last week:
Addicted to oil: The high costs of drilling – Will we fight to the bitter end over these finite resources as we are currently doing in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or will we wake up, evolve, grow a new consciousness and achieve something so magnificent that it will be a transcendental moment for humanity?
EPA launches Gulf oil spill website with up-to-date information – With the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico quickly becoming the worst oil disaster in the U.S. (set to surpass the Exxon Valdez spill), the EPA has set up a website providing breaking updates, photos and online resources for those living in the affected areas.
– The environmentally catastrophic month of April ended with one bright spot: The approval of the long embattled Cape Wind offshore wind farm near Cape Cod, Massachusetts — America’s first offshore wind farm.
Tampa Bay agencies publish pro-drilling message touting safety of offshore drilling – Recent issues of Bay Soundings: Tampa Bay's Science and Nature News Journal include lengthy messages promoting oil drilling off Florida’s coasts and touting the safety of offshore drilling. The Soundings — funded by public agencies directed by local elected officials — has not printed any perspective from anyone opposed to offshore drilling. Meanwhile, the public agencies behind the Bay Soundings pretend they are not taking any position for or against offshore drilling.
The Transition Movement and growing a Transition Town in Tampa Bay – It is one of several grass-roots movements cropping up in response to the global situation. Within this turmoil, there is opportunity, an opportunity the Transition Movement hopes to seize, creating a better future during a turbulent time.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2010.