Photo via the Times Online Public policy expert and Salon writer Robert Reich thinks he should . In a persuasive piece that’s the sort of idea du jour in the green blogosphere, he argues that the Obama administration needs to put BP into a temporary receivership, allowing the federal government to have direct authority over the flailing company. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Should Obama Temporarily Take Over BP?

Photo via Ellesmere FNC Google is a big promoter of green energy, from dreaming up possibilities of their own (like using wave power for data centers ) to investing in and… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Google Offsetting 45,000 Homes Using Carbon Credits Made from Waste

BP CEO Tony Hayward has been working really, really hard lately . And he’s tired of it. He wants his life back. He said so in an interview with Fox News, definitively explaining once and for all why everyone should trust BP to clean up the oil spill as best they can. Which is why fishermen and charter boat captains who’ve lost their livelihoods, volunteer cleanup workers from around the Gulf who are sick at the thought of their beaches getting coated with oil, and environmental groups of every stripe working to protect gravely threatened ecosystems should come together to stop… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP’s CEO: "I’d Like My Life Back" (Video)

Another good video coming out of OnEarth : In this quickie, the Philippe’s tell the story of how their family has live on Louisiana’s Grand Bayou for “centuries upon centuries.” As part of the Atakapa-Ishak tribe, they have relied on this land and water for generations and it’s… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Y’all Ain’t Gonna Be Able To Eat Shrimp Like You Used To & We Ain’t Gonna Be Able to Catch It’ (Video)

photo: Peter Megyeri via flickr In case you’ve been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activities are causing the greatest harm. Many of these reports are jargon-filled and sometimes intimidating if you’re not used to reading them and this one is no different;

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UNEP Report Shows Green Movement Has Its Priorities Straight (More or Less…)

photo via flickr If it’s bad and it’s related to oil, you know Dick Cheney must be involved in some way. This was true from 2000-2008 and it’s just as true today. Cheney’s press secretary during his 2004, Anne Womack-Kolton, has been hired by BP to lead its US media team. Womack-Kolton ran the public affairs team in the Bush Department of Energy and defended Cheney’s secret meetings with oil company executives in 2001. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP’s New Spokesperson Is Former Dick Cheney Aid

Image: NASA , public domain. Contradicting the Findings of Many Scientists It already has been a few weeks since scientists have detected large underwater oil plumes in the Gulf of Mexico, but BP is still denying that they even exist. Maybe they’re saying that in good faith and truly haven’t found them, but let’s also remember that they have an incentive to downplay the scale of the spill beca… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Denies Existence of Giant Underwater Oil Plumes

Image from the Guardian Celebrities buying plots of land to block developments is the new new. Last year people opposed to the third runway at Heathrow Airport bought up a plot in the middle of the runway in an attempt to thwart it. Now opponents to Donald Trump’s golf … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Environmentalists Try to Trump Trump’s Golf Course by Buying Land

photo via ted On Fareed Zakaria’s CNN show, GPS , Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of technology and market forces to cause transformative change at a rapid pace, said that the technology to store energy f… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Bill Gates Says Large Scale Renewable Projects Are Decades Away

All photos by Javier Callegras from CG Architectes Mocoloco shows us the CrossBox by CG Architectes , built from four shipping containers…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Stunning French Shipping Container House (We Think)