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Showing videos filed under: petroleum
Naomi Klein: The Search for BP's Oil
January 26, 2011As we've noted before, the oil from BP's spill in the Gulf didn't just magically disappear. Naomi Klein and Big Noise Films' Jacqui Soohen headed to the Gulf aboard the research vessel Weatherbird II, they found plenty of evidence of the damage still being done. It's not just the birds and dolphins we have to worry about, the scientists note in this report from our friends at the Nation.Biko Baker, Jane Hamsher, Naomi Klein & State of the Union
January 25, 2011Barack Obama isn't the only one giving a talk tonight--the League of Young Voters will be bringing together some top thinkers, activists, and artists to have a live conversation streaming on the Web, as well as on Twitter and Facebook. "We have to keep going deeper," notes Biko Baker, the League's executive director, "We have to step up and be a lot stronger on jobs."Europe Under the Crunch, Donna Edwards, Latching On, & Monique Harden
July 30, 2010We've heard plenty about the recession in the U.S., but what about the rest of the world? Countries across Europe have faced budget crunches and conservative governments are using the crisis as an excuse to roll back the social safety net that most have enjoyed for decades.Monique Harden: Rights-Based Recovery in the Gulf
July 30, 2010What if Kenneth Feinberg resigned tomorrow? That's the real question, when he asserts his sole authority over the funds allocated to the Gulf Coast for oil spill recovery. Monique Harden of Advocates for Environmental Human Rights joins us via Skype to offer her alternate vision for recovery: one based on fundamental human rights.Mark Hertsgaard and Sarah Laskow, Finding Louisiana's Methadone
July 12, 2010Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard reminds us that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict.JoAnn Wypijewski, Louisiana's Methadone, the Houma Nation and Amazon Empire
July 12, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake. Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict. Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices.Brave New Films: Drill, Baby, Drill?
June 22, 2010We heard the rallying cry with its cheap double entendre over and over during election season 2008. "Drill, baby, drill." Now, of course, the results of such a policy are coating the birds, fish, and coasts of the Gulf of Mexico: uncontrollable oil everywhere. Brave New Films is launching a new campaign for Power Without Petroleum, and you can join them on Facebook or on their website.Ben Evans: Your Environmental Road Trip
June 17, 2010In the wake of the BP oil deluge in the Gulf and the Chevron oil spill in Utah, calls for renewable energy and sustainable living have been redoubled, with even President Obama getting into the act. To see what sustainable living can actually look like, Ben Evans, Julie Dingman Evans and Mark Dixon took a road trip across the U.S. in a hybrid car with only a few rules: they created less than one shoebox of garbage each month, never turned on an incandescent light and used approximately 25 gallons of water per person per day.Ed Pilkington, Your Environmental Road Trip & the World Cup
June 16, 2010The BP oil disaster has wreaked havoc on the Gulf of Mexico, but it's also having repercussions across the Atlantic. BP is one of Britain's largest companies, and pension funds invested in BP stock are taking a hit. Ed Pilkington has been covering the story here in the U.S. for the U.K.'s Guardian and has visited the Gulf to look at the spill.David Roberts: Drill, Baby, Drill
April 2, 2010The announcement this week that Barack Obama would open up space along the Atlantic coast for offshore oil drilling wasn't a cruel April Fool's joke, sadly. The president who pledged not to "drill, baby, drill" our way out of energy and climate issues seems to be going back on his word.
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