Authors
-
problogic
- The Pumpkins return with a “Smashing” good record
- City/town names in USA/Canada that end with matching letters
- The High Desert bursts forth in a symphony of colors
- Scaling peaks of stone despite achy bones: A memoir and and an aspiration
- Ten favorite and least favorite state capital cities
- Los destinos divinos de Latinoamérica: Ciudades con nombres religiosos más allá de San/o, o Santa/o [Latin America’s divine destinations: Cities with religious names beyond San/o, or Santa/o]
- Ten dreamy planning lessons from cruising Michigan’s Woodward Corridor
- Cities and towns on the go –> Go –> GO!
- Twelve planning lessons from the Interstate Highway System
- Tallest & most prominent volcanic plugs/necks in the USA
-
Tag Archives: oil
The Great Lakes doomsday scenario pipeline
If you thought the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota was bad, boy do we have a doozy of one for you here in Michigan. A 63-year old submerged twin pipeline (Enbridge #5), that was built with a 50-year lifespan … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, civics, climate change, energy, environment, geography, health, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, logistics, nature, politics, pollution, product design, rivers/watersheds, tourism, transportation, Travel
Tagged Enbridge, Great Lakes, lakes, oil, pipelines, pollution, water pollution
6 Comments
Kudos to the kayak protesters of Seattle!
What an absolutely amazing photograph of the last weekend’s kayak protests in Seattle over Royal Dutch/Shell’s plan to begin Arctic Ocean oil drilling. If you cannot see or read the signs they say “Shell no.” While some have already argued that the activists … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Cars, cities, civics, civility, climate change, Communications, consumerism, culture, energy, environment, globalization, history, humanity, nature, peace, politics, pollution, Renewable Energy, Science, social equity, sustainability, technology, transportation, volunteerism, Wildlife
Tagged activists, advocacy, Arctic Ocean, cities, climate change, environment, global warming, kayaks, nature, oil, oil drilling, petroleum, pollution, protests, Seattle, Shell
1 Comment
Earth acne creep across boreal Alberta
Here are two satellite views of the expanding Earth acne in the tar sands region of Alberta. The photo on the right is the most recent photo and shows mining has spread across the Athabasca River. Below this comparison is … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Canada, climate change, economic development, energy, environment, geography, Geology, land use, Mining, nature, North America, planning, pollution, Renewable Energy, sustainability
Tagged Alberta, Canada, Earth, ecology, environment, extraction, geography, geology, mining, oil, pollution, tar sands
2 Comments
Stop toying with AMTRAK funding, dammit!
I am so sick and tired of the conservative element in Congress annually trying to defund all or part of AMTRAK. Who are these fools? AMTRAK is regularly setting records for ridership and they want to reduce funding – approximately … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, air travel, aviation, bicycling, Bus transportation, Cars, civics, climate change, commerce, Communications, culture, energy, environment, geography, infrastructure, land use, Passenger rail, placemaking, planning, pollution, spatial design, States, Statistics, sustainability, technology, tourism, transit, transportation, Travel, walking
Tagged AMTRAK, cars, Congress, oil, railroads, transit, transportation, travel
11 Comments
Now is NOT the time to relent – fossil fuels are still fossil fuels
Given the ongoing North American oil production boom, there will no doubt be a tendency by those without any foresight (and in Big Oil) to push for scaling back incentives for clean, renewable energy resources like wind and solar; funding … Continue reading
Posted in Active transportation, Advocacy, Alternative energy, bicycling, Cars, cities, civics, climate change, commerce, consumerism, culture, economic development, Economy, education, energy, entrepreneurship, environment, EVs and hybrids, government, health, history, humanity, infrastructure, land use, nature, planning, politics, pollution, psychology, Renewable Energy, spatial design, sustainability, technology, transportation, urban planning
Tagged alternative energy, biomass, editorial, energy, environment, history, oil, opinion, politics, pollution, solar, wind
1 Comment
A proper salute to big oil – NSFW
The iconic photograph of Johnny Cash (see below) is what I feel like doing each time I pass a gas station which is owned or operated by a big oil company in my new 2013 Ford C-Max hybrid. With an estimated … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative energy, Cars, civics, climate change, commerce, Communications, consumerism, culture, energy, environment, fun, infrastructure, pictures, politics, product design, sustainability, transportation
Tagged automobiles, big oil, cars, environment, EV, Ford C-Max, fun, hybrid cars, Johnny Cash, oil, transportation
3 Comments
When did ending subsides for big oil start being called a tax increase?
A month or two ago I wrote my Congressman, Republican Mike Rogers about ending subsidies for oil and gas companies. Today, I received a response in the mail. His letter was very cordial and polite, but the logic of his … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative energy, civics, civility, Climate Change, Communications, deregulation, economics, Economy, Environment, government, politics, pollution, Renewable Energy, Trade, Transportation, writing
Tagged Congress, environment, logic, oil, politics, subsides, Taxes
5 Comments
A’int it da’ truth
Posted in Alternative energy, Cars, civility, Climate Change, deregulation, economics, education, Environment, politics, pollution, Renewable Energy, Taxes
Tagged big oil, energy, oil, pollution
Leave a comment
We have so much energy in US
Why in heaven’s name are we still sending our sons and daughters halfway around the planet to die for oil? There are so many existing and emerging energy options available that is total folly to keep following the fallacies of … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative energy, economics, Environment, politics
Tagged Afghanistan, alternative energy, big oil, oil, solar, wind
2 Comments
Panethos 