Latest Casualty of the BP Spill: Strip Clubs
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Lest you think the economic damage from the BP spill be limited to the seafood trade, tourism, and such industries directly dependent on an un-oiled Gulf of Mexico, we turn to one of the more unlikely institutions that’s seen its business dry up in the wake of the disaster: Strip clubs. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
What If We Abolished Income Taxes & Replaced Them With ‘Stuff Taxes’?
photo: Alan Cleaver via flickr
Over at Green Biz there’s an interesting article that proposes a way to address the environmental impact of the goods we buy, as well as realign our tax code to stop penalizing the very thing we want to encourage. What if we abolished income tax for just about every single person and made up the revenue with…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Scotland Considers Shipping Water to Drought-Stricken England
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Despite the overall impression that England is a rainy place, there are areas in with drought is taking its toll. The country already imports around two-thirds of its water in the form of products, but it may one day start importing water more directly from its neighbor to the north – at least, that’s the possibility according to Mike Cantlay, the convenor of Loch Lomond national park and chairman of the tourism ag…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Is the Gulf Oil Spill Already Impacting Tourism in New Orleans? (Video)
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Tourism is an extremely important industry to Louisiana, and to New Orleans in particular. The world famous city looked to have finally regained its footing as a tourist destination after the five long years since Hurricane Katrina. Now, many wonder whether another major blow is being dealt to the state’s still-fragile economy, from the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. To get an idea of how the spill was impacting the city thus far, I headed into the French Quarter on Saturday…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Raj Patel on The Value of Nothing
Raj Patel is one of the few people who has both worked at the World Bank, and been tear gassed protesting against it. An activist scholar, and author of Stuffed and Starved, Patel argues that markets are a beautiful thing, but that modern capitalism has gotten it all wrong. Patel’s new book, The Value of Nothing, aims to explain why Wall Street salaries rocket ever-skyward while 60 million Americans went hungry over Christmas. P…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Gulf Oil Spill Grinds Local Seafood Business to a Halt (Video)
As the effort to cleanup the still-growing oil spill continues, many fishermen who can no longer fish are being employed in the short term by BP. For the time being, helping position oil-absorbent boom and skimming the waters, they have a me…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Let’s Return to the Original Green: Moving From a Consuming Economy to a Conserving Economy
The following is a guest post by Steve Mouzon, green architect and owner of Mouzon Design in Miami Beach, Florida.
I’m an architect by trade, although I now spend more time writing and speaking. Looking back over my profession’s bumps and starts these past forty years, it’s easy to be depressed. I was ten years old at the first Earth Day. My mother opened her health food store shortly thereafter, and in the years that followed, she brought in a long series of lecturers discussing the mo…Read the full story on TreeHugger
How Will Supply and Demand Effect Peak Oil?
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From IEA whistle-blowers to the US military warning of peak oil in a few years, there’s plenty of reason to question the sustainability of our energy intensive ways. But when I wrote about the Dark Mountain Projects’ rejection of enviro…Read the full story on TreeHugger
More Expensive Water? Experts Say a Price Hike Is a Must
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Water is one of the most undervalued resources we have. Especially in the developed world, we pay a fraction of the true cost of water in order to have the required resource run from our taps. But really, a barrel of water is more valuable than a barrel of oil at any price, and we’re going to see that reality first hand. To ease the inevitable pain and slow our consumption of water to more reasonable levels, experts say that we need…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Why You’ve Never Seen an Ad for Broccoli
A great ad from the Foodbank NYC. Not for broccoli.
In the wake of the fried chicken and bacon-y beast that is the Double Down, we now know that a grossly unhealthy product can be successfully marketed to the masses on strength of novelty alone. And it makes you consider the converse–why is marketing for healthy foods like fruit and produce nearly nonexistent? How come you’ve never se…Read the full story on TreeHugger
