What We're Talking About Thursday, July 29, 2010
101 Days of Oil:
Guilty Planet in the Gulf
Yesterday marked 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded and triggered one of the worst environmental disasters in US history. A lot has changed even in the past week; a containment cap has stemmed the gush of oil enough to begin relief well drilling, and BP announced the resignation of its chief executive, Tony Hayward, an act symbolic of its desire to move public perception beyond the spill and into cleanup efforts. That's a tall order, especially for Gulf residents whose lives have been turned upside down and wear their animosity toward the company with pride. Jennifer Jacquet of Guilty Planet is on the scene, speaking to people and documenting grassroots (swamproots?) efforts to map and document the spill as it slimes its way up into Louisianian bayous.
Voices from the Spill
Guilty PlanetJuly 28, 2010
"In a humble effort at citizen journalism, we went around New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf asking people what they thought of the BP oil spill. Most of victims don't have voices, but here is what a few of the humans thought (they wrote down their opinions or, on occasion, dictated it to us)."
Do People Hate BP?
Guilty PlanetJuly 20, 2010
"Do people hate BP? Yes. Does it matter? It must. Most CEOs believe that corporate brand reputation outranks financial performance as the most important measure of a company's success."
Balloon on the Bayou: Grassroots Mapping in Bay Baptiste
Guilty PlanetJuly 13, 2010
"'The bucketheads are here,' Jeff Holmes radioed back to his camp in Grand Bayou Village, a totally bizarre and charming outcropping of homes built on salt marshes that Holmes is worried will disintegrate under a thin but suffocating blanket of oil that is creeping up the bayou."
Video
Dave Ng talks about education and the developing trading card game called Phylo. You can contribute your artistic and scientific expertise to Phylo's ecology at phylogame.org.
Book Club
Mark Pendergrast wraps up the Book Club discussion and shares three interesting excerpts from Inside the Outbreaks.
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“Tony Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum, is headed for the exit -- with a $20 million golden parachute to guide him safely and luxuriously to the ground. The wages of sin may be death, as the Bible says, but reckless environmental destruction clearly pays much better.”
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