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Blog Entries by Kevin Grandia from 07/2010

Watch out for hydraulic fracturing it might make your hair orange

| Posted 07.02.2010 | Green

When you have lived in the same place for 20 years and all of sudden your hair turns orange after you wash it, you might be more than a little concern...

Obama's July 3rd Weekly Address Fittingly Focuses on Clean Energy

| Posted 07.05.2010 | Green

President Obama used the occasion of his most recent weekly address to announce that the Department of Energy would make a $2 billion investment in two new massive solar energy projects.

Powerhouse Waxman Tells Clinton to Back off Dirty Canada Oil Sand Pipeline

| Posted 07.06.2010 | Green

Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), a senior member of Congress and chair of the powerful Congressional Committee on Energy and Commerce has penned a public let...

Hydraulic Fracturing, Waterworld and the Toxic Avenger

| Posted 07.08.2010 | Green

Who could forget Kevin Costner's best flick of all time, Waterworld. Melting polar ice caps, mutants, resource-wars, it had it all for those into pos...

Hard for Crook to Climb Down on 'Climategate'

| Posted 07.14.2010 | Green

It seems no end of investigations confirming that climategate was a manufactured scandal based more in the land of conspiracy theories than reality will convince the likes of Clive Crook.

If Exposing the Climate Deniers Makes Me a Scumbag, So Be it

| Posted 07.15.2010 | Green

What do you get when you cross a retired weatherman with a wannabe British aristocrat? No wait, that's not it. A retired weatherman and a former pol...

Is an end to oil company welfare a winner for the Dems this Fall?

| Posted 07.19.2010 | Green

I have this cousin who made $45.2 billion the other year and I just found out that he didn't pay any tax to the US government last year. Oh, and he ...

Waxman and Markey's Hydraulic Fracking Smackdown

| Posted 07.19.2010 | Green

Looks like the US Congress is going to crack down on the natural gas industry over the nasty process of hydraulic fracturing.

Think You Know Alberta Canada?

| Posted 07.20.2010 | Green

Thinking of visiting Alberta, Canada? Think again. Take the pledge not to visit Alberta and tell your friends and family to do the same....

The Government Wants To Stop Another TVA Coal Ash Disaster, But Doesn't Want To Hear About It

| Posted 07.22.2010 | Green

Earlier this year the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would put in place rules to ensure the safe disposal of coal ash, the toxic waste leftover after coal is burned to produce electricity.

DiCaprio's Solar Powered Inception (Photos)

| Posted 07.28.2010 | Green

I was taking a quick look at Leonardo DiCaprio's twitter account, when I saw he has posted on Facebook shots of the solar panels that were used to power some of the set for his movie Inception.

What do Sandra Bullock, Lenny Kravitz and Blake Lively have in common?

| Posted 07.28.2010 | Green

UPDATE: Sandra Bullock has issued a statement through her publicist saying that: "Ms. Bullock was originally contacted through her attorney to be a ...