Wacko Watch


Seven Years of Drilling For 47 Days Of Oil?

Seven years of drilling for 47 days worth of oil???????
On the Sierra Club’s “Stop Giveaways to Big Oil” page they request that readers send a message to congress. What follows is selected portions of their model letter.
 
               “It is estimated that drilling off of Florida’s coast would only bring 47
               days of oil and 4 [...]

A Different Kind Of Green Fee

From a Wall Street Journal, Small Business section article by Kelly Spors, we learn that at least one business in San Francisco is adding an energy surcharge to client invoices. This fee is used to purchase renewable energy credits.

Second Annual Earth Hour

Earth Hour is scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. (local time) on March 29, 2008. This will be the Second Annual Earth Hour.

Fund Raising At The Sierra Club

 The Sierra Club’s version of this grizzly story: “But the Bush Administration, at the urging of special interests, has removed the grizzly from the endangered species list - once again making its habitat fair game for oil drilling, development and logging.”

The Common Ground 07 Conference

DIRT-e’s staff is certain that The Georgia Conservancy will not be happy that their upcoming conference is being discussed under the Wacko Watch heading. Why do we do that?

How Many Of Us Still Drink Water From The Tap?

There is a Web site named Off License News, www.offlicensenews.co.uk. It calls itself “the voice of drinks retailing”.

I Can Fly like a Bird in the Sky. Hey, and I Can Buy Anything That Money Can Buy.

I Can Fly like a Bird in the Sky.
Hey, and I Can Buy Anything That Money Can Buy. 
 
 

From the Sierra Club Insider Comes This Article About a “Major Victory for Wild Forests.”

If you recall President Clinton was a very busy man in January of 2001, his last month in office.

Something Smells Rotten in Germany. Is That a Rotten Egg? It’s Not Acid Rain.

Professor Paul Crutzen is a German scientist who won a Nobel Prize for his early 1990’s work on closing the ozone hole in earth’s upper atmosphere. Professor Crutzen has come up with an idea for dealing with “man-made global warming.”

Haven’t You Heard About the Bird? Everybody Knows That the Bird is the Word. Bird, Bird, Bird is the Word.

The Farallone islands are located off the coast of San Francisco. The islands are a nesting ground for large colonies of seabirds. One such bird is the “Tiny Cassin’s Auklet.”