Comments on: Things you can do about the oil spill

By: Powerlessness - just one anna

Powerlessness - just one anna — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:34:37 +0000

[...] And there’s very little I can do. [...]

By: lisa

lisa — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 18:01:22 +0000

thank you so much for this!

I wrote President Obama. both of my Senators and my local congressman.
Off to write Joe Biden & Hillary Clinton now.

By: Cherie

Cherie — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:28:47 +0000

Feel free to crosspost/repost/whatever. I compiled the info in an attempt to be helpful, not to hoard the info :)

By: Elena Perez

Elena Perez — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:27:12 +0000

Cherie,

I’m a friend of Ellen Milne’s, and I’d love it if you would give me permission to repost this (with full credit to you, and a link, of course) on the California NOW blog. This is the most complete list I’ve seen of things people can actually do to help.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:22:36 +0000

This is an excellent information resource, thank you for posting.

By: Gail

Gail — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:12:46 +0000

People are oblivious to what is actually happening here.They are more into the Stanley Cup than the life of this planet.This is destroying the ecosystem and it will affect every living life form on this planet.You have chunks of plastic floating in the ocean the size of Texas and now you oil running as far as Florida.You need to get your priorities straight.Sorry but President Obama should have been on the scene the minute this happened.Tony Hayward is acting as if he spilt milk.You can fly to the moon but you can’t stop this oil that is destroying this planet.Greed is what is destroying this planet and you think he be concerned considering he lives on Earth as well.No,he just wants to get on with his life.DIGUSTING!

By: Jadielady

Jadielady — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 23:01:58 +0000

Now that I’m home and on my laptop (and not just my phone) here’s the link I tried to tweet but am pretty sure I got wrong.
http://ecoheroes.me/

By: Amy Bliss

Amy Bliss — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:35:22 +0000

I agree that the boycott will not generally help more than it will hurt. The small businesses who are already struggling could be put in further trouble because of a boycott when they have nothing to do with the oil spill. Boycott BP in the form of stock sell offs, etc. But don’t hurt the little guy in the already struggling economy.

Write senators, do what you can to donate time, money, hair, etc…

By: Edith

Edith — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 20:06:33 +0000

I don’t believe in the boycott. BP management sucks, but they employ a lot of little people who have no say in how the company is run. Boycotting BP will hurt them, too. I once worked for a large company which was tainted by ethical issues. A very small group was unethical, not the whole company. Yet because I worked for the company, I was also considered a cheat and liar.

What totally pisses me off is that the EPA did not investigate this from day one (I think they’re still not investigating). They have the mandate, the authority under the Clean Water Act. AFAIK no subpoenas have been issued. All we have is Eric Holder grandstanding a MONTH after the leakage. There is political hanky panky going on behind the scenes to cover for BP. Sadly, Obama is almost as bad as Bush.

Also, if you want to know who’s responsible for the spill, look in the mirror. Per capita, Americans are in the top 10 in electricity consumption as well as total energy consumption. I see only handful of people using cloth bags. It is rare to see anyone biking or walking anywhere. I see so much perfectly good stuff thrown in the trash, even recyclables, and the manufacture of all of it involves petroleum (excellent list – thanks for linking).

By: Zekenix

Zekenix — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 12:38:14 +0000

Oil Spill upsetting you? Tell Tony Directly: Dr A.B Hayward, Rumshott Manor, Underriver, Sevenoaks, TN15 0RX — Tel: (01732) 463692