Green News and Opinion on The Huffington Post Casting Oil Upon the Waters: The House Drilling Bills | David Goldston This week, the House could vote on three bills to expand offshore oil and gas drilling. It is remarkable enough that the House would take up such measures before Congress has done a thing to make drilling safer. But what is truly astounding about these bills is that they would actually make the system that governs offshore drilling weaker than it was before the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. This is legislation that should give pause even to the most ardent proponents of offshore drilling. These bills are more than a Big Oil wish list; they are a sort of oil utopia – and they could make sense only in a utopian world in which oil spills could never ever happen, in which there are never conflicts between the oil industry and other economic interests like fishing and tourism, and in which oil companies always take environmental and safety concerns fully into account. So what would the bills actually do? Now think about that. This is replacing oil policy with a kind of oil mania.
Sustainability in Sweden Johan and Franz checking if the bees have a queen. The rain and the bees flying around don’t really appear on this photo, but I can tell you they were everywhere… Photo: Sara Jeswani. “Congratulations, you’ve got bees!” It was the beginning of July and I was sitting on a boat, far away from Stockholm, when my mobile phone beeped. I stared at the text message for several minutes. I was wrong. Honey bees are extremely interesting animals. Reading about the importance of bees and how they are now more and more threatened,I had decided to learn a bit more and joined a beekeeping course in the beginning of this year. Trying the get the loose honey bees out of the car before driving across the city. The thing about bees is that the more you learn about them the more intriguing they get. I would really like to have a beehive, i thought – in a couple of years. Who knows if it would ever have happened, if it wasn’t for this lottery.