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today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
If you have been horrified by the oil spill, but only slightly less horrified by the idea of mopping up oil with booms made of human and animal...

Kyle Berner always loved flip-flops. Three years ago, during the New Orleanian's stint teaching English in Thailand, he stumbled upon a pair of...

A money-raising art project is using oil collected from the BP oil spill to create posters that will help fund the relief.
Who knows? But people think it helps their health, and they're taking a lot of it. But, turns out it can be really bad for the environment,...
A recent Grist article discusses the issue of offshore drilling as a byproduct of U.S. aspirations for energy independence. Since oil reserves in...

Watch these Tea Party activists spit in their gift horse's mouth.

A new Facebook app will allow users to monitor, share, and compare information about their energy use.
Yup. Pick your price. Pay what you want: a dollar or more. It all goes to charity. And you get GOOD for a year (a subscription was $20...
Dutch architecture firm i29's wire furniture designs might make it easier for students with ADD to concentrate.

A high school in Brooklyn denied students the right to use all but one restroom.

With a new climate treaty years away, the world will need green technology to help stop climate change.
If Fox News started a gas station, it'd probably be this one - Terror-Free Oil. Yes, this really exists, and yes, they sell freedom fries.
A short history of black gold, from the ancient Persian army's flaming oil-dipped arrows to today's piercing pain at the pump.
By 2015, Mercedes' entire line of cars will run on alternative fuels. Can you imagine what would happen if the companies that make affordable cars...
Last-minute regulations cement Bush's dirty legacy Despite a backdrop of two wars and a crumbling economy that desperately needs attention, the...
The folks at the excellent energy blog The Oil Drum are calling it: peak oil happened in mid-2008 at 81.73 million barrels per day. That means...
Crude Blogging We're running out of oil, but search for the phrase "peak oil" on the websites of 31 major U.S. newspapers, and you'll get a...
In a recent post, Ben Jervey talked about the fearsome possibility that a hurricane might pass over the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico and...
Esquire has a modest gallery of art created as commentary on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Included are Jane Fulton Alt's "Crude Awakening"...
There's an arresting image about a third of the way into Joe Berlinger's new documentary, Crude, that sees a young Ecuadorian boy holding two...
