A word cloud of this week's eKos diary intros:
Welcome to the eKos Earthship, your one-stop-shop for green diaries and series.
For lack of time, tonights's Earthship will be abbreviated. We have a few announcements, along with the diary tables and series round-up.
You can also follow us on Twitter!
Tonight's editor: patrickz
Announcements
Action Items
Ask the Coast Guard:
What would you like to ask the federal Unified Command (including
Coast Guard and other government officials) regarding the Gulf oil
disaster? Post a question, or tip the question(s) you like. An answer
may be forthcoming by the time the next eKos Earthship diary is
posted.
From Moveon:
From Wall Street to the Gulf of Mexico, the news lately has been full of disasters caused by big corporations. They're out of control. Unaccountable. And they're getting away with it because they've bought so much influence in Washington.
It's time to take on the corporate lobbyists who have a stranglehold on our democracy. So on Monday at noon, thousands of progressives from MoveOn, AFL-CIO, SEIU, Jobs for Justice and National People's Action are going straight to K Street in Washington, DC to let the corporate lobbyists and their friends in Congress know we've had enough.
Since you don't live in the DC area, you probably think you can't be there. But we've rigged up an awesome virtual "march" web page that will allow you to still make your voice heard—right from your desk. You can join the event live from your computer anytime between 11:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. Click here to RSVP:
- Check out live video and a live blog from the march site.
- Make sure the march's message reaches Washington by letting your senators know we need to end the domination of corporations in Washington, DC.
- Talk to other virtual marchers and share a photo of yourself with your own rally sign.
RSVP to join the march online and add your voice here
Deepwater Response Opportunities to volunteer, including Vessels of Opportunity, technological support, contributing suggestions as well as information on how to report information on incidents relative to the Gulf Crisis
OilSpill'10 an online crowdsourcing system soliciting ideas for solving the BP Oil Crisis
Tomorrow's 7pm Ecojustice diary focucs on inner-conflict within the climate justice movement, as post-Cochabama activists prepare for COP16 this December in Cancun, Mexico. If not Kllimaforum10, then What?
"Singing for the Planet"
If you haven't heard, WarrenS (whose climate letters we sometimes post in the Earthship) has organized a concert to benefit 350.org to be held on Saturday, June 12 at 7:00 pm. The location will be Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA. For more details, check out this diary by WarrenS!
Eco-series line-up:
(All times Eastern!)
Today's eKos diaries:
Author | Diary | Time | Tags |
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Crashing Vor | Oilies | 05/16/10 08:52AM Eastern | Recommended, New Orleans, Louisiana, oil spill, economy |
jamess | Life on the Edge -- Videos of Gulf of Mexico Coral Reefs -- Updated | 05/16/10 11:47AM Eastern | Gulf of Mexico, Coral Reefs, Biodiversity, Species Loss, BP |
carldavidson | Why Creating Green Jobs Is So Tough: 2010 Conference Report | 05/16/10 11:56AM Eastern | Carl Davidson, Green Jobs, Steelworkers, CCDS, Blue-Green Alliance |
leema | The Swarm & the bee whisperer | 05/16/10 12:20PM Eastern | Bees, Swarming, Colony Collapse Disorder, eKos |
norm | Dishonest Flyer in California | 05/16/10 12:59PM Eastern | California, Proposition 16, ekos, Californians Vote Green, dishonest fliers |
innereye | UPDATE: Gas Leak 3000 Times Worse Than Oil - Updated Math | 05/16/10 01:00PM Eastern | Recommended, oilpocalypse, oil leak, gulf of mexico, natural gas |
DWG | What will you say in 25 years about the Gulf disaster? | 05/16/10 01:23PM Eastern | oil, dirty energy, BP, BP spill, Gulf of Mexico |
Milly Watt | ECSTASY Series: Feedback Systems | 05/16/10 02:00PM Eastern | DK Greenroots, electricity, power consumption, energy monitor, ECSTASY |
Gary Norton | BP Claims Success With New Pipe | 05/16/10 02:56PM Eastern | BP, British Petroleum, Gulf Oil Spill, eKos |
Richard Cranium | Nuke the Gusher | 05/16/10 02:59PM Eastern | bp, gulf of mexico, oil, oil gusher, nuclear weapon |
BlueDragon | Dead Pigs in Dead Gulf? | 05/16/10 03:02PM Eastern | Gulf Oil Spill, eKos |
Jed Lewison | BP stonewalls as massive plumes of oil discovered under Gulf | 05/16/10 03:30PM Eastern | BP, Oil, eKos |
wide eyed lib | Free Food: Why Foraging Beats 'Taking Nothing But Photographs' (Updated) | 05/16/10 03:55PM Eastern | Foraging, Botany, Survival Skills, Teaching, Spring |
AnotherAmericanLie | It Has Become A Campy Sci Fi Movie | 05/16/10 04:26PM Eastern | oil plume, oil spill, eKos |
Christian Dem in NC | Administration trying to make BP foot entire bill for oil spill | 05/16/10 05:12PM Eastern | BP, oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, eKos |
Devilstower | The Disaster Disaster | 05/16/10 08:00PM Eastern | disasters, Katrina, media, eKos |
BruceMcF | Sunday Train: Local Electric Transport and the Energy Independence Levy | 05/16/10 08:42PM Eastern | ekos, learning, Brawny Recovery, rail electrification, Living Energy Independence |
Keith Pickering | 60 Minutes: Critical equipment damaged weeks before blowout | 05/16/10 09:39PM Eastern | BP, Transocean, blowout, oilpocalypse, Deepwater Horizon |
rfall | Gulf Oil and African Ivory--Eco News in Black and White | 05/16/10 10:57PM Eastern | Climate change news roundup, climate change, environment, teaching, DKGreenroots |
Yesterday's eKos diaries:
Author | Diary | Time | Tags |
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Ellinorianne | Lily the CA Gray Whale has Died | 05/15/10 12:22AM Eastern | Recommended, Lily, whale, gray whale, ekos |
rfall | BP CEO: We are trying to solve the Gulf's problems | 05/15/10 01:09AM Eastern | BP, British Petroleum, oil spill, snark, eKos |
palantir | Three Cheers for Nature! | 05/15/10 01:30AM Eastern | science, environment, nature, eKos |
Muskegon Critic | Where's the Friggin Green Cavalry? | 05/15/10 03:33AM Eastern | Recommended, west michigan, green jobs, wind power, ekos |
Ellinorianne | World Wide Protest - Free Lolita the Killer Whale Kept in Captivity for 40 Years | 05/15/10 01:30PM Eastern | Lolita, Tilikum, Whales, Dolphins, Killer Whales |
DWG | Did Salazar reform the Minerals Management Service? | 05/15/10 01:32PM Eastern | oil, dirty energy, oil spills, offshore drilling, George W. Bush |
TheRealAlasandra | Is the Oil Spill Destroying the Gulf Coast | 05/15/10 02:59PM Eastern | Mississippi Gulf Coast, oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, eKos, BP |
jamess | Maybe, 'Farming' the Wind and Sun, CAN Work? | 05/15/10 06:40PM Eastern | Clean Energy, Wind Farms, Solar Farms, Renewable Rebates, Alternate Income |
A Siegel | NIMBYite threat to our future ... | 05/15/10 11:01PM Eastern | nimby, wind power, ekos, renewable energy, climate change |
About eKos
The Idea
This project was inspired by the Earth Day @ DKos Blogathon. In case you missed it, we had 31 participating environmental diaries, all of which were linked to in the Mothership. During the event we had several requests for an eco-mothership diary series in the mould of the Earth Day effort.
The Mission
eKos is all about promoting community eco-diaries. Daily Kos already showcases several series, but sometimes the work of dedicated green diarists pass off the recent diary list hardly noticed. Our goal is to make these diaries more accessible. In the process we hope to build community and bring in a broader audience to the exceptional environmental writing here at DK.
How eKos Works
If you want a diary included in the list, please let us know by leaving a comment. We'll do our best to search out green diaries, but are bound to miss a few. For eKos to live up to it's full potential, eco-diarists will need to post a link to the mothership at the end of their diary. This will provide readers with easy access to other recent environmental diaries.
Requirements
eKos is meant to be inclusive, but we will have standards for quality and content of listed diaries. (As long as you don't violate site rules and have a modicum of relevant, original content, you should be fine.)
'eKos' tag
If your diary gets listed, we'll ask you to add the eKos tag to your diary.
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