The writings of David Helvarg
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Offshore drilling — the Keystone pipeline of the sea
Read more: Offshore drilling — the Keystone pipeline of the seaWhile half a million people marched in New York and across the nation for climate action this fall and the U.S. launched a new air war in the oil-rich Middle East, President Obama moved forward on one of his least noted but potentially highest impact energy decisions. Beginning this past summer the Department of Interior…
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Can Chevron Buy Back My City on November 4?
Read more: Can Chevron Buy Back My City on November 4?If the Supreme Court is right that corporations are people I need to take out a restraining order on Chevron. To date this oil company has pumped $3 million into the November 4 municipal election in Richmond, California, the low-income multiracial town of just over 100,000 where I live. It’s spending well over 10 times…
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Read more: untitled post 12906Put your hand up please if you think it’s hard to raise money. One reason it’s hard is that we don’t like to beg for things. We don’t like being subservient and submissive. A key message I want to convey to you this afternoon is that you are NOT begging. You are giving donors the…
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It’s no surprise we can’t find Flight 370
Read more: It’s no surprise we can’t find Flight 370Jet aircraft are large, but not compared with the ocean. The weeks-long search for some physical sign of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is not something we should wonder at, considering the frontier nature of our blue planet. The 29% of our planet that is land is inhabited by more than 7 billion of our species,…
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John Kerry, Prince Charles and The Economist’s Ocean Davos
Read more: John Kerry, Prince Charles and The Economist’s Ocean Davosby David Helvarg March 7th, 2014 “The Economist World Ocean Summit” in Half Moon Bay California at the end of February drew hundreds of attendees. A mix of global leaders, ocean luminaries, philanthropists, billionaires, the National Geographic Society and varied salt-water special interests ranging from shipping to BP, Chevron and Shell paid $2,000 or more…
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