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Greenius Says No to Offshore Drilling. Mr. President, You Are Following A Failed Strategy & Wasting Time

Creative Greenius

In August 2009 a state-of-the-art rig using “new technology&# spilled 2000 barrels of oil a day for 10 weeks into the fragile East Timor Sea. New technologies will prevent oil spills. Try telling the Australians that. Offshore drilling is good for the economy and will create jobs! Our beaches are economic engines.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

Green Car Congress

This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. The assumption from past research has been that cities of all sizes will eventually decline in density, with greater amounts of urban expansion than population growth.

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