EarthFirst Blog Week in Review April 7-11

It’s okay to stare. We love the attention. And we KNOW you noticed our sexy new look. Now wipe up that drool pool on your desk and read us for our articles. We have some great stuff for you this week like a hockeyplaying bear, a video visit to that huge mass of plastic trash out in the pacific we’ve been talking so much about, and defrosting disease-ridden dead people! So, if for any odd reason you’ve been able to take your eyes off us at any time during the past few days, take a peek at our stuff again just for fun.

• Confessions of A Greenwasher: Like an AA Meeting, but with More Guilt
• Gather ‘Round the Festivus Pole, George Costanza’s Getting on the Green Team!
• Bored Japanese Guy + Recycled Chopsticks = Awesome Green Canoe
• Disease Infected Corpses Popping Up Through the Tundra, Courtesy of Global Warming
• Seattle Moves to Tear Down the Squirrelman’s Beautiful Waterfront Treehouse
• Common Sense Breaks Out: Car Buyers Dump Their SUVs for the Smallest Cars
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• Calculate your Carbon Footprint the Easy Way
• Watch Al Gore’s Awesomely Updated Slideshow from TED: The Urgency of Manbearpig
• Because You Can Train Bears to Do Just About Anything: The Hockey Edition
• Brilliant! Drought-Stricken Florida Gives Nestle Unlimited Water for $230
• It’s Mind Blowing Time: VBS.TV Visits the Garbage Filled Pacific Ocean Gyre
• Home Refrigeration 2.0- The Oceania Refrigerator Brings The Sexy Green Noise
• Axis of Corporate Evil: Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, and the NRA Hired Black Ops Private Security Team to Spy on Green Activists

Gut Buster of the Week: Lindsey Graham Says John McCain Has Done More Than Al Gore for the Environment

 

Michael said it best over at Ecorazzi when he said “Let loose the dogs of absurdity!” upon hearing that Lindsey Graham said that John McCain has done more for the environment than Al Gore. Here’s the exact quote:

“Climate change is the road less traveled but he’s traveled it even more than Al Gore,” Graham said. “Al Gore has talked about it and deserves great recognition but he was around here a long time and never introduced a bill.”

John McCain was given a zero by the League of Conservation Voters, is stupidly pro-war, and is known to be an all around douche nozzle. Al Gore, on the other hand, is our god. He is put above and before all in our pantheon of world savers. As Ecorazzi points out that ThinkProgress points out, Gore was wielding his power in Congress back in the 70s before McCain even ran for office, holding hearings on climate change. He successfully fought off Manbearpig, is raising almost a third of a billion dollars for a global warming ad campaign, and is generally the most recognized ‘”green” person on the planet. I forgive Tipper for her assault on porn and free speech back in the day, but other than that Gore is The Man. The good The Man, not the bad The Man keeping us all down. You know?

Bottom line: John McCain is no friend of the environment, Lindsey Graham is a lying and corrupt blowhard, and the GOP is going to lose by 20 points in November. It’s Obama time baby!

Link [Think Progress] via [Ecorazzi]

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