See how big oil spill is compared to where you live
Yesterday I was on a Sustainable Atlanta Roundtable panel addressing: The Death of Environmental Journalism?
We all agree that the mainstream media has fewer resources to cover the environment, but were not sure if the independent sites could eventually do enough to fill or exceed the void. Here are three sites I showed that represented non-traditional media information.
Let’s start with If It Was My Home You can see what the spill looks like overlaid where you live. Here it is over Georgia: IfItWasMyHome.com – Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster.
There are the BP PR spoofs. Kind of a Jon Stewart like truth-telling, BP pushback via Twitter. BPGlobalPRhas 127,000 followers so it is working. Here are two recent examples:
Safety is our primary concern. Well, profits, then safety. Oh, no- profits, image, then safety, but still- it’s right up there.
and:
This weekend only! Come to bp to top off your tank and we will top off your tummy with some free $10 blackened shrimp! #bpcares
Finally for wonks: Updates from the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (JIC) on Unified Command response efforts to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
