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Potential impact of the oil lost in the Gulf

Published on April 23, 2011 in Video. 0 Comments

Who doesn’t love statistics? To rephrase that, who is the kind of person reading a blog like this that doesn’t love statistics? Here is an excellent video explaining what was lost in the BP oil spill last year, simply by looking at what the oil would have been used for.

I wonder if much/any of it was salvageable – this video doesn’t mention that at all.

Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo.

A year ago, a massive oil spill began in the Gulf. The entire country was glued to the news until the well was capped, and then we forgot about it.

As the year anniversary was fast approaching I became curious, just how much oil was that exactly? Where would it have gone? What I found was shocking.

So in an effort to further our discussion on oil dependency I created this short animation. I’ve spent all of my free time in the last month putting this together to help illustrate just how dependent we truly are on oil.

Designed, animated and written by Chris Harmon

Voice Talent: Kim Estes

Music: Billy Perez & Todd Stambaugh

Special Thanks to Daye Rogers and Christy Kurtz

Sources:

Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/

U.S. Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/html/table_04_23.html

Rubber Manufacturers Association
http://www.rma.org/about_rma/rubber_faqs/

http://www.carbonify.com/carbon-calculator.htm

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/vehiclesandfuels/facts/2010_fotw617.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDPE

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_one_gallon_of_crude_oil_weigh

http://www.icis.com/v2/chemicals/9076455/propylene/uses.html

http://volunteerguide.org/volunteer/fewhours/used-tires.htm

http://earth911.com/recycling/plastic/plastic-bottle-recycling-facts/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

OUC Random Acts of Greenness Video Contest

Published on April 19, 2011 in Video. 0 Comments

Check out oucrandomactsofgreenness.com, a mouthful of a URL, but a contest by the local power company where I live to put their customers’ videos on Facebook. Submissions open Friday – Earth Day.

This wasn’t obvious at first – what does the contest get you? Apparently, the winner will be a future TV commercial for OUC. Get out those cameras and start submitting!

Portable Farms

Published on October 28, 2010 in Video. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

I recently came across a show on YouTube called the Next 500. According to their site, it “takes you inside the most innovative and captivating companies set to one day emerge as Fortune 500 powerhouses.” This episode was about a former executive coach who turned his gardening and fish-raising hobby into a business that produces sustainable farming supplies.

Colle Davis, the inventor of Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems, majored in the field of Renewable Natural Resources in 1972, at the University of California at Davis, and he’s been refining Portable Farms™ Aquaponics Systems for the past 37 years.

After a career as a successful entrepreneur, businessman and consultant, Colle has always made the time to continue his research to reduce the chronic problems of tank sediment, and he discovered a new pumping system that solved all the clogging problems in the fish tank and made it possible for the system to automatically remove the sediments from the fish tank without clogging the pump to grow healthier fish and vegetables. This new system made it possible to fully automate the farm using his own unique engineering, so that anyone, anywhere, could raise their own food.