Guilt-free at Jubilee

Okay, we didn’t research every darned page before we picked a server/host company for this site. We were duly impressed with the feature set and ease of use that our new host, Squarespace, offers. They do hosting a bit differently. But today I was looking around their company pages and it seems they are, at least according to the literature, in line with some of the aims of our organization. It seems our website is wind powered. Nice. You can see by that last link that they are giving it a noble try at being green.

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Deepwater Horizon: The Worst-Case, Best-case, and Most-Likely Scenarios

Reports from the Gulf of Mexico just keep getting worse. Estimates of the rate of oil spillage from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continue gushing (the latest official number: up to 60,000 barrels per day, with BP now saying the maximum potential leakage rate could be 100,000 b/d). Forecasts for how long it will take before the leak is finally plugged are pluming toward August—maybe even December. In addition to the oil itself, BP has (in this case deliberately) spilled a million gallons of toxic Corexit dispersant. Biologists’ accounts of the devastation being wreaked on fish, birds, amphibians, turtles, coral reefs, and marshes grow more apocalyptic by the day—especially in view of the fact that the vast majority of animal victims die alone and uncounted.

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