+Uncategorized | July 7, 2010

The Oil Spill and the Perils of Losing Trust

By Bryan Walsh

Last week the Coast Guard sent out an announcement to the media: from now on there would be a 20-meter safety zone established around all protective shoreline boom, booming operations and general oil spill response operations taking place in southeast Louisiana. Any ship that comes with 20-meters of the boom could be liable for up [...]

+Technology | June 28, 2010

TED Takes on the Oil Spill

By Bryan Walsh

I’m in Washington DC today to attend the TEDxOilSpill conference. As I wrote in an earlier post, TED is a California-based nonprofits that puts on conferences that connect very smart—and sometimes very wealthy—together to discuss outside the box approaches to global problems. And if there’s one problem that needs some outside the box thinking, it’s [...]