How to Help the Oil Spill
If you’re like us, you’re desperate to help the animals and people effected by the BP Oil Spill.
But aside from boycotting BP gas stations (which NYLON TV’s Jay points out hurts individual franchise owners more than the company), you may feel kind of hopeless.
Our friends at GOOD Magazine suggest sending scientists a water sample from a beach or marsh near you.
MSNBC has a list of proactive things to do, from where to make donations to how to report hurt or injured wildlife.
And TakePart.com has a list of charities working directly with the effected areas and animals.
(One thing you shouldn’t do – fly down to the gulf, show up on a beach, and start scrubbing birds. Besides growing the nation’s carbon footprint, you may actually be hurting the animals and yourself – hired volunteers have to go through Haz Mat and veterinary training before they’re even allowed near the water).
Of course, the stuff you’re doing every day – recycling, eating locally grown produce and meat, and trying hard to buy vintage or organic clothes instead of factory-made ones – helps too.
June 4th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
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June 4th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Actually franchise and independently owned BP locations have to pay BP to “fly” the BP flag at their locations. Along with purchasing their fuel from BP. So franchise and independently owned establishments that have BP fuel do have other choices of who they buy their fuel from. I personally will not be purchasing fuel from any location that chooses to sell BP fuel.
As BP still profits from those locations.
June 4th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
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June 4th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Thank you Nylon for posting this – its such a sad situation
Our planet is being destroyed! Please help!
June 8th, 2010 at 2:40 am
In response to Cherie….Actually alot of franchise owners do not own the land or the building so even if there gas station was once a mobile etc, if there land owner / oil dealer decides to turn his building into BP the renter/acting owner must run the buisnes sunder BP name example: APEC owns hundreds of gas stations and dictates to it’s dealers whom rent the properties which franchise they will be opperating under. So no they do not ALWAYS get the choice.
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July 9th, 2010 at 2:04 am
I am heart broken about the millions of innocent creatures being affected and the fact that this oil is still gushing, but I really want to encourage people not to boycott BP. They are the ones responsible and if they go bankrupt because of this, who will then pay the bill. My first and foremost concern is that this disaster is handled and that the damage is minimized. At the moment, BP are the ones we need to foot the bill. I think we can all do our part to reduce our use of petroleum products, gas and oil. I think that working together is the only way.
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July 20th, 2010 at 2:08 pm
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July 20th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Is Gulf seafood fit to eat? After looking at the wildlife pictures, I wouldn’t eat it. And, of course, Obama couldn’t be bothered to take his vacation in the Gulf….not fancy enough.
July 20th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
It’s so sad to see the suffering of innocent animals for the greed of a stupid oil company. It breaks my heart.
July 21st, 2010 at 7:24 pm
The Bp disaster really makes me sad. All of those poor animals that were not atfault for this at all. They are the ones that have to deal with it.
July 21st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I wonder when they will come to their senses and stop with all the oil. Alternate know-how has already been there to replace it!
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July 23rd, 2010 at 1:09 am
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January 20th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
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July 1st, 2011 at 4:54 pm
I heard recently that the cap they used to stop up the leak is leaking and a huge amount of oil is still being released into the ocean. very bad news for all of mankind.