Campaign seeks to offset Gulf spill damage

An organization dedicated to promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency has launched a website that appeals to the current anti-oil sentiment sparked by the ongoing Gulf tragedy.

Called MyGulfAction.com, the website was designed to “allow individuals to reduce their personal use of fossil fuels, calculate the effects of those reductions, and see how their reductions, combined with others from the My Gulf Action community, add up to offset the Gulf oil spill”, says SmartPower, the non-profit behind the project.

Each commitment to reduce oil use will be added to other reductions on the site’s homepage, showing how many gallons of leaking oil have been offset by the MyGulfAction.com community.

The campaign is a partnership with several leading environmental groups, including 350.org, Waterkeeper Alliance and Save Our Gulf, League of Conservation Voters, Clean Water Action, Center for Resource Solutions and Gulf Future, a joint initiative of the Gulf Coast Fund and Gulf Restoration Network.

The website is available for free to anyone. Users are kept informed of the latest news on Twitter and Facebook.

What the Gulf catastrophe illustrates graphically is that our dependence on fossil fuels and increasingly risky offshore drilling operations has become a very dangerous business.

“It’s time for Americans to take action – not just throw up our hands and look to President Obama, the Coast Guard and BP,” said Brian F. Keane, President of SmartPower. “With My Gulf Action, everyone can channel our collective frustration into positive change and set our nation and the world on a dramatically sounder course.”
 
For more information, please visit www.smartpower.org.

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