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Deepwater Horizon: The Cost of Greenality
In our book we talk about the Cost of Greenality. Like the Cost of Quality, with which Project Managers should be familiar, it speaks to the idea that money spent up front to prevent problems and to...
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Deepwater Spill has Climate Bill in Deep Weeds — UPDATED 20-May: SpillCam
You’d think that the environmental protection or “Climate Bill” might be shored up (excuse the terrible pun) by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which will likely overtake the Exxon Valdez as the...
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A crude solution
“A Workaround is a solution to an unanticipated problem. Not to be confused with a contingency, or backup plan, which is conceived in advance, a workaround is a far less elegant solution to the...
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Can you learn from lessons past? You bet your BP you can!
We want you to start here by watching the video below: Now you may not have the same political views of the commentator, but you have to admit that the Ixtoc spill and its solutions sound strikingly...
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Green Project Management and the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill
A joint post from EarthPM and TenStep: There are many examples of projects undertaken to produce some deliverable with environmental implications. In fact, one may assert that in fact, any project,...
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Red project management
Note the size of the bulldozers (tiny toy-like yellow things at the bottom) to get a scope of the accident. We’ve of course focused here at EarthPM on “green” or sustainable project management. Well,...
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Coverage of today’s National Oil Spill Commission
We’ve blogged about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill which seems to have found its way OUT of the news recently. There is some interesting coverage of the Commission which is investigating what...
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BP Oil Spill – One Year Later
There are lots of things we could talk about one year later, but for this post we’d like to focus on the suit filed today by BP against Transocean, the rig’s owners, and Cameron International, the...
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Lessons Learned to Lessons Burned
It’s now just two years since the Deepwater Horizon incident. Many people seem to forget it. After all, we see the smiling faces of the folks from the tourist industry in Alabama, Mississippi,...
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Is every day earth day?
We were just wondering – if today is Earth day, what are the other 364 days? We don’t make a huge deal of the day for that reason – even though we put the planet’s name in our company identity. Today,...
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