Best of the web – 4 June 2010

The new Sex and the City film may have been universally panned (one friend said it was so dumb, her brain cells gave up the will to live while watching it), but it turns out that you could learn something from watching Carrie and her crew.

According to one critic, Carrie Bradshaw is "a green role model extraordinaire", which seems a bit strange given she is also the past decade's most high-profile symbol of conspicious consumption. Apparently, her green credentials are as immaculate as her clothes on account of her decision not to have children.

Bradshaw's choice of contraception, however, might anger the pro-life coalition American Life League, which is launching a controversial campaign tomorrow arguing (somewhat dubiously) that hormones in the contraceptive pill are damaging the environment.

Staying on the topic of fertility, or the lack thereof, new research has blamed mobile phone signals for the declining rate of bees. Scientists found that the queen bee's egg production dropped sharply in a hive fitted with mobile phones, although the worker drones did find it much easier to dial out for pizza.

Bee-killing cellphone users could try to redeem themselves by investing in the latest in green gadgetry: a pedal-powered phone charger.

Finally, things took another turn for the worse for BP this week after Uncle Sam pledged to hold a criminal investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster.

Keith Harrington succinctly set out the case for BP being a textbook psychopath, which feels strangely appropriate when you see any of the horrific photos of animals drenched in oil.