Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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Supermarket Encourages Shoppers to Leave Packaging Behind Back in my early days of environmental awareness, it was a common form of protest to visit a grocery-store, pile your shopping cart high with goods, and then hold up the check-out lines as you unwrapped any item with excessive packaging - leaving the store to deal with the unwanted waste. Inconvenient? ...
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Gökova Bay in southwestern Turkey. Photo via Kaptan Haber Enjoyed by holidaymakers since the time of the Roman Empire, Sedir Island off Turkey's southwest coast is home to one of Forbes magazine's most "breathtaking beaches ." Its unusually fine sand, said to have been imported from Egypt by Mark Antony for Cleopatra's visits, takes so long to form that ...
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In March, we talked about AMEE - the Avoiding Mass Extinction Engine - that aims to give everything on the planet an energy identity, and make that energy identity something useful. The organization feels that is the key to ensuring life as we enjoy it continues on. They've recently partnered up with another great organization, EQ 2 , which ...
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The Down:2:Earth Green Living Expo is happening April 3-5 in Boston. TreeHugger's very own editor extraordinaire Meaghan O'Neill will be there working on a special project that we want YOU to be part of! ... Read the original: Down:2:Earth is This Weekend, Catch TreeHugger There!
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For this Earth Day , you just might be resolving to ditch plastic bottles and instead use a quality reuseable water container. Kor One is hoping so anyway, and they're launching water bottles in specific colors, each of which helps out a specific water-related cause. ... Read the original post: Kor One Water Bottles Support Water Causes
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Photos: Reprint. It all began with Freitag , a Swiss brand that came up with the idea of using tarps from trucks to create messenger bags. After that, it was only a matter of time before more designers saw the potential in large PVC canvases from advertising to use the material in similar ways (check out Modulab and Baumm ...
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It's refreshing that Lika Volkova comes straight out and says that new clothing lines mean more factories running, more trucks transporting, and ultimately (especially since we know clothing distributors even burn stuff they don't sell ) more waste. So what's an enterprising clothing designer to do? Stop competing in the high-fashion world. ... Read more from the original source: Lika Volkova ...
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Portrait of George Orwell. Image credit: George-Orwell.org The British government is proposing installation of satellite surveillance devices in all new cars and trucks sold after 2013, so they will be able to " track the whereabouts of drivers anywhere in Europe ," The Guardian reveals. Breaking News , 1 April 2009: TreeHugger has learned that the true intent of ...
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Image from Daily Mail Fasten your seatbelts, an 82ft-long commercial airliner is to be used as the UK's (the world's?) first classroom for primary school pupils.The Short 360, originally a commuter plane, was decommissioned after thousands of hours of flying businessmen to Ireland and Spain. It is now going to take its final landing and be recycled at a ...
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Wasn't this thing supposed to lower gas prices and create like 10 million jobs? Read the original: Ol' Keystone XL Will Raise Gas Prices After All: New Report
Goodbye shipping containers, hello pallets as the design meme of the moment. Here is the original: It's Palletpalooza at New York Design Week and ICFF
