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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Is that light efficient? Photo via Art es Anna Homes and businesses will now have new lighting standards to follow, which will help cut down on carbon emissions significantly. The problem, though, is a long wait for the rules to kick in combined with our short time to cut down on carbon emissions. Will the new rules make an ...
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photo: Tony via flick Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar power permitting offices and speed reviews of utility-scale solar power proposals in these ... Read the original here: Bureau of Land Management to ...
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I loved the idea of Lightlane when I wrote You Shall Have Bike Lanes Wherever You Go , but thought of it more as a conceptual project rather than a real product. No more; the response was so terrific that they are putting it into production.... Here is the original: Lightlane Is Going from Gleam To Reality
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Photo via the Daily Mail If you're hosting the world's most important conference on climate change , you sort of have to sweat the small stuff. Eyes from around the globe will be watching to see what progress the world leaders can make towards uniting to combat global warming in your town. So you can't very well send any ...
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photo: Joe via flickr With the American Clean Energy & Security Act approved by the House, President Obama has come out offering scant criticism of a climate change bill that is, bluntly, woefully inadequate when it comes to doing what scientists say is necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change. He did however comment to the Washington Post that he's ...
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We have not shown a lot of summer getaways on TreeHugger as of late; it often takes a lot of driving to get to them. But summer is here, and there is so much architectural eye candy around. Like Neeson Murcutt's lovely box house 500 km south of Sydney.... View post: Neeson Murcutt's off-grid Box House
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Screenshot via ReadWriteWeb Around every corner is a list on how to cut down on your home energy use. The problem with most of these tip sheets is that the suggestions don't fit your circumstances. Usually we skim through and pick out the small handful that apply to us and that we can follow, and discard the rest of ...
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photo: Brian Snelson via flick Hopefully you already are aware of the plight of orangutans in Borneo and Sumatra as logging and palm oil plantations continue to rapidly destroy their habitat. The rate of deforestation and habitat loss is so great that some scientists are predicting that the orangutan will be the first great ape to go extinct in ...
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Wikipedia Swifts, described in the Times as "those soaring harbingers of summer", have declined in population by 47% in the last twenty years in the UK, and some suspect it might be because of people fixing their houses.... Continued here: Unintended Consequences: Swifts in Nosedive, Modern Architecture and Weatherization Blamed
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The competition for the .eco top level domain registration is heating up. We recently talked about Big Room's push for their Dot Eco project , which is competing with the View original here: Competition for .eco Domain Heating Up (Video)
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"They love each other as if they were male and female, courting each other the same," says one zoo staffer. "But what they want is what they lack: to raise a chick." Read more here: Gay Penguin Pair Adopt an ...
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
