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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Image credit: Consider Us The UNEP's Consider Us campaign is one of those initiatives that has me totally inspired and utterly depressed at the same time. Inspired because the idea of giving youth a voice in advance of the Copenhagen climate summit is about as important task as I can think of. Depressed because we've given youth a voice ...
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Mociun winter wool coat. Credit: Mociun We covet Caitlin Mociun 's Native American-inspired coat--made from 100% mill end blanket wool --for winter, featured on and sold at Kaight NYC --we stopped there last week for Ecouterre's launch party . Click through for full length photos and more on Mociun. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See more here: Weekend ...
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The Black Sea is an integral part of millions of peoples' lives. Photo of Trabzon, Turkey, by Whewes via Flickr. With its watershed covering almost one-third of continental Europe, an area home to some 160 million people, there are plenty of opportunities for pollution to run into the Black Sea -- and only one outlet to the world's oceans ...
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photo: J. Novak If you've never before been plagued with allergies , it ain't pretty. Sniffling, sneezing, congestion --symptoms can vary dramatically but more and more people are getting them. According to an article in Time Magazine , climate change is to blame.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Your First Season of Allergies? Global Warming Could Be ...
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Photo via Flickr I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia, for two weeks. It's 95 degrees everyday here, and the metro area is a concrete jungle of 23 million fed by street vendors, choked by traffic, and populated by what must be the nicest collection of people on the planet. Scooters fill the narrow streets like swarms of bees, weaving in and ...
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Photo via Flickr I'm in Jakarta, Indonesia, for two weeks. It's 95 degrees everyday here, and the metro area is a concrete jungle of 23 million fed by street vendors, choked by traffic, and populated by what must be the nicest collection of people on the planet. Scooters fill the narrow streets like swarms of bees, weaving in and ...
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The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other! ...
The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other! ...
