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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Glenn Beck: Environmentalist? An interview with Beck in USA Weekend revealed that the shock jock's private views on climate are very different from those he espouses in his day job. In fact, Beck appears not only to be convinced that global warming is real, but that it's a genuine problem . Kerry Weirdly Upbeat on Climate Bill: "I'm excited. ...
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Photo: BBC Brasil Josefa Garcia Rojas walks through the eerily barren streets of Potosi, a small Venezuelan city where she lived most of her 84 years, amid the skeletons of trees and groups of curious onlookers. This is the first time she's stepped foot here since she and a thousand other residents were forced to flee their homes to ...
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photo via ENBOTS Climate change denier Marc Morano used to work for climate change denier Sen. James Inhofe but now he runs his own website dedicated to putting out misleading or false information on global warming. This past week, Morano traveled to the Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, to deliver his usual conspiracy theories and denials of ...
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There is nothing greener than renovation, repurposing and reuse of existing buildings, so how could we not publish this conversion of an Atlas Missile base in the Adirondacks into a lovely 2300 square foot underground home, complete with private runway, contemporary fiber optic effect lighting along with natural sunlight rendition back lighting, and a ventilation system specia... Read the ...
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Rust in Peace, and I don't mean the Megadeth album. Photo: Flickr , CC The Sale to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Fell Through GM has been trying to sell its Hummer brand for about two years now. It has a preliminary deal with a Chinese company, but that collapsed when they couldn't get approval form the Chinese ...
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Photo via UPI Earlier today, I reported that there are still hopes a bipartisan clean energy bill will come to a vote in the Senate this year. I also mentioned that the primary mechanism of reducing greenhouse gas emissions was still being discussed, and that it may not end up being the cap and trade system we've all come ...
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Image credit: Grist In response to the technological threat posed by Sputnik , Grist reminds us , the United States established DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, to spark new innovations in space and military technology. Now, renewable energy is our space race. Steven Chu and the Obama Administration ho... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Talking with ...
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Image credit: Good In the future, calling them gas stations will probably be a misnomer: In all likelihood, fueling stations will not be dispensing fossil fuels. What fuel source we will rely on—and how it will be distributed—however, has yet to be determined. In the meantime, Good wants to see your vision .... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Plastic marine debris collected in a surface plankton net tow. Photo: Sea Education Association. Though it hasn't garnered nearly as much attention as its plastic-ridden analog in the Pacific, the North Atlantic Ocean too has its very own gigantic patch of floating plastic waste . Recently the 5 Gyres project See more here: The Atlantic Gets Its Own Great Plastic Garbage ...
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Do you know of a green person, product, company, event, or concept that deserves to be lauded for the positive environmental change it has enacted? Let us know! In TreeHugger's second annual Best of Green Awards , we're looking to bestow top honors on the people, places, and things that are helping move sustainability into the mainstream. Last year, ...
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"It was like finding a long lost friend." Continued here: Woman Reunites With the Bike She Lost 40 Years Ago (Video)
Rising temperatures will increase the deaths Originally posted here: Climate Change is Frying Our Cities
