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: Good Updating status, posting on a wall, buzzing, tweeting, checking in, connecting: Social networks have become a powerful and pervasive tool for communicating with our friends and colleagues. But what happens when these tools find a purpose beyond social networking and start helping social good?... Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post: When Social ...
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photos by Lloyd Alter unless noted So many of our smaller towns and cities are in trouble; just a few weeks ago I wrote about one that was demolishing an entire street of empty buildings . Others pull themselves together and reinvent themselves. Guelph, Ontario is such a place; a few years ago citizens formed a Civic League to ...
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Good Bike Infrastructure = Safer Streets for Everybody Here's another video from our prolific friend Clarence Eckerson. It's about a clever piece of bike infrastructure that the San Francisco Department of Transportation added to the 'Wiggle' bike route. It's composed of a Read more here: This is What Cyclists as First Class Citizens Look Like (Video)
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Terracycle has opened the world's largest "green" pop-up store in NYC's Port Authority building. Image credit: Terracycle There was a time when the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan was little more than place to catch a bus. Things are changing, however, for the terminal—once listed as one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world —and TerraClycle 's ...
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Photo via DC Streets Blog Is the US Ready for a New Gas Tax? The US has long had among the most minuscule taxes of transportation fuels in the developed world--blame it on our deeply ingrained car culture or the plethora of wide open spaces that make transit via automobile seem more like a need than a privilege. Either ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Not Again! It was only a couple weeks ago that I wrote about a Chinese zoo accused of letting 11 rare siberian tigers starve to death . If that wasn't bad enough, a mass grave containing the remains of "more than 30 animals, including rare white tigers and lions" was discovered at a different Chinese ...
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Picture via Red5 This guest post was written by D. Salmons of TestFreaks , which reviews everything from camcorder to dishwashers . I wanted to teach my young son about solar energy, and all the ways it could be used in everyday life. I wanted him to realize that solar power could be used not only in the home, ...
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Lu Ban is credited in China with developing the first saw, paper umbrella, kite, arch bridge and even a glider. He is considered the first and greatest architect in China, a Leonardo da Vinci two thousand years earlier. Now Chinese academic Xu Quan Long claims that he designed the first tricycle, and has built this recreation. ... Read the ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Getting Nowhere Fast A few years ago, I read a pretty good book by Harvard social psychologist Dan Gilbert . It's titled Stumbling on Happiness , and it's mostly about the gap between what people think will make them happy and what actually does. It turns out that we aren't very good at all at ...
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This guest post was written by Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS shoes. I started a company called TOMS which gives a pair of new shoes to child in need, for every pair sold. One for One. And shortly after we started I realized it was hard for my friends and people who were our customers to really understand ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
