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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Photo: National Post (Dario Ayala/Canwest News Service) It's been a hot, dry start to summer - and Quebec is burning. A blanket of smoke descended on Montreal early Monday morning, blown in from forest fires raging in the northwest region of Quebec. The effects of the blaze were seen today as far south as Boston, Cape Cod and other ...
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Photo via The Sydney Morning Herald In 2007, villagers captured a mysterious young woman in a remote region of Cambodia who, by all accounts, was completely isolated from human society, a feral child living in the forests. News of her discovery circulated quickly as authorities attempted to identify the girl, dubbed "Jungle Girl" by the press. Soon, a f... ...
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Image: Video still from Bill Rankin via Nicola Twilley @ Edible Geography The intensity of agricultural land use has exploded over the past 300 years. Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography synthesized data from an expansive historical land-use survey to give us a telling visual overview. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Agricultural Takes Over The World
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Steve Mouzon has been a fixture on TreeHugger since I first read his thoughts on the original green, on how people designed before the the Thermostat age, and how buildings kept people warm in an era before oil, or cool before air conditioning was invented. I have come to base much of my thoughts on the sustainability of heritage ...
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photo via ted On Fareed Zakaria's CNN show, GPS , Bill Gates gave a gloomy answer when asked about the prospects of the U.S. creating renewable energy projects at such a large scale that they will replace dirty fuel sources like coal and oil in the coming decade. Gates, normally sanguine on the power of technology and market forces ...
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All photos by Javier Callegras from CG Architectes Mocoloco shows us the CrossBox by CG Architectes , built from four shipping containers.... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post here: Stunning French Shipping Container House (We Think)
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In January I visited Toronto's Urban Mode for the opening of their new Blu Dot showroom, which I thought was very attractive. What I didn't know until I was researching the new Sustain Trio MiniHome was that it was a green prefab! Blu Dot co-founder Charlie Lazor would be so proud. I visited it this weekend to catch some ...
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Greenpeace in the UK started a wonderfully clever competition to create a new logo for BP in protest of their investment in the Alberta tar sands; events overtook them as the gulf spill became the poster child. And this is the company that was once going "beyond petroleum."... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original: Help Redesign BP's ...
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Image credit: Ultra Motor Last year The Guardian's Helen Pridd reviewed the GoCycle electric bike , and she was impressed. At the time she promised a comparison of different e-bikes was in the works. It may have taken them a while, but the Guardian bike blog have made good on their promise. But what were the results? Are e-bikes ...
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We keep saying that green roofs are changing architecture and planning , and here is another example, where the green roof turns into green walls and comes down to grade. Actually not to grade, but to some form of podium. Dezeen shows us La Maison-vague by Patrick Nadeau, is being built in Reimes, France, as part of an affordable ...
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"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
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
