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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Bisphenol A has been used to line cans since the '50s. But seriously, the Natural Resources Defense Council is tired of waiting for the Food and Drug Administration to deal with Bisphenol A, a possibly endocrine-disrupting chemical. They have filed a lawsuit against the FDA for "its failure to act on a petition to ban the use of Bisphenol ...
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"Seeing death on this scale has quite an impact on the team." About 5 minutes into the video above, a film crew dives in the South Pacific waters and films for what is probably the first time ever (that's what they claim, anyway) the inside of a giga... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Shocking: Industrial ...
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Image credit: ori2uru /Flickr Researchers often wondered whether the finless porpoise , which has a range from Japan to China, India to the Persian Gulf—in fresh and salt water—might not be a single species. New research , however, indicates that at least one group—which lives in China's Yangtze River—is genetically distinct from Neophocaena phocaenoides as a whole. If verified, ...
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard A Quarter Billion of Cash Money for Tesla Electric car maker Tesla Motors had its initial public offering (IPO) today and ended up selling 13.3 million shares of common stock, 20% more than first expected, at a price of $17, also higher than the expected range of $14-16. This should mean an infusion of about ...
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Photo via Green BP has announced plans to send cash to suffering gas stations in the US -- which is pretty revealing. It's evidence that the numerous boycotts against BP that have been orchestrated across the nation are indeed having a very distinct, very significant impact. Those boycotts and the bad PR have had a serious and immediate financial ...
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Photo via MediaSpan Some 100,000 people die every year in the United States as a result of infections caused by bacteria known as 'super bugs', which have developed a resistance to antibiotics due to their overuse in the livestock industry . Anyone familiar with factory farming and the fast food industry knows that these antibiotics are pumped into animal ...
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White-rumped vulture, photo: Lip Kee Yap via flickr Some hope for three species of endangered Indian vultures: Conservationists have successfully bred all of them in captivity for the first time. Considering that at current rates of decline--brought about in no small part because of a painkiller used in cattle (more on that below)--these vultures would be globally extinct within ...
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Image via BornRich I'd have to say, I'm not so sure I would. Not that the Scubster might fail, but that my legs would before I could resurface. Minh-Lôc Truong and Stéphane Rousson, a team of French designers and engineers, are apparently more sure of themselves than me as they're currently building a pedal-powered personal wet sub, and will ...
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Image credit: SlapBcn /Flickr The 21st century began on an inspiring note: The United Nations set a goal of reducing the share of the world's population living in extreme poverty by half by 2015. By early 2007 the world looked to be on track to meet this goal, but as the economic crisis unfolds and the outlook darkens, the ...
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photo: teesha dunn via flickr We already knew that Italy was the world's second-largest solar power market in 2009 (the United States was fourth, by the way), but according to a new piece in Wind-works Italy is installing more solar power in two months than California does in a year. By the end of this year they are expected ...
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Poor neighborhoods have fewer trees, as these jarring satellite photos reveal. Originally posted here: How to Spot Income Inequality from Space: Look for the Trees
Hawaii becomes the first state in the union to enact a ban on plastic bags at checkout counters. Sierra Club looks into how it finally came into being. Go here to read the rest: A Look Inside How Hawaii's Plastic ...
