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 via The NY Daily News As everybody knows, one of the greatest pitfalls of living a carnivorous lifestyle has always been the limited selection of meat-based beverages available to consumers -- but that hasn't stopped folks from trying to come up with the perfect meat-based drink. Although the cup or glass is generally thought of as Read the ...
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University of Vermont, Old Mill Building. Image credit: Wikipedia I always wondered if claims of disposable table cutlery being biodegradable - especially the ones made from vegetable starch - would hold up once the utensils ended up in a commercial composting operation. As University of Vermont has discovered: some do not degrade at all. Apparently some makers of "biodegradable" ...
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter If you are one of those people who turns your nose up at Brussels sprouts, then chances are you grew up eating over-cooked, mushy sprouts that made your house smell terrible. Roasting them or sauteeing them in a pan makes them deliciously sweet and nutty flavoured, a fry cry from the boiled mess you might have ...
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Image: Author I enjoy cooking with olive oil, and I have heard the rumors that it is the secret to the ageless beauty of Italian women, but come on! Could you imaging rubbing oil from the bottle on your skin and hair? It was Siobhan O'Connor and Alexandra Spunt of No More Dirty Looks fame that really gave me ...
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Photo: Fashion me Green The first thing I do when I open a magazine--after the contributors page--is flip to the fashion editorial spreads: they capture the essence of a collection, season, trend and/or subject in photos. Greta Eagan, founder and editor of Fashion me Green , gives us just this; she styles each shoot with green fashion and asks ...
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Native Amazonian children-- not from the Yanomami tribe but still critical in protecting our planet's lungs, the Amazon. Photo: Jess Root When I traveled to the Amazon Rainforest in 2008, scoping out the work of non-profit Projeto Saude e Alegria , I came home with one of those "Duh!" lightbulb moments. A large part of protecting the Amazon Rainforest ...
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Photo: IllinoisHorseSoldier A study done at Portsmouth University shows prawns found in contaminated English waters were under the influence of antidepressants which altered their marine behavior. Scientists are becoming more aware of how an overabundance of pharmaceuticals are seriously polluting our bodies of water. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest here: Sedated Shrimp in British Waters
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The much-hyped, much-delayed Chevy Volt is due out in "late 2010." At least that's the latest estimate. Meanwhile, Volt-maker General Motors plans to launch a robot to the International Space Station on Nov. 1.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: GM Plans to Launch Robonaut 2 Before Chevy Volt 1
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Image credit:via University of Missouri -Kansas City School of Law . Excerpted from the work by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury. "Galileo before the Holy Office", 1847. Musee Luxembourg. Due mainly to habitat loss, well-known and deeply-cherished animals all over the world are disappearing at astonishing rates. Nothing proposed by the UN has appreciably curbed this modern, and uniquely extreme 'loss of ...
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Photo courtesy Jody Hoppis. Registered nurse Jody Hoppis wanted more time with her patients, and a schedule that would accomodate her life as a working mom of three. So she ditched her job at a family practice clinic and set up her own nursing practice called mymobilemedicine , of medical house calls made exclusively by electric bicycle. ... Read ...
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How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
Food and Water Watch video explains the winners and losers as a result of the US farm bill. More here: The Biggest Farm Bill Loser: Cartoon Explains a Corrupt Food System
