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: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow While normally a species measuring in at only around 2 millimeters in length might be easily overlooked, one tiny freshwater-dwelling critter has found a way to turn peoples' heads. Researchers studying 'water boatman' ( Micronecta scholtzi ), an aquatic insect native to Europe, say that the minuscule species takes the mantle as the world's ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Tests by Vestas Show 99% Reduction in Radar Interference! Who would have thought that military stealth airplane technology could one day help to provide clean energy for the world? Swords into ploughshares, no kidding! The Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has tested a prototype of a radar-friendly turbine in the UK and found that the ...
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All images by Cycle for Water Thanks to our new TreeHugger Photo Pool on Flickr , we learned about a really amazing project called Cycle for Water. Starting almost exactly a year ago, on July 4, 2010, Joost Notenboom and Michiel Roodenburg started an incredible 18-month journey on bamboo bikes, cycling from northern Alaska to the southern tip of ...
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Note date on original study, linked to in articles All the blogs are writing about a Harvard Business Review story by Andrew Winston, titled Local Food or Less Meat? Data Tells The Real Story ; even our Rachel picked it up with New Study: Going Meat-Free One Day a Week Saves More GHG Emissions Than A 100% Local Diet ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC 513 Yays, 79 Nays Here's a quick update on the situation regarding nuclear power in Germany. About a month ago, Brian wrote about a proposal by Chancellor Angela Merkel to phase out nuclear power by 2022. We also covered the resulting (sad) corollary: Merkel Says Germany Needs 20GW of Fossil... Read the full story on ...
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Hills, hills & hills by Cycle for Water . Used with permission. Flickr user Cycle for Water posted this picture to our new TreeHugger Flickr Group . He is on an epic bike journey of some sort, which Jaymi will be writing more about soon. If you're a Flickr user and want to share some of your best photographs ...
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Photo: theviewtube The British artist Gavin Turk loves bicycles. Last year he designed 15 wild and crazy bicycles for an international art fair. This year he is getting into the Olympic spirit and creating a 4 person collective biking experience made out of unicycles. It will be located at our favourite container cafe , the View Tube.... Read the ...
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Photo via Google.maps Institutes of higher learning are designed to energize and empower communities to reach a brighter future -- but one school in California is taking that mission literally. For the very first time, a college in the United States has managed to not only go off the grid by producing their own clean electricity, but to produce ...
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Photo: elisfanclub / cc Last week, several dozen dead and dying Magellanic penguins were discovered on beaches throughout south Brazil, apparent victims of an oil spill. So far more than 140 penguins have been transfered to animal care facilities to be cleaned and rehabilitated, while an untold number more have already perished from contaminated waters. If this fact alone ...
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Back when I only covered sustainable business, my colleagues and I lamented the word sustainability - if we could only have a sexier, cooler word, we thought, the concept would surely sell itself more easily, and everyone, including the earth, would live happily ever after. So it is, to some degree, with cycling. The word is more apt to conjure ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
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 ...
