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: Planeat From my musings on what a vegan world would actually look like , to PETA's infographic on what happens when everyone eats vegan , we've seen plenty of speculation about what our future would look like if we abandoned, or severely curtailed, our use of meat, dairy and other animal products. But there's no need to ...
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Image credit: Soil Association From Sacramento High School students creating their own CSA to an after-school program based on an urban farm , we've seen plenty of ways that the local food movement is integrating with educational opportunities for school-aged children. But this might be the first time we've seen a full farmers market in a school. organized by ...
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Photo credit: Klobetime / Creative Commons In 1994, I wrote an article in World Watch magazine entitled "Who Will Feed China?" that was later expanded into a book of the same title. When the article was published in late August, the press conference generated only moderate coverage. But when it was reprinted that weekend on the front of the ...
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photo: CALM Action / Creative Commons Over at Grist yesterday Tom Philpott wrote one of the most important and practical pieces in food politics writing I've seen in a while (and self-reflective green movement commentary). Philpott rightly urges both vegans and meat-eaters to set aside dietary differences for the gre... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from ...
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John has written before about how manure lagoons may become a liability in a warming climate , but even now the practice of storing vast amounts of animal waste in anaerobic lagoons is causing major environmental concerns. Science Daily points to new research showing that manure storage lagoons in North and South Carolina have proliferated over the last 15 ...
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Image credit: Martijn van Exel , used under Creative Commons license. I seem to be thinking a lot about the ethics of meat eating recently. From wondering why I don't feel bad for eating meat yet still apologize for it , to posting about The Moneyless Man's comparison between meat eating, genocide, eugenics and cannibalism , it's a ... ...
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Soybean field in Kentucky, photo: Brian Bennett / Creative Commons I'll say it bluntly and blanketedly: I can't stand Monsanto, even separate from my disdain for GM crops --they are a perfect example of the worst excesses of opaque corporate shenanigans that, alongside outright political dictatorship and oppression, are direct threats to true democracy. Here's t... Read the full ...
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Image credit: TreemediaGroup When the makers of the End of Suburbia filmed Brother Nature Farm in Detroit , it was an inspiring first-hand account of how urban agriculture activists are working to feed the Motor City . While the slicker models of city farming may have some people worr... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here: Urban ...
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From Collin's dad's solar geodesic greenhouse , through a greenhouse built from soda bottles , to a simple DIY hoop house , we're not shot on self-built grow spaces here on TreeHugger. but the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia has a very detailed post and time-lapse slideshow by Rob Avis about how he built a Read the original here: How ...
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Image credit: CllrPhillipBooth There's no doubt about it, we Brits love potatoes. Lloyd has already marveled at the celebration of "Potato Day" , and Bonnie followed up with details on how gardeners across the country gather to marvel at the diverse range of potatoes from around the Globe (over 7000 varieties exist world-wide!). Now, at last, we have video ...
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Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
