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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Hidden deep within the Venezuelan jungle, stands the tallest waterfall in the world. It's so tall, rising to a height of 3,212 ft, that the roaring torrent of falling water is reduced to a mere mist before meeting the rocks below. Due to its remote location, the magnificent cascade wasn't known to the outside world until 16 November, 1933, ...
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Evo Morales and Hugo Chávez on a visit to Cuba. Photo via Reuters When Bolivian President Evo Morales and Hugo Chávez of Venezuela took the stage at COP15 , there was little doubt the pair were going to have some strong words for the international assembly ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See original here: Is Capitalism to Blame ...
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Photo via Momento24 Brazil's pragmatic president Lula, with his bold pronouncement that his country would reduce its CO2 emissions by 36.1% to 38.9% by 2020, secured himself as a prime protagonist amongst leaders at COP15 . In his signature manner, he has generally shied away from the careful political-speak adopted by many of his head-of-state contemporaries when discussing climate ...
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One of the only known images of the 'Man of the Hole', taken by filmaker Vincent Carelli In the depths of the rainforest lives the sole survivor of one of the few remaining uncontacted Amazonian tribes. Little is known about the man, but it is believed that the rest of his tribe was massacred by ranchers sometime in the ...
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Photo: Hélvio Romero / AE Sao Paulo is underwater. The most populous city in the Americas was drenched with more rain than it could handle; Yesterday alone, it amounted to nearly half of the total precipitation expected for the entire month of December. The rain not only shut down the bustling city, but was responsible for six deaths and ...
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A kid stands on pipes of previous oil extractions in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Photo: Lou Dematteis for the Crude Reflections book . We spoke about this campaign being in the making before , and about a presentation of it a month ago at the UN , but now it's a fact: Ecu... Read the full story on TreeHugger The ...
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Photo: Ibama . We're talking about deforestation in the Amazon all the time, but can we really understand the magnitude of what we're saying? This is where an image is worth a thousand words: this is how a 15 tons, 40 meters tall, ¡250! years of age, fallen tree from the Amazon looks like. According to Continued here: Impressive: This ...
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Photo: Rodolfo Clix . Brazilian president Luis Inacio 'Lula' Da Silva is not only going to this year's Copenhagen summit , he's also actively participating in negotiations. Which is a good thing, since the country is one of the most carbon emitting developing nations in the world. As Lula continues to prepare Brazil's proposal for Copenhagen along with his ...
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photo: Leo Freitas via flickr Another good news update in the battle against deforestation in the Amazon : Greenpeace is hailing the announcement by four of the world's largest players in the cattle industry that they have committed to ban purchases of beef produced in newly deforested areas:... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here: Brazil's Beef ...
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photo: David Morimoto via flickr. A little bit late to the game, but glad they've arrived... The world's largest exporter of meat products, Brazil's JBS-Frisboi has pledged to no longer buy cattle raised from areas of the deforested Amazon which were cleared after September 23rd of this year, Excerpt from: World's Largest Meat Exporter Says No More Amazon Deforestation Beef
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
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 ...
