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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With 200 films from 30 countries, the Los Angeles Film Festival (June 18 to 28) in Westwood near UCLA, seems far from Hollywood. The non-profit that organizes the event “champions the cause of independent films,” and though Public Enemies with Johnny Depp and the new Transformers movie will be premiered, the rest of the schedule has little connection with ...
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Brazilian Amazon Rainforest. Image via: Author's collection. Two reports came out this weekend about different methods that are being used to stop economic pursuits from cutting down the Amazon. The first involves legalizing squatters in the Brazilian Amazon , according to New Scientist. The second method involves using force to keep outsiders out of the Peruvian Amazon, reports the ...
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photo: Samuel M Beebe/Ecotrust , Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, via a href= flickr . As light increasingly gets shined on the impact of deforestation on accelerating climate change, we have a new report published in today's issue of Science which show that not only in deforestation bad for the planet, the eco... Read more here: Tropical Deforestation Brings Economic Boom, ...
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You may have seen how a new Greenpeace report ties together the Brazilian cattle industry, deforestation and several popular global shoe brands who are using what is in essence Read more: Tell Global Shoe Makers to Not Use Brazilian Deforestation Leather (Video)
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Photos via GreenWood.org During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate , and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild , I also reported on EcoMadera , a company work... Read more here: GreenWood: Forestry Management Meets Skilled Craft to Create Sustainable Livelihoods
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photo: Leonardo F Freitas via flickr. We've covered the cattle-deforestation connection in the Amazon on a number of occasions, and a new report from Greenpeace drives home the point: Raising cattle for beef and leather is a major factor in deforestation in the Amazon, and several international shoe brands may be buying leather from deforested areas and may not ...
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Image via: Author's collection Probably the most entertaining interview we conducted during my South American tour with Green Living Project was interviewing Brazil Nut Concession Owners, and in particular, Patricio León. This 75 year old man has been harvesting brazil nuts since he was about 14 years old and is still out doing it, though he admits that now ...
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Brazil is the world's largest exporter of beef. Photo: Valerio Pillar via flickr. We know that cattle pastures in what once was the Amazon rainforest are now the size of Iceland. But adding to that is a Reuters report that relays the information that cattle ranchers are far outpacing soy farmers on newly deforested land:... Read more from the ...
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Image via: Alexander Yellen When you see the Southern Cross for the first time….Actually, when you see the Southern Cross for the first time on a moonlit boat ride through the Amazon after a full days drive across Brazil, you’ll know that you’ve either hit the Jackpot or that you’re on a trip with Team Green Living Project . ...
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Images via: Getty Images New Scientists reports this month a possibly controversial finding that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (lungs), but they may also be responsible for moving (heart) many of the weather patterns we see all around the globe. This has impacts on the US, which may see more land turned to desert ...
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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 ...
