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: 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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Taking this photo, apparently from the side of the road, would be a criminal act. Photo: InspireFate Photography / Creative Commons . Grist highlights what Norman wants to do: SB 1246 by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, would make it a first-degree felony to photograph a farm without first obtaining written permission from the owner. A farm is defined as ...
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As you could probably guess, the darkest red is the highest density of factory farms, and is based on data from 2007 (the newest available). Above are all the different kinds of factory farms together; scroll down for individual farm types. All images: Factory Farm Map A couple days ago Rachel reported on how factory farms have grown 20% ...
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photo: Barbara Veiga / Sea Shepherd Pete Bethune, captain of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society 's now-sunken Ady Gil , has been given a two-year suspended sentence for boarding the whaler Shonan Maru #2 in an attempt to make a citizen's arrest of the captain for attempted murder and deliver a bill for the cost of the sunken ship. ... Read ...
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Humpback whale breaching, photo: Christopher DiNottia . Continuing on a theme that keeps coming up on TreeHugger, the fact that an increasing number of scientists believe that cetaceans have levels of self-awareness and societal development that they should be granted rights similar to human rights : There... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Whaling & Dolphin ...
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photo: Farm Sanctuary Back in March Farm Sanctuary rescued six calves that had almost starved to death from a farm in Pennsylvania. After much hard work and round the clock care the SPCA and Farm Sanctuary were able to nurse Sasha, Jasper, Filipe, Teddy, Vito, Clancy, Poncho, and Amigo back to health and now they need a good home. ...
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Scroll down for for the actual video. Be aware the 'disturbing images' warning at the start of it is no joke. In the midst of the all oil spill all the time coverage out there, you may have missed this truly horrific story of systematic animal cruelty perpetrated at Conklin Dairy Farms in Ohio. Mercy For Animals ran an ...
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Photo: Creative commons . Meet Interesting Animals, Learn About Them, Eat Them... You might think that a zoo's mission is to care for animals and to educate the general public about the fascinating creatures that we share our planet with. For most zoos, that's the case, but the Beijing Zoo operates a bit differently. You can't feed the animals, ...
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photo: NOAA via flickr This isn't the first time the subject of rights for whales has come up and let's hope it's not the last: At a two-day meeting in Helsinki led by the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society conservationists, philosophers and lawyers have come out saying that cetaceans should be granted the equivalent of human rights.... Read the ...
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photo: Mike Rosenberg via flickr. Chalk up yet another reason to oppose factory farming: BBC News reports that scientists from the University of Hong Kong have found evidence that overuse of antibiotics on farm animals is leading to an increase in antibiotic-resistant human urinary tract infections. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: More Factory Farming Means More ...
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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 ...
