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 Courtesy of Beckmann N'Thépé The Leningrad, or St Petersburg Zoo, founded in 1865, is the oldest in Russia, and its age is indicative of its condition. Built in a time when zoos were designed to put animals on display rather than as centers of research and learning where the animals are well treated, this zoo suffers from a ...
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All images: © Luc Boegly, Courtesy of Christian Pottgiesser Talk about an urban jungle. In Paris' tenth arronidissement, two companies, Pons and Huot, share one of the more remarkable offices in the city. "Forest Through the Table," the work of architect Christian Pottgiesser , is the result of a 2005-2006 renovation of an old industrial workshop. Taking advantage of ...
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Image credit Todd Eberle After a visit to the Maison De Verre in Paris, I called it a green model for our times, being an urban, live/work, healthy redevelopment that was a demonstration of industrial materials and technologies. But it is also one of the most important and beautiful houses of the 20th century. The owner, investor turned academic ...
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The design blogs are agog that on the 125th anniversary of the registration of the first woman architect, Architect Barbie has been introduced. She arrives after a campaign by architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, who staged her own Architect Barbie exhibition in 2007. ( PDF here ) One could argue that she should be wearing more black, have round glasses ...
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Photo: oda: Velodrome London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. Happily, sanity has prevailed and the massive Olympic Stadium which was under threat of demolition will now be retained as a football (soccer) stadium. But ...
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Photos credit Sothebys Architect Adam Kushner was fortunate enough to be able to design his own New York apartment, and did so with some style. It is a bit eccentric, what with a jacuzzi in the middle of the ground floor living space and a glass floor in the bathroom above, but it does make clever reuse of the ...
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Images credit Hester + Hardaway The first things that catch your eye are the boxes, sort of indoor sheds. They are made from remilled roof decking from the old warehouse that is the new home for the Lance Armstrong Foundation , or LIVE STRONG . It isn't in any suburban office park, either, but in East Austin, a part ...
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Images credit The Haringey PassivTerrace It didn't look like much last summer, an empty, partially burned out row house in London. As part of a Retrofit for the Future programme, Anne Thorne Architects it trying to take the old thing and bring it up to Passivhaus standards, which demand a ton of insulation, really careful installation so that there ...
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Photos: Nicolas Scordia, J.P. Cervel, via OlivierDollé.com There's something great about wood furniture- it's solid, aesthetically pleasing, and has a lot of green potential, if it comes from reclaimed or sustainable sources . French designer and architect Olivier Dollé has come out with a line of wood furnishings that help remind us exactly where the wood they're made of ...
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photos credit Ganny Gozaly and dpavilion architects I do often wonder about container architecture; whether it is done because it is cheap, or whether it is done as an attention grabber. One certainly knows where the Indonesian firm dpavilion architects stand; they call their building Contertainer, and tell the Contemporist it is "an amalgam of two words: container and ...
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"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
