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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The National Design Awards , sponsored by the Smithsonian and Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, are out and a big green winner is Amory Lovins , who got the Design Mind Award, which "recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research and scholarship." ... See the original post here: National Design Awards ...
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Photo by KennethMoyle Tonic (a media company that makes it easy to do good) has posted 50 of the hottest people making a difference for the world. These do-gooders are blazing their trail with humor, style and grace. Lots of these hotties are of the green-persuasion…maybe even more than just green-curious! The list is filled with bartenders, designers , ...
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Photo by KennethMoyle Tonic (a media company that makes it easy to do good) has posted 50 of the hottest people making a difference for the world. These do-gooders are blazing their trail with humor, style and grace. Lots of these hotties are of the green-persuasion…maybe even more than just green-curious! The list is filled with bartenders, designers , ...
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Green building is a hot topic these days and there are some great people twittering about the latest in eco-friendly architecture and building design. Check out a few of the people we think you should follow to stay updated. ... Originally posted here: Top Ten Twitterers to Follow for Green Architecture
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Images from 2012 architecten on flickr Brigitte at Inhabitat beat me to the "everything but the kitchen sink" joke about this temporary structure built in Amsterdam two years ago, entirely out of kitchen sinks. ... Read the original post: Recycloop: Everything Including the Kitchen Sink
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You can usually tell a lot about an architect by the look of their office. Spanish firm Selgas Cano, who are also winners of this month's incomprehensible architects website award , have built themselves a pretty spectacular office in Madrid, lost among the trees. It certainly is low impact, barely rising above the ground, nestled among the greenery; on ...
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Having co-opted Steve Mouzon's phrase The greenest brick is the one already in the Wall, we note that this is the first day of National Preservation Month, in the US, designed to raise awareness about the power historic preservation has to protect and enhance our homes, neighborhoods and communities - the places that really matter to us. But also, ...
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William McDonough + Partners The Wall Street Journal asked four architects to: design an energy-efficient, environmentally sustainable house without regard to cost, technology, aesthetics or the way we are used to living. The idea was not to dream up anything impossible or unlikely -- in other words, no antigravity living rooms. Instead, we asked the architects to think of ...
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You can pass by many old industrial, commercial and residential buildings in the middle of winter and find the windows wide open, since the controls on the old steam heat systems are so primitive. They can have steel sash windows that barely keep the heat in. Andy Revkin writes that there are 22,000 buildings over 50,000 square feet in ...
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What do you do with a bunker like this? Archivolver put a house on it. Of course their site is in stupid flash so I can't translate it. And they have something else going on so I cannot even copy the link to the page. Why do architects do these things? ... Here is the original post: Creative Recycling: Bunker ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
