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 credit: Sam Lucas Three years ago we wrote about the amazing conversion of an english Martello Tower into a home by Piercy Conner Architects. There wasn't a lot of information available about it at the time, but there is now; It was short-listed for a RIBA award and John Glancey, architectural critic for the Guardian, recently covered it ...
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Image credit Gizmodo There is a trend in architecture to try and actively promote health and exercise; The New York Times Building has prominent, bright stairs for circulation; Tom Mayne's San Francisco Federal Building's elevators... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: Slides Help Make Architecture Healthy and Fun
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Image credit houseplans.com Dan Gregory, editor of Houseplans.com , writes that Lester Walker, author of American Shelter and a Little House of My Own, now has his plans for sale on the site. It is a lovely little 250 square foot design, from a talented and well known architect. A set of plans costs $ 2500... Read the full ...
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Image: TreeHugger Looking back at 2010, it's clear that the Gulf Oil Spill is the story that will headline environmental history books. But it's not the only memorable one: From nearly invisible mirrored treehouses to strange pale and blind ants found in the Amazon to See the rest here: The Most Popular and Memorable Stories of 2010
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Images courtesy (fer) studio One post on TreeHugger says The Greenest Brick is the One That's Already in the Wall ; another that LEED stands for "Lunatic Environmentalists Enthusiastically Demolishing" . But now we are beginning to see the best of both worlds, with very green renovations and restorations, like the eponymously named Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky; it ...
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Images courtesy (fer) studio One post on TreeHugger says The Greenest Brick is the One That's Already in the Wall ; another that LEED stands for "Lunatic Environmentalists Enthusiastically Demolishing" . But now we are beginning to see the best of both worlds, with very green renovations and restorations, like the eponymously named Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky; it ...
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Images credit ILEK You can't always get what you want, but but dream homes always show a lot more than you need. From the beloved Monsanto House of the Future to Michelle Kaufmann's Smart Home in Chicago, they always have more gizmos, more space and even more parking than most people can ever dream of owning. The Plus Energy ...
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images credit aat+makoto yokomizo architects TreeHugger founder Graham Hill is trying to radically reduce his footprint and live happily with less space, less stuff and less waste on less money, but with more design. He calls it "LifeEdited." You can help: Enter the LifeEdited design competition and win up to $70,000 in prizes and the opportunity to design the ...
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Image Credit The Modules Philadelphia architects Interface Studio are known to TreeHugger for their work with PostGreen and on the 100K house . They have also just completed a modular student residence at Temple University that really does demonstrate the virtues of modular construction.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Interface Studio Builds Modular Student Residence
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All images credit Shai Gil These days, people don't build a lot of social housing, and when they do it is usually, as architectural critic John Bentley Mays noted, "architecturally dull and oppressive places, like jails, meant to encourage tenants to move on as quickly as possible". Three years ago TreeHugger covered the design of Stephen Teeple's 60 Richmond ...
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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 ...
