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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Amazing Event! Congrats to Organizers and Participants! The first annual Youth Bike Summit took place in New York City last weekend, and our friend Robin from Streetfilms was in attendance. It's truly amazing to see so many young people doing their part for a better city and a more sustainable future. Thanks must also go to Janette Sadik-Khan, NYC's ...
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Photos: Youtube screen grabs A Pretty Safe Electric Jellybean In the video below, the German auto-club ADAC did its own safety test of the Mitsubishi i MiEV electric car, and the results are pretty positive. While the video is in German, you can see that even after a 40 MPH crash, the passenger cell remains intact, the airbags deploy ...
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Making Transit More Convenient = Good Chicago's Bus Tracker offers more evidence in favor of transit agencies releasing their data in open and usable formats . It not only allows transit users to track buses online and on their phones, knowing exactly when they'll arrive at the nearest stop thanks to GPS equipment, but it also makes it easy ...
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Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called " comprar, llençar, comprar" , meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the documentary in Spanish on RTVE (Spanish national TV). It tells the secret history of ...
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Image: gibbsbridge.org The Gibbs Street Pedestrian Bridge The City of Portland is working to build a new bike and pedestrian bridge over I-5 to connect the historic Lair Hill neighborhood with the South Waterfront District. The bridge will span approximately 700 feet, and will have a landing on the west side near the intersection of SW Gibbs Street and ...
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Photo: Screen grab from Tesla video Must See for EV Geeks Tesla's Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Peter Rawlinson, gives us a video tour of the alpha version of Tesla's next car, the Model S electric sedan. Rawlinson's hypnotic voice is worth the price of admission alone, but anybody who's interested by EV engineering and technology should check out ...
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Photo: Catty Shack Support Big Cats As they described themselves, "the Catty Shack Ranch Wildlife Sanctuary is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization that provides a safe and permanent home to many of the great cat species that are endangered and have been rescued or confiscated for illegal ownership, improper enclosures or maltreatment." They are located North of Jacksonville in ...
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A Wind of Change Blows Through Indiana A Reddit user going by the username of QueenBeeCassi has posted a... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Driving Through a Huge Wind Farm in Indiana (Video)
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Image: Youtube screen grab Does It Make a Cameo in Tron: Legacy? The X-Tracer Team won $2.5 million for the X-Prize Alternative Tandem competition with a 205.3 MPGe faired electric motorcycle. That electric vehicle is now known as the MonoTracer-E, and below is a video of it in action on the highway; the team was invited to display it ...
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There are 446 Bridges, Most with Pedestrian Sidewalks! This great video by our friend Clarence over at StreetFilms gives an excellent overview of Pittsburgh's bike culture and infrastructure. Having never been, and because Pittsburgh isn't as well covered by the national media, I had no idea that it was so vibrant and healthy. It's a nice surprise! If you ...
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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 ...
