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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Images: Mairie de Paris If you've spent time in Paris, you've certainly seen the work of French designer Patrick Jouin , and maybe you've even ridden one. Last year, the designer of the Vélib' turned his attention away from transportation and to another, more basic need: going to the bathroom. Now installed throughout the city, Paris' new public toilets ...
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Image credit: Brondell Simple Flush Dual-flush toilets have always been popular here on TreeHugger. After all, it seems insane to use the same amount of drinking water to flush your number ones as your number twos. (It actually seems insane to use drinking water at all, but that's another story.) But rather than just advocating ripping out your old ...
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Lenny Bruce would have had such fun with this, but this just makes so much sense, a sink built on top of a urinal! And designer Yeongwoo Kim has made it look good, too. The theoretical sequence is that you use the urinal, then wash your hands and the washwater rinses the urinal, saving water. Since of course, everybody ...
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Images: Minarc via Architects Magazine From Earthships and building materials , to water filters , shoes and bags , old rubber tires have lon... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: RUBBiSH: Recycled Rubber Tire Sinks From Minarc
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Image via Jun Yasumoto This very well may be the strangest green bathroom shower concept we've seen in quite awhile. The Phyto-Purification Bathroom concept wants to both make you feel like you're showering in a pond and recycle your gray water. While strange, it is actually a very compelling design in how it thinks through the process of filtering ...
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Images via Yanko Design "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" -- This is an old saying that is great for living sustainably, and designs that help us live this mantra usually catch our eye. Such is the case with Re-Bubble by designers WooJae Lee, MinSu Kim & WoongKi Kim. The idea is that ...
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Falcon Water-Free Urinal In February we wrote What is the Cause of "Stinky Situation" With Waterless Urinals? , covering the fight between the plumbers' unions and the manufacturers of waterless urinals. Now Joshua Davis of Wired looks at the history of the waterless urinal, in Pissing Match: Is the World Ready for the Waterless Urinal? . He writes that ...
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Image: Kleenex Hand Towels "Kimberly-Clark has long recognized the importance of corporate responsibility and integrated the concept of sustainability in our business practices," the FAQ on Kleenex Hand Towels reassuringly announces. "At Kimberly-Clark, we take concern for the environment and conservation of natural resources seriously," it continues. Of course, "because of the superior softness consumers expect from KLEENEX® Brand, ...
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Sometimes you see an idea that makes you smack yourself on the side of the head and ask why nobody thought about that before, and this, from Yanko Design , of them. Ryan Harc designed this toothbrush (called DEWS) with a weight in the base to make it stand upright.... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Toothbrush Designed Like ...
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Image credit: Image Shack Ever feel like you live in a parallel universe? From the selective flush , to the slightly less controversial shared flush , I thought I had covered all the options for alternative toilet flushing methodologies. Heck, I've even looked at using no flush at all . But, thanks to tipster Nathan, I'm no... Read the ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"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
