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
published March 30, 2009 and has No Comments
Image via: Flickr.com Okay so I saw the title too ( Throw Out 50 Things ) and thought, wrong! But don't worry, there is a lot of good that can be taken from this book and author Gail Blanke isn't exactly saying throw it all in the garbage , but more like "remove it" from where it's doing more ...
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Photo: Wend Wend Magazine is currently offering yearly subscription of the mag in digital format for a paltry $5. Five dollars! Talk about a no-brainer. So run, Don’t meander, wander, amble, stroll, saunter, traipse, mosey, or tootle over to Wend’s website to sign up. This is too good of an opportunity to pass up. If TreeHugger were to publish ...
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Photo: Al Gore, Norwegian US Embassy . Will There Be A Movie This Time? Al Gore has just announced a new book titled Our Choice that will be a kind of sequel to An Inconvenient Truth. “An Inconvenient Truth reached millions of people with the message that the climate crisis is threatening the future of human civilization and that ...
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Lots to read in the New York Times over the last few days. Andrew Martin writes that food activists are thrilled with the new government: “This has never been just about business,” said Gary Hirshberg, chief executive of Stonyfield Farm, the maker of organic yogurt. “We are here to change the world. We dreamt for decades of having this ...
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Images by Jim Wark from a Field Guide to Sprawl I thought I knew a lot of these terms from my days in architecture and development, but there is a whole new vocabulary out there, catalogued by Dolores Hayden in her book A Field Guide to Sprawl. Above is an "Alligator" - "Real estate that eats money – for ...
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If you're in Chicago on Saturday, March 21st, we have a great event for you to attend. From 5:30 to 9 pm at Connect Chicago , Sara Snow - a favorite eco warrior of ours - will be talking about Green Living and signing advanced copies of her book Fresh Living: The Essential Room-by-Room Guide to a Greener, Healthier ...
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Photo via Fujistu Fujitsu opened up online sales today for the world's first color e-reader. The device, called FLEPia, looks pretty slick! ... Originally posted here: World's First Color e-Reader Launched By Fujitsu
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Photo credit: Dream Village Dream Village didn't waste any time using the $10,000 grant it won to create its series of children's books, which are aimed at teaching kids about social, economic, and environmental issues. Plus, the fledgling company plans to donate at least 50 percent of its proceeds to a charity selected by its readers via its interactive ...
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Learn More About the Most Destructive Project on Earth In the Globe and Mail , Alanna started her review of Tar Sands , a book by Andrew Nikiforuk, with: "Canada has no cohesive energy policy. Nor does it have a cohesive environmental policy. Put the two together, and you get the tar sands of Alberta, in all their hideous ...
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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 ...
