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 April 19, 2009 and has No Comments
Kiddo taking the Clear2Go pledge at Green Apple Festival in Golden Gate Park Clear2Go, a sponsor of the Green Apple Festival , held a great event at Golden Gate Park. Bring in 6 plastic water bottles for recycling and get a free Clear2Go filtering water bottle. Not only did the booth bring in people of all ages to pledge ...
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Three new recycling bins at the Fujairah Women’s College in the United Arab Emirates. Photo via Experiencing the Emirates Plastic recycling is making inroads in Abu Dhabi, where a pilot program in the city of Al Ain that has students collecting and compressing up to 50,000 water bottles a month could be expanded nationwide next year, eventually encompassing up ...
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Photo credit: SIGG SIGG is going stainless...steel, that is. The popular reusable-beverage-container maker has launched a range of stainless-steel products . Dubbed "Steelworks," the line of bottles, thermoses, commuter mugs, and flasks—133 in all—targets a younger, male audience with what the company describes as an "art-deco, industrial look." Breaking with a century of tradition manufacturing its bottles in its ...
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For this Earth Day , you just might be resolving to ditch plastic bottles and instead use a quality reuseable water container. Kor One is hoping so anyway, and they're launching water bottles in specific colors, each of which helps out a specific water-related cause. ... Read the original post: Kor One Water Bottles Support Water Causes
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Image via: UC Berkeley News/Peg Skorpinski Ban the Bottle! Skip the Styrofoam! Pack Your Polycarbonate (Nalgene)! These are more than just empty slogans around Berkeley U, which has just taken additional steps to encourage students to frequent local water fountains on campus instead of purchasing plastic, disposable water bottles. The I Heart Tap Water Campaign i... The rest is ...
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Elizabeth Royte, who wrote the book on the evils of bottled water, (Bottlemania) , calls out Boxed Water as perpetuating a myth that boxed water is easier on the environment. ... Here is the original post: Elizabeth Royte Says Boxed Water Just As Bad As Bottled
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Photo credit: SIGG SIGG , the Swiss maker of those now-ubiquitous (and oh so au courant) aluminum and stainless-steel reusable bottles , has just announced a new coating technology for the inside of their stylish wares. Dubbed the EcoCare Liner, the new manufacturing process, as described by SIGG CEO Steve Wasik in a press release, is "not only a ...
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Photo via Joy and Revolution Might boxed water be a solution to bottled water for those who refuse to give up buying disposable containers of water? Boxed Water designer Benjamin Edgar thinks so.... See more here: Is Boxed Water a Solution to Bottled Water?
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GreenOps promotes recycling stations with plastic dresses trimmed in bottles. Photo: Roberta Cruger. Just when you thought it was time for bottled water to fizzle out, a slew of “new and improved” waters continue to hit the market, laced with vitamins and supplements to make you smarter, chilled out, buzzed, loved or lucky. At the Natural Products Expo in ...
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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 ...
