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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photo: Leo Freitas via flickr Another good news update in the battle against deforestation in the Amazon : Greenpeace is hailing the announcement by four of the world's largest players in the cattle industry that they have committed to ban purchases of beef produced in newly deforested areas:... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here: Brazil's Beef ...
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photo: David Morimoto via flickr. A little bit late to the game, but glad they've arrived... The world's largest exporter of meat products, Brazil's JBS-Frisboi has pledged to no longer buy cattle raised from areas of the deforested Amazon which were cleared after September 23rd of this year, Excerpt from: World's Largest Meat Exporter Says No More Amazon Deforestation Beef
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Photos: Delcio G.P. Filho and Matthew Maaskant . Do you want more proof that encouraging car use in a city is only going to lead you to traffic hell? Take a look at Sao Paulo: the city of ridiculous car jams, where there are more privately held helicopters than anywhere else in the world . The thing is, not ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Useful Little Blood Suckers It goes to show that you never know where science is going to make its next discovery. Brazilian researchers were studying the repulsive (to me anyway -- maybe some of you think they're cuddly) Amblyomma cajennense... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: Tick Saliva May Cure Skin, Liver and Pancreas ...
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What's more of a trademark than YouTube's red bar that indicates a video's loading and play time? This campaign by Greenpeace Brazil from a few months ago took that symbol and used it to show how elements such as biodiversity, ocean levels, and extreme conditions react to the raise in temperatures. A simple yet powerful way to show s... Read ...
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Photo credit: ginnerobot Chocolate may be soul food, but skin food? The concept isn't as far-fetched as you might think. Packed with a raft of wrinkle-battling antioxidants--twice as much as that in red wine and up to three times those found in green tea, according to a 2003 Cornell University study --the decadent dessert is said to boost complexions ...
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Photo via MiguelVieira Despite the fact that logging rates in the Amazon skyrocketed in June , the figures put out by the Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that it looks like 2008-2009 was a great year for the rainforests, with logging rates dropping 46%. Could this rate - as ...
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Images via Po-Zu How can a pair of Wellington boots save the rainforest I hear you ask? Well let me tell you about Po-Zu's new Well boots, yes that's Well for Wellington - geddit? Launching as the stars of Po-Zu's A/W 09 collection the Well boots are being produced in collaboration with the super chic Brazilian brand Amazon Life ...
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Here is an interesting idea from Brazilian Architectural firm Forte, Gimenes & Marcondes Ferraz, that was apparently produced for Wallpaper* magazine and shown in Arch Daily . You will never get bored with the Tic-Tac house; you just move the components around to suit your mood, the climate and your needs.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: Tic-Tac ...
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image: Egeu Laus via flickr It's been over a year since Brazil's former environment minister Marina Silva resigned her job , after butting heads with other members of government more intent on economic development at all costs than preserving her country's natural capital. Now, Silva has quit her political party, paving the way for a presidential bid, The Guardian ...
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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 ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
