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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Many Gulf Coast residents' lives have been changed by the BP spill -- whether through lost jobs, health woes, marred property values, or otherwise. And while a cumbersome system has been put in place to pay out claims made by impacted residents, it by no means will right all the wrongs imparted upon the region over the course of the ...
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Environmentalists win some political battles too, you know. For instance, three of the biggest -- the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the League of Conservation Voters -- succeeded in rallying Democrats to reject a 'riders' that Republicans want to attach to the budget that would have rolled back the EPA's ability to take polluters to task. Glenn ...
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Fukushima #3 Photo credit: daveeza via Flickr / CC BY-SA After an accident in any high-profile industry that makes the public nervous, it's pretty common to see business interests, regulators, and public officials rush to assure everybody that the incident was a fluke, and that the power plants running elsewhere are safe, safe, safe. We saw it with the ...
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Graph via Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP's star witnesses -- a scientist who's been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, ...
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Dangerous chicken wire chemicals you need to know about. Image credit: Wikipedia Into the daylight. The fracking industry has declared it's ready to totally change direction from the course set by former VP Dick Cheney (which was to hide from the public, information about the hazardous characteristics of fracking fluids). As you read this, a fracking chemicals Read the ...
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Photo credit: Sharon Smith This guest post was written by Sharon Smith, author of The Young Activist's Guide to Building a Green Movement . Operating through political channels isn't a panacea for solving all of our environmental challenges, but it's certainly a critical part of the package. If you are frustrated with how your political system has failed to ...
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Photo credit: ^riza^ via Flickr / CC BY Oh politics. How inane thou art. Take this fun pack o' lies that keeps cropping up like clockwork every few years when gas prices rise: That if we'd just open up all of that sweet, sweet American coastline and heartland for drilling, prices at the pump would come tumbling down! Politicians ...
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Photo credit: langalex via Flickr / BY-SA We need to do something. Thus far, the legislative strategy that Democrats have used to advance climate policy has been disastrous. Where other major economies around the world are either passing laws to reign in carbon emissions (the EU) or dumping truckloads of cash into clean energy development (China), the US continues ...
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A Power Shift crowd in 2007. Photo credit: Power Shift/Sierra Club Our nation's capitol will soon receive a powerful infusion of young energy. From April 15-18, more than 10,000 young leaders will converge on Washington, DC, at Power Shift 2011 .... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: US Capitol to Receive a Powerful Infusion ...
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Photo Credit: laverrue via Flickr / CC BY In Cleantech, Anyhow Sort of has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Don't worry, the US is still the world's number one economic superpower -- though some analysts say we'll be taking a backseat to China in coming decades. But when it comes to clean energy, we've slipped even further ...
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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 ...
