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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Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce TreeHugger was one of the earliest sites to raise concern about endocrine disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A; we were loud in our support for the removal of polycarbonate bottles (an easy target as there are lots of alternatives) and for the elimination of BPA epoxies from tin cans . Treehugger was the ...
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Image: NASA , Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Barrel of Cure... Canada has the longest coastline in the world (well, unless you want to be clever and get into the coastline paradox ), touching three different oceans, and one of them (the Arctic) is seeing rapid increases in shipping and oil exploration because of the ...
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photo: Diane Worth / Creative Commons Considering the considerable official enthusiasm for the highly polluting and carbon intensive Alberta tar sands, this really isn't so surprising: According to correspondence obtained by the Pembina Institute , the Canadian Government is "pursuing an orchestrated strategy to undermine US effort to combat climate change" and partnered with polluters to fight US effort ...
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Photo credit: Eamon Mac Mahon Michael Pollan said in the Omnivore's Dilemma that if you eat industrially, you are made of corn. In Corporate Knights , "the magazine for clean capitalism", Toby A.A. Heaps picks up on this theme and looks at the causes and effects of corn's dominance, delivering "the skinny on what's expanding our waistlines and crippling ...
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photo: Nicholas Doumani / Creative Commons Just days after Syncrude was fined over C$3 million for Here is the original post: 350 More Ducks Killed In Canada's Toxic Tar Sands Tailing Ponds
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Photos: Natalie Purschwitz, Makeshift Project There's no shortage of people taking up year-long DIY eco-fashion challenges out there ( 365 days of the same little black dress ? Check. 365 days of upcycled dresses under a buck? Check). But with Vancouver designer Natalie Purschwitz's Makeshift Project , the DIY-365 ante was upped: f... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Photo: Steven Depolo , Flickr Effective immediately, the chemical Bisphenol A is officially considered toxic in Canada. BPA, as you're likely aware, is a chemical commonly found in plastics, food cans, water bottles, and paper receipts. BPA mimics the hormone estrogen and has been linked to a number of severe health woes, including breast cancer and early puberty in ...
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The commenters in our posts following the trial and introduction of the Double Down pointed out that a) it's a free country and b) at 550 calories there are a lot worse things out there. (The Washington Post claimed "it's almost health food" ) Now it is coming to Canada, somehow getting past the diligent Canadian Border Secu... Read ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC "women living in the areas with the highest levels of pollution were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer" A study recently published by researchers based in Montréal, Canada, has found a worrying correlation between markers for air pollution and breast cancer. The scientists used detailed historical air-pollution map tracking nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a ...
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Self portrait from Coupland.com The Globe and Mail publishes author and artist Douglas Coupland's 45 predictions for the future, and they include some real bummers. A few picks: 1) It's going to get worse No silver linings and no lemonade. The elevator only goes down. The bright note is that the elevator will, at some point, stop. 2) The ...
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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 ...
