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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Buckminster Fuller made his Dymaxion houses round because they were aerodynamic and because a circular house encloses more floor area for a given amount of perimeter material. According to the Ottawa Citizen , people are still doing it, for much the same reasons. But instead of aluminum, Laurie Murray and George Kerr built theirs out of cordwood, a very ...
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Canada's Minister of the Environment, Jim Prentice, is a history buff. He has a particular interest in HMS Investigator , which sank in 1854 after getting stuck in the ice for three years, and which was found just last week by Parks Canada archaeologists. Prentice told the Calgary Herald: "This is one of the most important shipwrecks in Canadian ...
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photo: Franco Folini via flickr Even though it often seems that even mentioning climate change or pricing carbon on a national basis is an utter nonstarter, here's another example of how states aren't waiting for the Feds to get their act together: The Sacramento Bee reports on progress with the Western Climate Initiative . Specifically, California and 10 ... ...
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Photo via Dominion Paper Well, here's one bit of good news from the US government in an otherwise severely depressing one. It doesn't make up for the fact that Democrats have killed any hope of a climate bill this year, but it does give some semblance of hope to those who oppose efforts to pipe the world's dirtiest oil ...
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Photo via Dominion Paper Well, here's one bit of good news from the US government in an otherwise severely depressing one. It doesn't make up for the fact that Democrats have killed any hope of a climate bill this year, but it does give some semblance of hope to those who oppose efforts to pipe the world's dirtiest oil ...
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Photo: Government of Ontario Always Read the Fine Print When the rebates for plug-in hybrids and electric cars were first announced by the government of Ontario , there was no word on how many applicants would be accepted, and the size of the rebates was aid to be between $4,000 and $10,000 (depending on the capacity of the car's ...
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Image: Greencolander, Flickr In April 2009, it became illegal to sell or apply pesticides for cosmetic lawncare in Ontario, Canada. It seems like a no-brainer risk versus benefits analysis: the benefit is ...hmmm, just cosmetic...while the risks are real, documented, and pervasive. But somehow the allure of a green, weed-free lawn keeps conquering rationality. A year later, does the ...
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Wood River Refinery, now connected directly to Alberta Yesterday the valve was turned, opening the Keystone Pipeline. The converted natural gas pipeline ships 435,000 barrels of Alberta tar sands crude each day to Conoco-Phillips' refinery in Wood River, Illinois. Some have called it an "environmental Armageddon"; TransCanada Pipelines disagrees, saying in the Globe and Mail: ... Read the full ...
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photo: Read the original: Canadian Tar Sands Corp Found Guilty of Killing 1600 Ducks in Toxic Tailing Pond
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Photo credit: Ryan Hill Wade Davis might have the most amazing job on the planet. Trained as an anthropologist and ethnobotonist, he's lived among some of the most remarkable cultures of the world and been witness to (and participant in) many moments that no outsider has ever seen. Davis has written scores of books, but is probably best known ...
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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 ...
