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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Image from Daily Mail With all the best intentions, most of us don't have the nerve to really change our life style dramatically. We do as much as we can within the limitations of our busy lives, but haven't the true grit to go that extra mile. Here are 3 inspirational stories of young families that are taking things ...
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Photo copyright ABC via popcrunch Ok, so you might not stop global warming , reduce your carbon footprint , or save endangered species if you tune into ABC's Lost . From a sentient island, to problems with space/tim... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: From Camping to Polar Bears: 7 Green Themes in ABC's Lost
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Screenshot via PNNL YouTube video A new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory entitled The Smart Grid: An Estimation of the Energy and CO2 Benefits has determined that the smart grid could cut carbon emissions by 12%, and could cut energy consumption by an equivalent amount. Looking at the direct mechanisms - including smart grid-enabled ...
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Image credit: NRDC With simple, inexpensive, changes in behavior, it is easy to cut our carbon footprints. On a personal level, these cuts can be significant, saving a ton or more of carbon annually. But on a larger scale, in the face of private jets and industrial agriculture , Original post: Are Personal Actions a One Billion Ton Opportunity?
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Images via AMEE The Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine, or AMEE, is an organization with an audacious goal: to track the energy footprint of everything on earth. It entails an enormous amount of work, from figuring out how to track it to actually aggregating the data. But the project is doing well, and AMEE has just launched a new tool ...
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Image credit: No Impact Project In 2007, Colin Beavan led his family into a year-long adventure that would change their lives. During the No Impact Experiment , the Beavan's challenged themselves to live, in the middle of New York City, without making a net impact on the environment. It required a lot of changes, and a few sacrifices, but ...
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Image Source: Lulu Vision Dear Pablo: I received my annual paper weight phone book today and I couldn't help but wonder about the millions of trees that are wasted each year on the yellow pages. In deed many of us have no need for the yellow pages (commercial listings) and white pages (residential listings) anymore. We have Blackberries and ...
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Photo via optical illusion A new nationwide survey by Tiller Research LLC has found good green news for the new year. Over half of the American population will likely make an environmentally-focused New Year's resolution. The survey found that 53% of respondents are vowing to put the planet first in at least one way - that's up from 49% ...
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Image courtesy of americanapparel.net . Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. American Apparel is known for sex-charged ads and made-in-America product , but aside from their locally-made goods, their green side is a little lack-luster. Organic cotton might seem like the obvious way to improve sustainability... Read the full ...
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In the final installment of our Pop!Tech Pop Quiz experiment, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill sits down with behavioral economist Dan Ariely, subjecting him to our Yes/No/Maybe harassment. Ariely's book, Predictably Irrational , reflects his years of (often devilishly clever) research dissecting the way we weigh ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See more here: Pop!Tech Pop Quiz: Dan Ariely, ...
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Image credit: Grist Pig business is not an easy documentary to watch. First of all, the images of the inner workings of pig farms and slaughterhouses can turn the stomach of even the most steadfast meat-eater. Second, and more ...
Photos via the BBC It's one of the (if not the ) rarest flower in the world: the Middlemist's Red exists in only two known locations: a greenhouse in the UK, and a garden in New Zealand. Imported to ...
