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 via cytech Intel has given a lot of lip service to reducing the carbon footprint of the IT industry. Thankfully, the company is walking the walk as well - and taking big strides. The progress includes cutting its overall carbon footprint by 24% in 2009, and trimming its energy use by 9% during the same year - equating ...
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Mongstad industrial area at night. Photo Tøssekaien via flickr . The Norwegians have been big supporters of carbon capture and storage, and the government helped get the public to go along with building of a gas-fired plant near an existing oil refinery in Mongstad partly by promising the new facility would have carbon capture. Norwegians generally consider themselves to ...
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Photo via Freefoto.com Guest blogger Caroline Chisholm, head of marketing and communications globally for Earthwatch Institute , a non-profit organization dedicated to a sustainable environment, is swimming the English Channel in August to raise funds for Earthwatch initiatives. You may think that because I work in PR, I am prone to exaggeration. But when I said I wasn't much ...
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The most eco-friendly material to make furniture is probably the one we don't use (no material, no ecological footprint so to say)... so what about air? We have featured a series of inflatable items, such as inflatable solar panels , an inflatable house or glowing inflatable furniture , because the simple fact that they use a minimum amount ... ...
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Image from stuckattheairport.com A lot of hot air is being spent over the paper towels versus hand dryers debate. James Dyson, British super-star inventor of the Airblade hand dryer is up in arms. Apparently Kimberly-Clark, the U.S. paper towel and Kleenex manufacturer, claim that new research confirms that hand jet air dryers increase the amount of bacteria on our ...
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Maybe not as radical as square watermelons , but still quite progressive is Andrew Kim's square Coke bottle design . It definitely raised the question whether or not all bottles and containers should be square from an environmental point of view. Of course aesthetics, identity and function are also important, but it's surprising how much we could lower the ...
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Images via Granola There's a plethora of programs that help you trim the power consumption of your computer by switching how quickly it goes into sleep mode, timed shut-downs and so on. But what about while we're using the computer? For many of us, our computers are far more powerful than we really need them to be - especially ...
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Image via Mykl Roventine It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses , and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use , which adds up to a significant amount ...
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Image via Mykl Roventine It seems like just yesterday that we went round and round about how much energy a typical Google search uses , and what kind of carbon footprint that equates to. The use of our computers and data centers adds up to a significant amount of electricity use , which adds up to a significant amount ...
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Photo via Patrick H~ We're seeing it more and more with big companies - they're telling their suppliers to start tracking their footprints. It's part of a must-have business strategy for companies facing an economy that more and more revolves around carbon footprints. If a company can't see the footprints of its suppliers , it can't accurately measure its ...
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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 ...
