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
published November 19, 2009 and has No Comments
The CEO of Zerofootprint , Ron Dembo, is a man who has often written and been written about on TreeHugger. Now it looks like this outspoken man is ready to let the world's power plugs start speaking for themselves. Zerofootprint, his energy and carbon management firm, has broken into the hardware world with TalkingPlugs, a system that includes devices ...
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This weekend, San Francisco held Green Festival, the nation's largest green consumer living event. Over 40,000 people packed into the Concourse Exhibition Center to see over 350 businesses, artists, nonprofits, and over 125 speakers and musicians for a weekend of all things green. It was jam packed, and ever time I thought I saw it all, I turned a ...
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Editor's note: This guest post was written by Paul Shapiro, senior director of the Humane Society of the United States' factory farming campaign. Reducing our Global Food -Print When we think about minimizing our contributions to climate change, we may consider switching our light bulbs, driving less, buying local, and more. These are all important and laudable ways to ...
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Image credit: 10:10 Campaign The 10:10 Campaign has been receiving massive attention in the UK, signing up everyone from government ministers to major corporations with pledges to cut their own CO2 emissions 10% by 2010. It almost won a vote in parliament to reduce the entire country's emissions by 10% too. So you'd think think they'd be pleased when ...
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Image credit: Saint Julia of Corsica, found on DeaconLaz.org (artist unknown) When I posed the question of whether leading by green example can be passive aggressive preaching , I was surprised when commenter Joey claimed that I had eluded that I was a "member of a religion." To me environmentalism is anything but a matter of faith, but rather ...
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Image credit: South Park / Comedy Central As I noted in my post on The Art of the Eco-argument , we're often better off leading our own lives than telling others how to lead theirs. In fact, if eco-snobbery is left unchecked , it could lead to a major backlash against the environmental movement. But, having recently noted some ...
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Images by Tim Mitchell The Ministry of Trying to Do Something About It sounds like a fantastical invention that's just flown straight out of a Harry Potter novel, but in fact it's a collaboration between the excellent New Economics Foundation and inspiring artist Read more: Carbon Ration Books Issued by The Ministry Of Trying To Do Something About It
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Image credit: Hopenhagen.com This guest post by Laurie David is the first in a series of articles we'll publish from the Hopenhagen movement . We are in much worse shape now than anyone could have anticipated, but we've also never been closer to rallying the world leaders to solving the problem of global warming once and for all. But ...
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Image credit: Chelsea Bay - with thanks! I'll admit to being a little nervous about writing this post. As a foreigner, it's rarely wise to start bashing your host country, especially when you genuinely love it as I do. But having written my expatriate treatise on 5 Green Things I Love About America , I thought I should keep ...
Read more...published October 27, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo via Robert S Donovan It doesn't take inventing a whole lot of new technology to save a whole lot of GHGs. It just take a whole lot of people utilizing the simple, inexpensive technologies we already have rolling out that help cut down on energy consumption. If US consumers used existing technology to its fullest, we'd save a ...
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A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
How to grow tastier tomatoes and how to make food taste sweeter without sugar: just two amazing discoveries from a study of the chemical interactions underlying tomato flavor preferences Read the rest here: The Secrets of Tasty Tomatoes Discovered - Can ...
