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: routeRANK website Available in Europe Only (For Now?) Many of us are familiar with sites like Google Maps, Mapquest, Yahoo! Maps, etc... They can provide driving directions, or even directions on how to take public transportation in the case of Google Transit . But routeRANK, a new European website, beats all of the others when it comes to ...
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Carbon reductions. Image credit: Governance Focus No 'Black Chippers' were included in the newly offered S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index (a pdf file). Good thing, because S&Ps decision to use a positive investment screen avoided all-out climate war with the high-carbon business elite . See below for details. From the S&P press release... Read the original: Standard & Poors Offers ...
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Photo credit: 9thirty Theater New York City's 9thirty Theatre Company dubs itself one of the country's first "eco-theaters." In founding artistic director Jeff Burroughs' own words, 9thirty's mission is to "cultivate creativity and artists as we work towards viable solutions for a sustainable future." For the week of April 22 to 25, in celebration of Earth Day, 9thirty will ...
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Reuters In slowdown and stimulus, easier breathing? In this economic downturn, few green linings could be as exciting as a cleaner China. It was the recession that Chinese leaders partially credited for helping the country reach its Five Year Plan pollution goals for the first time in 2008. Meanwhile, energy consumption has been on the decline (though it rose ...
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Image credit: Libra Rising , Centaur, Art and Myth: a pictorial The last sighting of this beast was during US Congressional testimony, during 2008:- Mythical Hybrid Beast To Battle Climate Change . Recent news indicates a growing interest in co-locating wind turbines and large scale solar thermal plants with fossil-fueled electricity generators. See below for an excerpt from the ...
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Creative Commons: DaveTrainer In the UK and Canada, manufacturers are urging the government to give consumers money to get old cars off the road and into newer, lower emission vehicles and "catalyse a new low carbon transport revolution." George Monbiot calls it "bunkum" and worse. The whole thing is worth reading, but his conclusion is damning: Every pound we ...
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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 ...
