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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Photos: Nikwax Nikwax is an outdoor company who understand it would be silly to soil their own nest. Nikwax make cleaning and proofing products for outdoor clothing and equipment, but who would buy them if the mountains, moors and meadows were degraded and polluted? Nikwax recently released their 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report, which showcases the effort they've ...
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Photos: Osprey We've discussed Osprey packs in the past, particularly their Resource collection of packs with about 80% recycled content (see links below). Recently, we noted via SNEWS that they'd released their 2009 Sustainability Report, indicating the environmentally and socially responsible endeavours they have been pursuing. Contained within the report are some green actions that aren't the usual run-of-the-mill ...
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Photo via Time As you may know, everyone's favorite airline-owning-yet-green-leaning hotshot British entrepreneur kick-started another initiative aimed at reducing carbon emissions last year. Richard Branson 's Carbon War Room was designed to connect industry leaders with scientists and sustainability consultants to help slash emissions efficiently and profitably. The famed investor spoke ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See ...
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Voyageur Boardroom. Image credit: Ocean Meetings . Writing for TreeHugger, I see dozens of 'green product' press releases per day. Many from big-name ad agencies. Yesterday there was one touting an " ecologically sustainable" double-barreled veeblefetzer (actual product name withheld to protect the innocents). By inference, there must exist sustainable products which are less "ecological." Not sure which would ...
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Image: Courtesy of Seventh Generation Anyone interested in starting a green business or greening an existing business, or who simply needs a dose of optimism about the role that ethics and sustainability play in today's corporate world, should read the The Responsibility Revolution . In less than 200 pages, Seventh Generation co-founder Jeffrey Hollander and editorial director Bill Breen, ...
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This commentary is by Marian Hopkins of Business Roundtable. In September of 1969, while speaking at a conference in Seattle, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson had an idea. Why not have one day every year where Americans could come together and deliver an unmistakable message to policymakers - the environment matters, we care about it and we want to do ...
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Photo: Herbi Ditl (Flickr) Thanks to a tough gorilla marketing campaign and unrelenting online social media protests, the recent Nestle-vs-Greenpeace firestorm is getting interesting, with Nestle backpedaling, fast. Nestle's latest public relations disaster over its use of unsustainable palm oil in its candy bars - sourced from rapidly-disappearing Indonesian rainforests - took a strange turn t... Read the full ...
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Photo via LGEPR LG Group in South Korea has announced a plan to invest 20 trillion won (about $17.7 billion) in developing more environmentally friendly products. It's part of the company's plan to cut their carbon footprint by 40% against 2009 levels by 2020. However, LG has not had a very good track record in being honest about their ...
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Image: Jo Swinson, MP There is a law, but you wouldn't know it to look at the Easter displays. After some years of watching diverging regulation develop in Member States, the EU passed the Directive 94/62/EC , on packaging and packaging waste. In a nutshell (or is that a plastic-lined cardboard clamshell?), the law requires that each Member State ...
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Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they're purchasing power from coal-powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources. That's why it's a little ironic - or perhaps incredibly sly - that Facebook is going to air the much awaited Earth Days documentary before the film even hits ...
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Image via Yanko Design A new concept design by Lee Ju Won is the ultimate middle man. It sticks to a window to harness the power of the sun to run LEDs that provide light to potted plants that ...
Photo via Designboom The Retroreflector Tie by Jasna Sokolovic and Noel O'Connell is a somewhat subtle fashion statement for the safety-minded cyclist. And it is one of thousands of entries in Designboom's Seoul Cycle Design Competition 2010. For this ...
