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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Images from abandonedchairsblogspot.com : Queen West There is something so forlorn and sad about a chair abandoned on the roadside. Innocent and sometimes beautiful, it is hard to resist taking them home and giving them a reason to live again. Some artists have been having the same problem. Moira Stevenson had filled up her Toronto front porch with rescued ...
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Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in ...
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photo via 350.org Big props to David Letterman for bringing on Bill McKibben earlier this week to talk to Letterman's 4 million nightly viewers about global climate change and Bill's 350.org project . 350.org has a savvy campaign to get the White House to put solar panels back on the roof after Ronald Reagen had them taken off in ...
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photo via 350.org Big props to David Letterman for bringing on Bill McKibben earlier this week to talk to Letterman's 4 million nightly viewers about global climate change and Bill's 350.org project . 350.org has a savvy campaign to get the White House to put solar panels back on the roof after Ronald Reagen had them taken off in ...
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Image: MSN.com I'm admitting it: I have a great big dude crush on Mark Ronson . The British musician/producer has put together some of the best pop music the world's heard in a while, and I can't DJ a party without spinning his recut of Britney Spears' Toxic (with Tiggers, ODB, and the Daptones horn section). Ronson's upcoming release, ...
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TreeHugger has reviewed many different, greener things to do with our bodies after we have shuffled off the mortal coil, from freeze-drying to composting . Now an English company offers a new option: Have your ashes pressed into vinyl record albums. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Live On From Beyond The Groove: ...
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Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow's Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous musicians and one of the world's biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building ...
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photo: ((brian)) via flickr Unless you've just started following environmental issues you're probably aware that biodiversity is declining so much that the planet is seeing species go extinct at a rate a thousand times historical rates of extinction--and that we're collectively not do a very good job preventing human activity from accelerating that. Is part of the problem is ...
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photo: ((brian)) via flickr Unless you've just started following environmental issues you're probably aware that biodiversity is declining so much that the planet is seeing species go extinct at a rate a thousand times historical rates of extinction--and that we're collectively not do a very good job preventing human activity from accelerating that. Is part of the problem is ...
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Image courtesy of Sara Snow In early November three amazing Yoga teachers will gather alongside the Sea of Cortez to host a yoga retreat called Pranic Oasis at the Racho Buena Vista resort in Cabo San Lucas. One of these is Prana Flow instructor, Coral Brown. Last week I spoke by phone with Coral to learn about her beginnings ...
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photo: Graham Racher via flickr Go chimps, go! An interesting new paper in the journal Primates documents how a group of chimpanzees in Bossou, Guinea have been successfully deactivating snares set by human bushmeat hunters. Though not always successful, ...
Image credit: MASONS via The Telegraph From police on Vectrix electric scooters to cycling proficiency courses for cops , the British police are clearly willing to think outside the box when it comes to more efficient, and effective, transportation. ...
