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 Jessica.Tam @ Flickr A single college or university can produce an almost immeasurable amount of waste each year -- and when you multiply that by all of the schools in the country, and the world, those numbers add up. But some schools are taking their conservation efforts beyond recycling bins and CLF bulbs with everything from on-campus ...
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Reality shows have taken over television, like a virus or a breath of fresh air, depending on your perspective. And we're about to add to that mix with Garbage Moguls . But first, I'd like to pay homage to Planet Green . Love it or lump it, it has done more, earlier than any other media outlet to bring ...
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Image: Thilo Folkerts With electronic reader gadgets like the Kindle changing the way we read, could good ol' fashioned books become an endangered species of sorts? Either way, there's still nothing quite like the living and tactile experience of seeing, touching and smelling the pages of real book. "Long live the book," we say -- a sentiment that's reflected ...
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Image Courtesy of R. Drake, via Wikipedia Howard Weamer first visited Yosemite National Park in 1971 to do research for his doctoral thesis, on John Muir . In 1974, the Yosemite Association hired its first winter hut keeper to staff the Ostrander Ski Hut in the park's backcountry. We... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: "Winters of ...
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Photo via Love the Earth Film Musician Imogen Heap announced plans to create and score a nature documentary -- with a twist: She's asking fans to shoot their own footage of the world around them and submit it. "It could be a sunrise from your bedroom window, underwater deep sea diving, a flower in a pavement crack, mist over ...
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Photo by Cofrin Library We love seeing the ways the environmental movement alters mainstream culture, and the degree of its impact can be viewed quickly by just taking a look at the dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary is no slouch on keeping up with new words created in every corner from clean tech to the DIY movement -- like ...
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Image credit: Planet Green Dare to dream. When I was a little kid, I used to hear it all the time. Dare to dream. You can be a lawyer or a doctor or even the President of the United States. I dared to dream. And I became me. Hahahahahaha. Sometimes though, if you dare to dream, things can work ...
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Avatar's Home Tree Initiative heading to six continents. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox James Cameron already planted one million trees in Brazil last April. But the director has said Earth needs at least a billion more trees -- not a million, and he's enlisting 15 more countries to follow his lead, including the U.S. That's not all he's ...
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Disaster strikes as massive quantities of oil reach their intended destination. The Onion Yes, the Onion, America's finest news source, is consistently hilarious. But even it is rarely this biting, this trenchant -- and this right on. Check out its lead story today , about the massive disaster that occurred when a huge oil tanker didn 't crash, and ...
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Image: Macro-Sea and Vamos Architects (via NYT ) Last year's Dumpster pool parties of Brooklyn have made it to the big time: Park Avenue in New York. For the first three Saturdays of August, three of these pools -- repurposed dumpster bins that have been cleaned, lined and filled with water -- are making an appearance on the east ...
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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 ...
