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: Daily Galaxy So many gimmicky sustainability "challenges" have arisen during the mainstreaming of green over the last few years that I truly thought that I'd never want to hear about another one again. But Rodale's Plastic-Free February is an exception -- free of the pomp of No Impact Man-style displays and embracing of an important central conceit, we ...
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Tired of seeing similar reviews of the Chevrolet Volt ? Here's one for you by Gene Weingarten, a man who's definitely not a automotive journalist and who probably couldn't write a typical review even if he tried to. Some of you might remember Mr. Weingarten's best-known work : "his chronicling of a world-class violinist (Joshua Bell) who, as an ...
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A new green blog has come to town: Eco-Snobbery Sucks , which founder Jeffrey Davis started because, he said, "I was tired of seeing eco-snobbery turn both individual people and businesses away from living greener."... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Announcing a New Blog: Eco-Snobbery Sucks
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Yes, the composer of such children's song classics "Baby Beluga" and "Down by the Bay" is worried about future generations -- and rightfully so. As he writes in an essay for Child Honouring : Are we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of 7 billion in a ...
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Screenshot from YouTube Sure, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but sometimes a cat never leaves it at all. Last June, a litter of cats was born high up in the branches of a maple tree in Green County, Wisconsin -- and seven months later, one of those kittens still remains, apparently unwilling to face life on ...
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Photo: jmurawski , CC Factory Love Subculture Factories and power plants are not bad in themselves. Most produce useful things, and provide jobs and financial security to the people who work there and to shareholders (which are often large institutional investors like pension funds). But there are also big problems that need to be solved, like the negative side ...
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Photo: Wikimedia Commons After his most recent trip to the Sudan in an effort to draw attention to the war-torn nation, George Clooney came home with an unpleasant souvenir: malaria .... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: George Clooney Gets Malaria, the Green Set of "The Good Wife" and More
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Image via YouTube Zoe Weil is the president of Institute for Humane Education , a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a humane world through teaching principles of living a more meaningful life. In other words, we can create a sustainable, thriving world if we learn to better use our skills of integrity, compassion, healthful lifestyles and so on. While ...
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Last month, Catalan TV3 just aired a new documentary called " comprar, llençar, comprar" , meaning "to buy, to throw away, to buy" in Catalan, right on time for the christmas shopping and the winter sales which started this week. You can now watch the documentary in Spanish on RTVE (Spanish national TV). It tells the secret history of ...
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If you've seen the commercials that make up Chevron's new "We Agree" campaign , you might well be infuriated. Despite its refusal to take responsibility for dumping 16.8 million gallons of crude oil into the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1992, Chevron has a new self-image of a benevolent oil company. It supports small businesses, invests in renewable energy, fights AIDS, ...
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The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Here is the original: Super Efficient Water Heater is First New Product to Roll Off GE ...
The GeoSpring hybrid electric water heater is not only super-efficient, it's being manufactured in America at a plant that has lay idle for decades. Read more here: GE's New Hybrid Water Heater is Super Efficient—and Manufactured in America
