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 credit: charmcitygavin /Flickr Sesame Street , Jim Henson's educational masterpiece, has been teaching curious learners for 40 years. Among the well known songs about the alphabet and numbers were segments with strong environmental... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Sesame Street's Top 10 Environmental Videos (Slideshow)
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Al Gore was in fighting trim at Greenbuild, speaking to 28,000 people who flew in from all over the country to learn about and celebrate green design. While his presentation was a bit wooden, the content was golden: "We still have a climate crisis, an economic crisis and a national security crisis ... they are united by the thread ...
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Humane Society President Wayne Parcelle, Designer Charlotte Ronson, Cool vs. Cruel competition winner Ingrid Bergstrom-Kendrick at the Bowery Hotel, NYC. Credit: Emma Grady Designers Charlotte Ronson , Victoria Bartlett , Elizabeth Olsen , fashion photographer Nigel Barker , and Papermag's Mickey Boardman came out to support the Humane Society of the United States' (HSUS) 5th Annual See the original ...
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Photo via Rolling Stones Lyrics What's the correlation between good, quality rock music and worldwide oil supplies? They both peaked around the same time, according to Overthinking It , and they both illustrate what occurs when you're using something up from a limited pool--crude oil stores in one case, and musical ideas in the other. Have we run out ...
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An abandoned oil well (left) and a fisherman in an oil village, both in Baku, Azerbaijan. Photos by Rena Effendi via Getty Images . Boosters of the Nabucco pipeline project tout the economic and political clout it will bring to Turkey. But where there are winners, there are also often losers -- as Rena Effendi 's powerful photojournalism makes ...
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Credit: Photo left via fortheladies.com ; photo right via The New York Post Brad Pitt 's smashing good looks had us at hello back in the days of Legends of the Fall , but it's his environmental and charitable work that has us head over our vegan heels in love -- from the Make It Right foundation and his ...
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Global Green Award Winners: Dr. George Campbell Jr., Mindy Lubber, Peter Darbee, Matt Petersen, Bonnie Reiss, and Sebastian Copeland "Mr. Obama -- Tear down this carbon!" news presenter Miles O'Brien demanded in his speech at the Global Green Sustainable Design Awards last night in New York City, before an audience of benefactors and green luminaries. His reference to Reagan's ...
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Global Green Award Winners: Dr. George Campbell Jr., Mindy Lubber, Peter Darbee, Matt Petersen, Bonnie Reiss, and Sebastian Copeland "Mr. Obama -- Tear down this carbon!" news presenter Miles O'Brien demanded in his speech at the Global Green Sustainable Design Awards last night in New York City, before an audience of benefactors and green luminaries. His reference to Reagan's ...
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Amber Valletta named honorary board member for IFAW. Credit: IFAW Actress Amber Valletta and legendary Broadway director Hal Prince join the International Fund for Animal Welfare ( IFAW ) as honorary board members--along with Leonardo DiCaprio , Pierce Brosnan , and Ben Stein. They bo... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here: Hal Prince and Amber Valletta ...
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Image: TradeMe Bullshit Bust Pokes Kiwi Minister A manure sculpture of New Zealand agricultural minister Nick Smith has sold on the Kiwi auction site TradeMe . The sculpture by artist Sam Mahon, who traditionally works in bronze, immortalizes Mahon's opinion that Nick Smith has not taken sufficient action to protect New Zealand waters from pollution by agricultural run-off. How ...
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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 ...
