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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Two of photographer Antonio Briceño's diptych portraits from Rwanda. Photos via Art Works for Change . The head of a cooperative of honey harvesters, a park guide, and a doctor who uses a garden of medicinal plants to treat asthma and other ailments are among the key "puzzle pieces" in preserving Rwanda's biodiversity while providing its people with suff... ...
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photo: Chany Crystal via flickr Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there's also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of indigenous people as international financiers, corporations and timber companies ...
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photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr Here's an interesting wrinkle on the ongoing effort to slow Amazon deforestation: Reuters reports that even though tree-felling is indeed slowing , the area of land being burned by farmers is actua... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Hidden From Satellites, Amazon Burning Continues Even As Deforestation Slows
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The video above, courtesy TckTckTck , explains one of the under-the-radar issues that was present all through the COP15 talks and now is re-emerging at the Bonn climate talks. In short, "A handful of developed nations like Japan, Australia and Germany are playing all... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Rich Nations Want Huge Logging Loophole, While Telling Poor to ...
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Though they may look like forests at first glance, palm oil plantations often have far lower biodiversity and store far less carbon than the genuine forests they replace. Photo: Achmad Rabin Taim via flickr. One more story making the rounds last week that you may have missed in the midst of all the continued oil gushing in the Gulf ...
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FutureMark Paper customers include Old Navy, Every Day with Rachel Ray magazine, and Anthropologie. Image courtesy of futuremarkpapers.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . We all have our favorite magazines. For some it's Vogue , for others, Mother Jones . But eco-aware readers often struggle with a conscience... Read the full story on ...
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photo: Windell H. Oskay / Creative Commons Concerned about forest-destroying palm oil ? You can now rest a little easier. The world's largest food and drinks conglomerate, Nestlé has pledged to stop using palm oil linked to rainforest destruction. Monitoring the commitment, The Forest Trust will ensure that no products come from companies th... Read the full story on ...
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Photo via the Land Coalition Palm oil production has long been a contentious issue and a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the oil's renewable source and application as biofuel make it an appealing alternative, but on the other, some of the most See original here: Brazil Announces Plan For Sustainable Palm Oil
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image: Yale e360/WWF There's a reason Indonesia is the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter and this is far and away the biggest part: Yale e360 highlights a new report produced by some of the biggest names in environmental activism that shows how 40-55% of Indonesia's logging is done illegally, and often from protected forest areas. At the same time, a ...
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CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar 's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of scientists discussing the film and its "powerful environmental messages and impact." The event ... Read the full story on ...
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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 ...
