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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The design blogs are agog that on the 125th anniversary of the registration of the first woman architect, Architect Barbie has been introduced. She arrives after a campaign by architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, who staged her own Architect Barbie exhibition in 2007. ( PDF here ) One could argue that she should be wearing more black, have round glasses ...
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Photo: Alex Davies At TreeHugger, we've got a bit of a thing for good wood furniture: tables, chairs, shelves and other pieces that are beautiful and built to last. A few weeks back, I wrote about Olivier Dollé, whose furniture evokes the trees that are the source of the wood he uses. Now I give you the work of ...
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Photo: Ute Decker Twenty jewellers signed up this week (on Valentine's Day) to sell the world's first Fairtrade and Fairmined certified gold. A new partnership between the Fairtrade Foundation and the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) will provide certified gold. A Bolivian mining co-operative, Cotapata , is the first to be certified but more mines in Peru and Colombia ...
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French designer Jean-Marie Massaud's "Green Islands." Image: Offecct . It won't quite replace the feeling of lying on the grass underneath a big shade tree, but office workers and others needing a respite in the middle of the day would likely welcome a Swedish design firm's concept for a "green island" that brings a bit of the great outdoors ...
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Image credit: Susan Serra , CKD, used under Creative Commons license. TreeHugger was founded as a sustainable design blog. From Alan Chochinov's 10 steps for sustainable design , through Yves Behar's predictions for sustainable design in 2011 , to the classic d... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to see the original: Is Sustainable Design Wearing Thin?
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Image: Angell Wyller Aarseth Kitchens these days are filled with more and more gadgets, designed to save time, to make things easier, from chopping to frying to cleaning. It's a trend that Norwegian design studio Angell Wyller Aarseth is fighting against with their debut project, the Handle Me cookware collection, presented this week at the Meet My Project design ...
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Photo credit: Daniel Loewe. Project: Svala Imagine your dress becomes your means of transportation! This was the briefing the students at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Barcelona received from BMW . The result are 5 concepts for future mobility in cities like Barcelona , that result from morphing fashion with transport design. Great to see that all ...
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Photos: Nicolas Scordia, J.P. Cervel, via OlivierDollé.com There's something great about wood furniture- it's solid, aesthetically pleasing, and has a lot of green potential, if it comes from reclaimed or sustainable sources . French designer and architect Olivier Dollé has come out with a line of wood furnishings that help remind us exactly where the wood they're made of ...
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Photo Credit: Eric Ryan Anderson When Jeremy Lyman and Paul Schlader wanted to open a café in New York City called Birch Coffee, they felt it needed to be more than just another place that served a warm cup of Joe. Their desire was to create a community around sustainable food and beverages and be a "simple yet special ...
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Speakers at Conversations in Design, credit IDS Crowdsourcing, or "tapping talent from the crowd" is a controversial subject in the design community. Some think it to be evil, a way of getting a lot of ideas for free. One critic ranted that crowdsourcers "have managed to figure out a way to get thousands of people -- some skilled enough ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
