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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Winter floods always bring a rush of concern about the amount of water being "wasted" as it rushes out to the ocean. A serious problem with urban landscapes, particularly those on coastlines or near deltas, is that rainwater washes straight into storm drain systems and out to sea, rather than being soaked up by the soil and replenishing the ...
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Photo by AnnieGreenSprings via Flickr Creative Commons Dr. Gregory Stone, Senior Vice President and Chief Ocean Scientist for Conservation International, gave an inspiring TED talk during the Mission Blue Voyage called "Saving The Ocean, One Island at a Time" during which he explained how a new strategy for protecting Kiribati's waters could be scaled to fit many other areas ...
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Photo by John Talbot via Flickr.com. Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . It's a nice day, you're walking along and all of a sudden-- squish . You don't even have to look because you know you've really stepped in it. There's nothing quite like an encounter with a pile of poop to put ...
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Image: Worrell Water Technologies Enter the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on the Mexican border, and you'll never know just by looking around that you're walking through a "living machine" wastewater recycling system. But when installation is complete, a custom-designed system will treat and recycle wastewater on site, reducing "generation of wastewater and demand for ...
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"Lose the animals, lose the ecosystems. Lose the ecosystems, game over." Caroline Fraser touched down in more than a dozen countries to understand what rewilding really means. Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution looks at how this radical approach is being put to work, pulling endangered species back from the brink, relinking critical habitats, and keeping the ...
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photo: loco085 / Creative Commons In case the litany of separate studies showing how bad the ongoing extinction crisis the planet is undergoing, driven for all intents and purposes entirely by humans, really is haven't driven the point home: A new series of content from the Royal Society (h/t to Go here to see the original: We're Killing Everything, Including ...
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photo: Rodrigo Suriani / Creative Commons If you want a decent overview of all the issues that go into the pricing of solar power --from technological issues to comparisons with fossil fuels (when will solar power be less expensive than burning fossil fuels?)--a new piece over at View post: Is Asking When Solar Power Will Reach Grid Parity Addressing the ...
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Photo credit: me'nthedogs/Creative Commons The magnificent red deer stag know as the Emperor of Exmoor was shot and killed three weeks ago. This happened just a few days after his photograph appeared in national newspapers across the country. Who could resist a photo of such a magnificent stag. It turns out that trophy hunters had to have it; soon ...
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photo: Dmitry Krendelev / Creative Commons If that headline seems familiar, it's because it is: A new study, the most comprehensive of its kind, published in Science confirms that 20% of the world's vertebrate species are threatened with extinction. Which is undoubtedly bad news. However the research revealed some good news: Without the work already done on conservation, the ...
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photo: James Jordan / Creative Commons Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research , shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some... Read ...
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"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
