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: Wyoming: Upper Green River Valley /Flickr Natural gas "fracking" has become a contentious issue in the U.S., and now residents in four regions are getting the opportunity to talk about their concerns with the practice. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding four public information meetings (two have already happened) on "the proposed study of the ...
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photo: Joost J Bakker via flickr You'd have to be living in a cave since the beginning of the BP oil spill to not have heard, or made, statements about never letting this sort of environmental disaster happen again and kicking our oil addiction . There have even been checklists 50 items deep of ways you can use less ...
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For the radar: The Saudi Gazette reports King Abdullah has announced that the nation has stopped oil exploration on new fields to protect the petroleum supply for future generations.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original post: Saudis Stop New Oil Exploration to Prolong Petroleum Supply for Future Generations: King Abdullah
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Mountaintop removal mine in Kentucky, photo: iLoveMountains.org via flickr. One more item that probably would've made more headlines had there not been a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I know I missed it until now): As Solve Climate reports, the EPA has given approval to the first Originally posted here: EPA Approves First Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine ...
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As the BP oil spill moves from being a short and bloody battle to a long and drawn out war, I've personally have moved to from anger to trying to think more constructively, but here are two pieces of news which drag me right back to frustration: 1) In an Alabama wild... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the ...
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photo: Jaume Ventura via flickr Even though it's at the center of environmental thinking, the concept of sustainable development is pretty broad; and considering how often the term gets thrown around and invoked these days, perhaps a quick bit of clarity is in order. There's a textbook definition of sustainable development (as well as plenty of interpretations of that), ...
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Photo: Sydney City, via Energy Efficiency Council "The International Energy Agency estimates that energy efficiency will deliver 65 per cent of worldwide carbon cuts in the energy sector by 2020, and 54 per cent by 2030. This means that in 2020 energy efficiency could have almost twice the impact of renewable energy, nuclear power and clean coal combined." Such ...
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Hot on the heels of recent MIT survey showing that natural gas use in the US is set to double in the coming decades, an important counterpoint over at Yale e360 highlights some of the problems that transition will bring. At the center of it are the environmental consequences of Here is the original: Doubling Natural Gas Usage in US ...
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photo: Alex Proimos via flickr Even with all the serious doubts about its scalability or financial viability, carbon capture and storage repeatedly continues to get talked up as a key part of a future low-carbon energy economy. Adding to the practical issues swirling around CCS is this bit, from research just published in Nature Geoscience Original post: Geological Storage of CO2 ...
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photo: Read the original: Canadian Tar Sands Corp Found Guilty of Killing 1600 Ducks in Toxic Tailing Pond
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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 ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
