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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Please, people, start eating those Canada Geese! Image credit Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife Two years ago, Sami asked Are Invasive Species Ethical Food? In The Way We Eat- Why Our Food Choices Matter , Peter Singer thought it was OK to dumpster dive for meat, since it was already dead and would otherwise be wasted. Does the ...
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From raising awareness of how North Sea Fisheries throw half their catch back dead to convincing a supermarket giant to switch to sustainable tuna , Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's Fish Fight campaign is creating massive interest in the issue of sustainable fishing. But, while I was initially impressed with the fact the campaign was acknowledging the complexity of the issue and ...
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Photo: channel 4 The week of fishy t.v. started off with national treasure, chef and writer Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's show . In his charming and intelligent way he has spearheaded a campaign called "Fish Fight" in response to the "insane waste" caused by North Sea fishermen throwing... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: The Fish Fight Continues with ...
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Fish fry. Image credit: Wikpedia , by Jon Sullivan. As all you corporate types know, for a business to succeed over the long term it must have define - up and down the value chain - how 'progress' will be measured: going far deeper than ROCE, cash flow, or profit. Having a supply chain metrics are equally or more ...
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Image credit: bandita , used under Creative Commons license. Food waste is a serious issue. And while schemes ranging from biojet fuel made from organic trash to mandatory food waste collection might help divert that waste to a good use, it would be much better if it was never thrown out in the first place. Now researc... Read the ...
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Image credit: The Urban Conversion From backyard slaughter to urban bees TreeHugger is more than familiar with the idea of growing food in the cities where we live. On Wednesday I posted about a video tour of a serious aquaponics project in Denver, Colorado . It turns out that this video was part of an o... Read the full ...
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Image credit: Benjamin Fahrer From a sneak peak at industrial-scale composting to my musings on composting as animal husbandry , I have been known to get more than a little excited about both the theory and practice of recycling our organic waste. But the video below from Esalan Gardens, featuring footage of diggers turning huge piles of steaming compost ...
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Image credit: Topsham Ales Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has long been a staple of the local/sustainable food scene. More recently, we've seen the model applied to everything from a Community Supported Kitchen to a grain-growing... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest here: Community Supported Beer: Cooperative Brewing, Baking and Farming for Local Economies
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Image credit: Compassion in World Farming When I reported on a planned 8,100 cow super-dairy in the UK , I noted that many dairy farmers were concerned that these industrial-scale operations would expose the public to the fact that even most smaller dairy farms in the country keep their cows indoors for 5 or 6 months of the year. ...
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Image: Hometta The modern gingerbread house industry looked so promising a few years ago; I eagerly followed every launch. But this year, it seems to have tanked as deeply as the modern construction industry. I would have thought that, along with the tiny house and shedworking movements, gingerbread would thrive in tough times; they are small, relatively economical and ...
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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 ...
