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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Ice fishing on Pemigewasset Lake in New Hampton, New Hampshire Image credit: Reuters. With employment rates down, Americans have more free time. Watching TV - allowing you to catch an ad every 12 minutes for stuff you can't afford - only begets Depression . No surprise, then, that sport fishing is gaining greatly in popularity. Related pleasures abound. Ice ...
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Photo credit: Women's Bean Project It all started with $500 worth of beans and a desire to help disenfranchised women break out of the cycle of poverty. Two decades later, the Women's Bean Project employs 40 chronically unemployed and impoverished women annually to make and package products such as bean-soup and chili mixes (including one made with certified-organic bea... ...
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photo Josh Sommers @ Flickr Land degradation is the decline in soil, water, and vegetation quality - the very things we depend on for life. For the first time scientists have used satellite pictures and GIS software to assess the degradation of land over the entire Earth. They found that from 1981-2003, 24% of the globes land surface has ...
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In an article published Friday in the New York Times, Kim Severson reports on how food manufacturers are moving away from using low-priced but high calorie corn syrup to sugar. The reason: customer perception. What, did you expect health and nutrition?... Read more here: Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: Which is sweeter for your diet?
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In the West, celebrity spokespeople need to worry about their bad behavior, lest they lose their endorsement deals . In China, celebrities need to start worrying about the things they're endorsing. Prompted by a slew of food safety scandals, the Chinese parliament has passed a sweeping food safety law that makes liable public personalities who endorse questionable products. ... ...
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Image credit: The Guardian New Market for Invasive Species The above photo may not look too appetising, but I have friends in the UK who won a blind bake-off in their local pub with Gray Squirrel Pasty. (OK - no jokes about English food please!) But it seems my friends may not be alone. According to the Guardian, more ...
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Grape warning sign on grocery store produce stand . Image credit: Moblog . When a grape lands on the kitchen floor, I expect my Black Lab to scarf it down: like any other people-food item she beats me to. But, when it's a grape, she mouths it and spits it out. Now, I'm almost as smart as she is, ...
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Image: Jenn Pentland With the recent hubub around the shortfalls of organic and local agriculture we think it's good to point out some of the "beyond organic" methods that farmers have adopted. It's no secret that organic agriculture has drifted from the original intent of the farmers that originally rejected the chemical-industrial system. The methods of growing described below ...
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Obama White House Veggie Garden to be Planted Food write... Read more: 'First Locavore' Michele Obama to Oprah: Veggie Garden Coming to White House Lawn
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The Liquor Control Board of Ontario was established in 1927 after Prohibition to do what its name says- control liquor consumption. 82 years later its mandate has evolved, and now its purpose is to make as much money as possible for the Government, turning it into one of the world's largest buyers of wine and liquor. It has been ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
