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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What's more of a trademark than YouTube's red bar that indicates a video's loading and play time? This campaign by Greenpeace Brazil from a few months ago took that symbol and used it to show how elements such as biodiversity, ocean levels, and extreme conditions react to the raise in temperatures. A simple yet powerful way to show s... Read ...
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It's got to be getting harder and harder to be a climate change skeptic these days. Just look at the Arctic. We already knew the Arctic was melting much faster than even scientists had predicted, and now we know this: humans have effectively reversed a cooling trend with greenhouse gas emissions, and the Arctic has reached the warmest temperature ...
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No Impact Man movie poster. Image via Ocilloscope Laboratories . The following is a guest contribution from Colin Beavan, author of the book No Impact Man and the blog of the same name. Last week, Elizabeth Kolbert, a respected New Yorker journalist who writes admirably about issues to do with our climate catastrophe and the environment, wrote a scathing... ...
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photo: Beth Rankin via flickr It's well known now that the US and China have had plenty of behind-the-scenes climate talks , but here's something really tantalizing: The New York Times View post: US-China Bilateral Climate Deal Likely in November, Senator Says
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Photo via Eyesplash Mikul @ flickr. Green power -- that is, power generated by renewable energy -- for residential use is widely available, but remains a bit perplexing to some. Typically, getting green power for your home means paying a little a extra on your utility bill or purchasing renewable energy credits. That money doesn't necessarily mean that when ...
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Photo via Outlook India It's yet another wrinkle in the heated climate talks between rich nations and developing ones: the latest UN report on developing nations' energy needs has found that in order for them to grow without contributing heavily to climate change, they're going to need at least a stunning $500 billion a year to do so. ... ...
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Industrial pollution is a significant contributor to Turkey's total CO2 emissions. Photo by rahims via Flickr. Despite low per-capita emissions, Turkey's population size and polluting power plants and industrial facilities make it one of Europe's top emitters of carbon dioxide, two Turkish academics recently reported. The news will likely be a rallying point for environmentalists gathering this weekend and ...
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Image via knowledge allianz If humans fail to act on reducing carbon emissions, then geoengineering could be our last hope --that's the finding of a recent paper published the Royal Society . While the report stresses that every possible effort must be made to reduce emissions, it outlines some of the more feasible experiments that could slow the earth's ...
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Graham Hill at Gel 2009 from Gel Conference on Vimeo . Video via: Read the full story on TreeHugger See the rest here: Graham Hill Shows How We Can Halve Our Emissions at GEL Conference
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photo: Nick Russill via flickr Anyone keeping up on the pace of Arctic summer sea ice melting , take note: Mongabay is reporting on new research presented by the National Space Institute at Technical University of Denmark (and others) which says that if current melting trends continue, the Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer by 2015:... 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
