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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Photo Courtesy of Virginia Krakowiak Just outside of Portland, Oregon, on a small local certified organic workers´ farm collective (that´s a mouthful), a small cabin is being built. Measuring just 16´x 20´ ( small is the new big ), it will house farmers during the harvest season. But what´s remarkable about the cabin is not what it´s for, but ...
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The design blogs are agog that on the 125th anniversary of the registration of the first woman architect, Architect Barbie has been introduced. She arrives after a campaign by architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, who staged her own Architect Barbie exhibition in 2007. ( PDF here ) One could argue that she should be wearing more black, have round glasses ...
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Photo: oda: Velodrome London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. Happily, sanity has prevailed and the massive Olympic Stadium which was under threat of demolition will now be retained as a football (soccer) stadium. But ...
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Image credit TD Bank I thought I was very careful and considered in my discussion of TD's Net Zero Energy bank branch. I described what good environmental corporate citizens they were and how happy I was as a customer. But I did point out that it was plopped in the middle of a sea of asphalt and that the ...
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1. SFI vs FSC Who can forget the smug guy standing on the lawn in front of his monster home in his pyjamas, the new environmentalist who chooses newspapers printed on SFI paper, looks for a home constructed with wood from SFI certified forests, and even demands that his bathrobe be shipped in packaging made with paper from SFI ...
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Images credit Hester + Hardaway The first things that catch your eye are the boxes, sort of indoor sheds. They are made from remilled roof decking from the old warehouse that is the new home for the Lance Armstrong Foundation , or LIVE STRONG . It isn't in any suburban office park, either, but in East Austin, a part ...
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Photo Credit: Neil Chambers Last Tuesday (Jan 18, 2011), I trekked out to Brooklyn's famously hip neighborhood Williamsburg for an open house of Loadingdock5 Architecture's new PassivHaus project . When I got there, I found out the party had been cancelled. To my good fortune, I talked my way into the building - and got a guided tour by ...
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Photo: equinoxefr under a Creative Commons license . Being something of a history buff as well as TreeHugger writer, a recent visit to the Briare Bridge Canal in France's Loire River Valley caught my attention. The structure itself is remarkable: a 662 meter (2,172 ft), water-filled causeway, it allows boats to cross 11 meters over the Loire quickly and ...
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Image: wnca.org Coal ash never ceases to amaze: despite being radioactive and loaded with mercury , not only does the EPA claim it reduces greenhouse gas emissions, its use in construction is also a source of See the rest here: Should Coal Ash Be Getting LEED Credits?
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Did the Vancouver Convention Centre give green building a bad name? Image credit the Tyee Many have said that this is the year for the green building revolution to take off; Others see increasing challenges ahead. Chris Cheatham predicts more battles over green building codes, such as this one in Arizona; In Ohio, builders are fighting changes that would ...
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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 ...
