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
published October 21, 2011 and has No Comments
Elvert Barnes / CC BY-SA 2.0 One of the reasons why there's been such a big push by TransCanada and the tar sands industry more broadly for the approval of the proposed and embattled Keystone XL pipeline , stretching from Canada to Texas, goes beyond the immediate profits of the pipeline and onto a much bigger issue: A coming ...
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The climate activism community is now firmly in the Occupy Wall Street fight. 350.org joined in the tens of thousands in the streets of the New York last week; and now Bill McKibben has starkly laid out the links between climate change, the corporations blocking climate action, and the rank effect of the oil industry corrupting the See the original ...
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Read the rest here: Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
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Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry the exceptionally dirty tar sands oil 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada to American refineries along ...
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Hurricane Irene photo via redeye_ji on Flickr It's been a busy week in media with the Virginia earthquake shaking the East Coast and the subsequent media freakout , the Tar Sands Action protests ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: Hurricane Irene Heading to East Coast & New York (LIVE Blog)
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See original here: Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
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We've been working with Double Impact to introduce fun challenges that encourage people to lead sustainable lives. This week, we asked you again to help us decide what the next challenge should be! Since summer is wedding season, you told us what you thought was the best way to green your big day. The majority decided that using locally ...
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Image via YouTube screenshot To keep animals entertained at zoos and wildlife parks (something very important for their mental health), zookeepers often come up with rather ingenious toys that entertain both the animals and people. That's what's happened here at Durrell Wildlife Park when zoo keepers combined a camera and a treat box and gave it to a large ...
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Photo: Flickr , CC Sh.. Just Got Real As we've written about previously , tuna's in trouble, and it's not just limited to one species and/or one geographical region. A new study conducted by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and published in the prestigious journal Science found that 5 out of the 8 tu... Read the ...
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Photo credit: Rennett Stowe via Flickr /CC BY Put simply, it's just really dumb that we're sending streams of waste to the landfill in 2011. Smart companies -- and some smart governments -- have figured out that it's much better to reuse that stuff, or prevent the waste from building up in the first place. Hence, nations like Denmark ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
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 ...
