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: US Embassy New Zealand / cc It may be cold and inhospitable there on the world's southernmost continent, but that hasn't stopped a whole host of invasive species from settling there -- a fact that has biologists quite concerned. As more and more researchers and tourists visit Antarctica, along with the shipments of food and equipment required to ...
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Photo by Jeremy Noble The Nature Conservancy is encouraging folks to Picnic for the Planet this Earth Day , April 22. Sounds better than what we did last year, as in watch the beginning of the BP oil spill . So if you're looking for something to do, step outside and break bread with some friends. ... Read the ...
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Image: quinn.anya / Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Construction Fund Raiser News Flash! Men and Women are different. OK, have a chuckle, we know there are plenty of studies that prove men are from Mars and women from Venus. And just as many policy papers about how we can achieve equality between men and women in the workplace. But ...
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Photo: Jacob Davies Sardines have made a serious comeback in terms of sustainable food trends . Sardines are on the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch green list . There's also an over population of sardines as a result of a lack of predators, namely sharks and other larger fish species, according to a story in the Go here to ...
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An overcrowded bus in Istanbul. Image: Scene from " Overdrive ." The Istanbul most visitors see -- the Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of ferries on the Bosphorus, bargaining in the bazaar, and bustling nightlife -- lies within just a few of the city's more than 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is the one I watch ...
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Prototypes for foldable iPad holder by Stands for Change. Photo courtesy of William Tang At a Sustainability Summit in Los Angeles this week, I listened to a report about a Multifamily Rooftop Solar Project and took notes. (I'll report further on it and the conference this weekend). The social equity of the solar project impressed me but so did ...
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Photo: Wikipedia , CC Penguins are an Indicator Species in the Region A new study confirms that a warming planet won't only impact species of penguins that live and feed in icy habitats. "A 30-year field study of Adélie (ice-loving) and chinstrap (ice-avoiding) penguins shows that populations of both species in the West Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea have ...
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Photo credit: Abeeeer via Flickr / CC BY Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it that -- though I suppose it was more civil than, say, ...
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Photo: london.gov Oh to be a fly on the wall for the real conversation between former Governor Arnie, the Terminator, Schwarzenegger and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Ostensibly they got together to discuss fitness programmes for youth. But a few years ago Arnie had called Johnson's speaking style 'fumbling' and in return the Mayor called him a 'monosyllabic Austrian ...
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Zoe Weil , TEDx speaker and president of the Institute for Humane Education, interviews the Sustainable Living Roadshow in this exclusive interview at Green Festival in San Francisco. The Sustaina... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Green Festival SF: Zoe Weil Interviews the Sustainable Living Roadshow
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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
