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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Easy Info Source for Products You Buy for Your Kids, Your Pets and Yourself The Ecology Center, a nonprofit environmental research organization, has announced the results of product testing and the creation of a website HealthyStuff.org to help consumers make choices and encourage support for controls on the toxins in everyday products. For example, out of 100 women's handbags ...
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Each earth mover at Canada's Tar Sands is 3-stories high. Photo courtesy of Greenpeace film Petropolis . "Reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity," that's how film critics described Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour . So where are we two years later? If the environmental documentaries screened at Toronto International Film Festival, closing ...
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Erich Pica is the new Director of Friends of the Earth , the international environmental NGO at the front lines of some of the most serious and controversial problems affecting the natural world. Pica, 34, has been with Friends of the Earth for more than a decade, the last six years as the director of the organization's domestic programs. ... ...
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Environmental Journalist Olivia Zaleski at Green Fashion Week. Credit Emma Grady We hit the green carpet opening night at GreenShows -- the premiere eco-friendly, ethically sound, and fair-trade fashion event during New York Fashion Week -- and spoke with model activist Summer Rayne Oakes and environmental journalist Read more here: GreenShows Street Fashion: Environmental Activists Summer Rayne Oakes and Olivia ...
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As awareness about climate change grows, educational resources are popping up around the country. The Alliance for Climate Education (ACE) calls Oakland, CA, home and they are doing a great job educating high school students about climate change from a scientific perspective. I asked Alisha, one of ACE's ace educators, about their mis... Read the full story on TreeHugger View ...
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Clandestine tomato plant fertilizing device: the Bed Pan Guitar. Image credit: Photobucket, by turquoisemoleeater Now that my tomatoes are done producing for 2009, like all the other gardeners I know, I am planning to do better in 2010. Priority #1 for next year is to order the tomato plants from a small company that does not spread tomato blight ...
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Wild Fire in California Forest in Fall of 2007. Image credit: Assurance Group We cheered earlier this week when Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced the first-ever department-wide coordinated strategy to address the impacts of climate change on the public lands, wildlife, coasts, and ecosystems managed by his agency. It's a fantastic plan and a nice coincidence because it comes ...
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African Burial Ground National Monument photo: Matthew McDermott Not only is next week Climate Week here in New York City, it's also National Parks Week (Sep. 21-27). As part of that the National Parks Conservation Association has a whole bunch of events going on:... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: Next Week is National ...
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photo: Matthew McDermott Friday outside the United Nations in New York, members of the Bangladesh Environment Network and approximately 50 supporters rallied and delivered a message addressed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, making the case that climate change puts the very future of Bangladesh into question , something made all the more poignant because historically and currently the ...
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Image credit: Cricketbread Search "thermostat chicken" on TreeHugger, and all you will find is a brief mention in Christine's post on the thermodynamics of toilet use . Yet I know from previous conversations that my fellow TreeHuggers are not averse to this game, so beloved by environuts the world over. And the season is fast approaching. For those who ...
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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 ...
