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 December 9, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University / Creative Commons Something to bring the horror of the Gulf oil spill back fresh to memory: The NRDC says that the FDA is grossly underestimating the exposure to carcinogens in seafood that Gulf Coast residents have been and are being exposed to. It all comes down to how much ...
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Image: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE If BP was hoping that "out of sight, out of mind" would help memories of the Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill disaster fade, news from an ongoing NOAA exploration of coral communities in the deep gulf sea floor could dash their hopes. The findings of a team led by Penn State ...
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A couple weeks ago we shared a couple of the touching and sobering videos that NRDC , StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf have been producing, reminding us that even though t... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original here: More Stories From the Gulf Oil Spill: Shrimp Fisherman One of the Forgotten Victims (Video)
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Image: Sea Swarm, MIT SENSEable City Lab Sea Swarm Deploying clumps of hair, dropping hay bails, tapping Kevin Costner's oil-sucking machine , unleashing giant super-skimmers, applying chemicals to turn oil into asphalt ; In the wake of the BP Gulf oil spill, we've heard about every method imagi... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more: MIT's Solar-Powered Robotic Swarm ...
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In case the Gulf oil spill has begun to fade from your mind already, here are a couple first hand accounts to keep the impact fresh. Put together by NRDC in collaboration with StoryCorps and Bridge the Gulf , these are the first in a ser... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original post: Six Months Later, Stories of ...
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Photo: US Coast Guard BP is rearranging its bonus structure so that 4th quarter payments are given out in accordance to "excellent safety and compliance standards" and to those who reduce "operational risks". It's a PR stunt designed to publicly bolster its tattered safety reputation if there ever was one. Here's how it will work: ... Read the full ...
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Photo: WN , Creative Commons Aaaaand we're back. Back to the regularly scheduled programming of offshore drilling, dominant oil companies calling the shots, and the same backwards-looking energy policy we had before BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded , killing 11 men and inflicting upon the Gulf of Mexico the worst environmental disaster the US has ever seen. Yes, ...
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Image: Digg.com screen grab Can You Guess What it Says? This screen grab of the Digg " Top News " page (found on competing site Reddit , but it's not a Photoshop job as far as I can tell) pretty much speaks for itself. The sad part isn't so much that BP is spending money on PR damage-control - ...
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Photo via Blogspot via CNN Aaaaand here's why we need good citizen and student-lead journalism in the Gulf. BP has launched an 'educational campaign' in Louisiana to give students the most "current information available" about the Gulf spill. Coincidentally, the most "current information available" appears to include explaining, in BP's words, those pesky "myths" out there about "dispersants, subsurfa... ...
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Photo: BP BP Oil Spill Post-Mortem A team of U.S. scientists from Columbia University has just published a paper about a review of video footage from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico last Spring and Summer. Using a technique called "optical plume velocimetry" and other analysis techniques, they were able to estimate how much oil escaped ...
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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
