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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When Bonnie covered the 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces show at the Victoria and Albert, she missed Sean Godsell's Picnic Table House , a clever idea where a picnic table by day becomes a homeless shelter by night. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Living With Less: Picnic Table Turns Into Shelter
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Image from minkyu.co.uk . Last week we wrote an idiosyncratic view of the candidates for the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards . With over 100 items in seven different categories, it is an Oscar-worthy show of the international design world's best work of the past year. And the winners are... As predicted: the folding plug ! Given ...
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Veasyble is "a project based on three words: isolation, intimacy and ornament. It consists of a set of wearable objects that can be converted into means of isolation, to create a personal intimacy in any environment." Yet another example of designers testing new notions of privacy and mobility. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: Veasyble: ...
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images by Lloyd Alter We love the idea of mobile housing, of not being tied down to a piece of land, but instead having the flexibility to follow work or your dreams instead of commuting to them. Mitchell Joachim and Terreform take the idea to a whole new level with Homeway, where houses are mounted on mobile platforms and ...
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Guardian Everyone is having great sport with UK footballer Gary Neville for proposing an underground "ecobunker" designed by the talented MAKE architects , comparing it to the home of Laa-Laa, Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, and Po. But the joke is stale, having been told with every curvy green roof built, including the California Academy of Sciences. The real question is, what ...
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Images from Atelier Albert Wimmer via World Architecture News TreeHugger previously noted the conversion of gas storage tanks built in 1896 into housing by some of Europe's best architects; Now, right next door, Albert Wimmer Architects is has built an "ecological housing estate" built with "low energy construction."... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: "Eco-Estate" Rises Next To ...
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Every year the home builders get together for the monster International Home Builders Show; last year they moved it to Las Vegas because Orlando wasn't big enough, just in time for the biggest meltdown of the residential construction industry ever. Now they could hold it in a triple garage in Peoria. At TreeHugger we always had great fun criticizing ...
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Images via designboom from H3AR architecture and design Hugon Kowalski of Polish architecture firm H3AR does well in competitions; we loved his firm's third place proposal for the New London Bridge. Now he has created an "instant house" for a student competition in Milan. Designboom writes that it is made from lightweight styrofoam concrete tubes coated in Titanium Dioxide ...
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Images via designboom from H3AR architecture and design Hugon Kowalski of Polish architecture firm H3AR does well in competitions; we loved his firm's third place proposal for the New London Bridge. Now he has created an "instant house" for a student competition in Milan. Designboom writes that it is made from lightweight styrofoam concrete tubes coated in Titanium Dioxide ...
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Telecommuting is green Telecommuting and working from home have long been TreeHugger staples, but Howstuffworks does a good job of explaining why it is happening and why it is a good thing. An interesting reason is that it actually can save lives by keeping workers out of their cars: ... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: 10 ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
