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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A rendering of the future system. Image credit: Amman BRT . Having already begun to reclaim its sidewalks for pedestrians, the city of Amman, Jordan is setting out to reclaim its streets from traffic chaos. The Jordan Times reported this month that construction is underway on a new Bus Rapid Transit system in centr... Read the full story on ...
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The Reading power plant in Tel Aviv, recently converted to burn natural gas instead of crude oil. (photo by Daniel Cherrin) In a sign that it intends to take its climate change commitments seriously, Israel has appointed a high-level committee to find ways to reduce its carbon emissions. However, a controversial reform of the town planning system has many ...
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A building under renovation in Tel Aviv - Jaffa. Photo by Jesse Fox. Israel's planning system is inefficient, and long overdue for a reform - on this, almost everyone agrees. What kind of reform? On this there is no consensus, but plenty of ideas are floating around. In the meantime, an expeditious attempt to reform the system has ignited ...
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Image credit: Valcent John already wrote about Valcent's vertical farming systems back in 2008 , and I was excited to learn about a pilot vertical farm project at a UK zoo . So news that Valcent's vertical farming system has been named as the 16th best invention of 2009 by Time Magazine was bound to catch our interest. Valcent's ...
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Image credit: Solarcentury From installing solar on hundreds of UK schools to developing a unique combined solar thermal and solar electric roofing system , Solarcentury have always been pioneering and ambitious. In fact it's this ambition that led them to be named " Britain's fastest growing energy company ", and saw them Here is the original: UK Solar Pioneer Expands ...
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The Bedouin village of Qasr Al-Sir: on the verge of momentous change (photo by Daniel Cherrin). After a volunteer accidentally burned down its office, Bustan , an environmental justice organization based in Israel's Negev desert, decided it was time to make some changes. "That was the straw that broke the camel's back," says Bustan Director Ra'ed Al-Mickawi. With the ...
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Photo by Jesse Fox. Should land be held as a public asset, or traded as a private commodity? In Israel, where 93% of the country’s land is publicly owned, state ownership of land is anchored in legislation, and even in the Bible. However, a new plan to transfer a massive amount of state land to private ownership is afloat, ...
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For a group of British ecologists working in development organizations in the West Bank, researching the sorry state of the Palestinian environment became, at some point, rather unsatisfying. “We wanted to move from writing reports on environmental destruction and stagnating development to actually doing something about it,” says Alice Gray. Over two years later, the group, along with a ...
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Photo source: Wikipedia . In England, where the manicured lawn came into fashion in the 17th century, natural rainfall is generally enough to keep the grass growing all year long. In contemporary America, where lawns cover an area roughly the size of New York State , lawns are hardly ecological: unproductive monocultures, lawns account for more than half of ...
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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 ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
