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: Leo Newball Jr. under a Creative Commons license . In the last few years, New York City has banned smoking just about everywhere , lit the Statue of Liberty with wind power , and put forward a plan to renovate its waterfront , and much o... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Crowdsourced Ideas Show New ...
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Staten Island Ferry photo via wikipedia commons In 2008, Jacques Guillet, walked out of a Manhattan Municipal Building, $162,000 poorer, but the proud owner of a used 3,500-passenger Staten Island Ferry. The former marina owner and sailboat racer had a plan to convert the ferry into a floating dorm for New York college students. The numbers seemed at first ...
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Want to know what it'll cost to shut down the aging, embattled and oh-so-close to New York City (just 35 miles away) Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant ? Well, utility ConEd has just released an assessment of that: $65 a year more on electricity bills. Which, as SmartPlanet points out, is just 18 cents a day. ... Read the ...
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Photo Credit: Terabass / Creative Commons Are you property owner that's required to benchmark your building for NYC's new Local Law 84? Yet, you're still not sure how to do that or who can do it for you? You are not alone, and the Office of Long Term Planning and Sustainability is geared to help. This week the Mayor's ...
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Bicyclist placing flowers at Memorial for Fuen Bai in the LES photo: Bonnie Hulkower Today, families, friends, residents and bicycle advocates participated in the 6th Annual Memorial Ride and Walk for New Yorkers who have been killed by cars while walking or biking on city streets. The event was organized by the Street Memorial Project . The bike tour ...
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Image: MTA.me Train Conductor, in the Musical Meaning of the Word Public transit is our favorite way of moving large number of commuters around (except for walking and biking, when that's possible), but it's also - surprisingly - the inspiration for a piece of interactive art. Alexander Chen has taken New York City's MTA subway schedule and turned it ...
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Photos credit Sothebys Architect Adam Kushner was fortunate enough to be able to design his own New York apartment, and did so with some style. It is a bit eccentric, what with a jacuzzi in the middle of the ground floor living space and a glass floor in the bathroom above, but it does make clever reuse of the ...
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Photo: Chloe Crespi The Christie's Bid to Save the Earth second annual auction--don't miss our video interviews from last year's red carpet --to benefit environmental non-profits has an eco-fashion spin this year, Vogue reports, with new program, See more here: Top Luxury Designers Join "Runway to Green" Fashion Show
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Photo: nickjohnson , CC Not a Bad Idea, But Does It Need to be a Priority? New York cyclists, be warned: The NYPD is on to you! Apparently the boys in blue have been ordered to begin a "borough-wide crackdown" on cyclists who commit "vehicular offenses" (not obeying traffic signals, going over speed limit, failure to signal before a ...
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Image credit NCinDC , creative commons James Schwartz of The Urban Country asks why the streets are so dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians, and why we put up with it. He demands zero tolerance, and assembles some grim statistics and articles from around the continent to make his point. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is ...
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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 ...
