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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Nicosia, Cyprus. Photo: Franco Pecchio / Creative Commons . Key reservoirs in Cyprus are drying up. In some parts of the Greek side of the divided island, 50 percent of the trees have died due to drought, damaging soil quality and agricultural productivity. Experts say the Mediterranean island could end up with as little water as Abu Dhabi. It's ...
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Image: The National Guard In a letter to the journal Science (subscription only, or see the letter republished with permission at WSUnews ), associations representing over 40,000 scientists have proposed a resourceful solution to the less-big-government versus protection-of-the-people problem: they have volunteered their vast experti... Read the full story on TreeHugger See more here: Scientists Call for "Swifter and Sounder" ...
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For Gasland Director, Josh Fox, this has been a busy week. On Sunday, he was in Hollywood attending the Academy Awards, where Gasland was nominated for an Oscar as Best Documentary and on Tuesday he was back at work speaking at Hendrix University in Conway, Arkansas about the environmental damage taking place in Arkansas and around the country due ...
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Photo credit: ILRI / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Care2 , the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. China has grown enough wheat to feed most of its population for decades, but a drought in the country's northern wheat belt has left the region ...
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van jones, via Ted Talks It took " An Inconvenient Truth" and then " The Age of Stupid " to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were short on presenting solutions, leaving many feeling powerless. ...
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photo via flickr The Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual event where conservative politicians and activists get together in something akin to a pep rally, has come to an end. The event can be seen as a sort of a bellwether for the pet causes of the movement, and this year conservatives placed a target squarely on the back ...
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Image: VirtKitty The question of animal welfare shot straight into consumer awareness with the recent massive dioxin-contaminated egg scandal in Germany. Now, Germany's Agricultural Minister, Ilse Aigner (CSU), has put the question squarely on the political table with the observation to Die Welt : "We must discuss what consumers expect and what best serves nature and the welfare... Read ...
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" Future." "Take the Future by your Hand. Who else can do?" HKD Image & title credit:Flickr, h.koppdelaney's photostream Think tankers and lobbyists have had a hard time envisioning the unintended consequences of their diverse fossil fuel-defending tactics, tactics that have been intensifying for 12 years, culminating in an ' eliminate EPA ' frenzy, as mapped by The Newt ...
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Image: WEEE Man , London South Bank, by polymer808 This week the European Parliament backed a proposal to re-write the WEEE directive . WEEE stands for Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, and the directive sets requirements for the end-of-life management in the growing electrical and electron... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: European Parliament ...
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The December 2008 Tennessee coal ash spill. Photo Credit: Lyndsay Moseley, Sierra Club The words "hexavalent chromium" may not be ones you come across everyday, but they have made the news before. The deadly toxin first made headlines after Erin Brockovich sued Pacific Gas & Electric because of poisoned drinking water from hexavalent chromium . Now, new information from ...
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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 ...
