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 still from a video about trash pickers in Turkey. Image: ' Turkey's Changemakers ' Before there were municipal sanitation workers emptying dumpsters into their big blue trucks , other garbage men gathered trash in Istanbul neighborhoods, picking out scraps of paper or empty bottles to resell. Those that continue plying their trade toda... Read the full story on ...
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Residents of the Kaz Mountains (pictured) in Turkey are worried about the impact of gold mining. Photo: B@ni / Creative Commons . With few legal or political avenues open to fight what they say is illegal and environmentally damaging mining, four Mongolian activists took drastic action earlier this fall: They opened fire with hunting rifles on gold-mining equipment owned ...
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Sri Lanka's Pinnawela Elephant Orphanage. Photo: S J Pinkney / Creative Commons . The escalation last week of hostilities between North Korea and South Korea has surely been a setback to plans to create an ecological corridor out of the Read more from the original source: Sri Lanka Turns Battleground Into Elephant Sanctuary
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"The new 29MW Charter Street facility will use 250,000 tons of biomass fuel each year" Caption and image credit: BrighterEnergy.org Wisconsin's newly-elected Republican Governor is opposed to funding the planned biomass-fired portion of a flex-fuel power plant on the UW Madison campus. He wants the cheaper, natural gas fired part to go forward, however, which will translate to cleaner ...
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photo via associated press Everyone is trying to read the tea leaves to figure out what's going to happen to climate and energy legislation now that Rep. John Boehner is the Speaker-in-waiting. A post from last year might shed some light on this question. During an appearance on ABC News, told George Stephenopoulos the following: "The idea that carbon ...
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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 ...
