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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Image: NASA , Public domain. An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Barrel of Cure... Canada has the longest coastline in the world (well, unless you want to be clever and get into the coastline paradox ), touching three different oceans, and one of them (the Arctic) is seeing rapid increases in shipping and oil exploration because of the ...
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Image: Digg.com screen grab Can You Guess What it Says? This screen grab of the Digg " Top News " page (found on competing site Reddit , but it's not a Photoshop job as far as I can tell) pretty much speaks for itself. The sad part isn't so much that BP is spending money on PR damage-control - ...
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Photo: BP BP Oil Spill Post-Mortem A team of U.S. scientists from Columbia University has just published a paper about a review of video footage from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico last Spring and Summer. Using a technique called "optical plume velocimetry" and other analysis techniques, they were able to estimate how much oil escaped ...
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Image: Hello Electric Nice PR Coup! For a few years, BP (originally British Petroleum) has tried to rebrand itself as "Beyond Petroleum". The disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has made obvious that BP was far from being beyond oil (though beyond the pale, at times), but it's never too late to start. A group called Hello Electric wants ...
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What do Eva Mendes and Ed Begley, Jr., have in common? Both green celebs are calling on President Obama to move our country beyond oil—and they want your help. Having partnered with the Sierra Club these celebrities are calling on President Obama to move Beyond Oil , and using a petition and video campaign to spread the word.... Read ...
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Photo: Banksy.co.uk Poor Dolphin World-famous guerilla artist Banksy has made many environmental statements in the past, but we think this one is particularly clever, especially with the events of the past few months . Check out the video after the jump to see the coin-operated kiddie ride in action.... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original post here: Banksy ...
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Image: Google Maps Thankfully, No Deaths This Time An offshore oil platform exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico. It is located about 80 miles off the Louisiana coast, west of the site of BP's massive oil spill. All 13 people who were on the rig were evacuated and only one was injured, reports the U.S. ...
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Image via Elephant Journal We've had an influx of iPhone apps based on the Gulf oil spill , and many of them also donate proceeds to helping clean-up efforts. So what makes Puff Puff: Gulf Spill any different? It's still an app about the life post oil disaster and it donates 30% of net proceeds to ecosystem restoration in ...
Read more...published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Images via SENSEableCity MIT's Sensable City Lab directo Carlo Ratti and associate director Assaf Biderman have come up with the SeaSwarm, a robot that uses nanofibers to absorb 20 times its weight in oil, and their hope is that it can be developed into a viable solution for cleaning up the Gulf oil disaster. The 7-foot-wide robots sport at ...
Read more...published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Grassroots Mapping Project, jeferonix /Flickr Though a cap has sealed the leak, the Gulf oil spill disaster is still far from over. However, in the frantic days after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform and the dire months that came after, lessons have been learned—about the See more here: Innovative Mapping Project Tracks Gulf Oil With Kites ...
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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
