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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Check out this powerful video—made as an unsolicited donation to the National Wildlife Federation —that drives home the impact that the BP oil spill is having on wildlife in the ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued here: BP Oil Spill Sparks a Crude Awakening (VIDEO)
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Photo: Flickr , CC A Bigger Carrot for Innovation The X-Prize Foundation 's mission is to "bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity", and right now, a breakthrough in oil spill cleanup certainly would make the world a better place, so it's no surprise that X-Prize is launching a new $10 million prize for the development of ...
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photo via flickr The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), VoteVets.org Action Fund, Sierra Club and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) today went live with some hard hitting TV ads designed to pressure targeted Senators to support climate and energy action. The $11 million ad campaign names Sens. Burr (NC), Johanns (NE), Nelson (NE), McCaskill (MO) and Reid (NV), and ...
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photo via flickr When the CEOs of some of the world's largest oil companies testified in front of the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment earlier this month, they had no good answers for how their companies would approach cleaning up a spill like the Deepwater Horizon. That's not good enough, of course, and now Congress is pressuring the oil ...
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Philippe Cousteau takes the stage at the TEDxOilSpill conference in Washington, DC. Image credit: David DeFranza Every year, the TED—Technology, Education, Design—conference convenes with the intention of showcasing "ideas worth spreading." However, a once-annual conference of diverse speakers, organizers have realized, is not always enough. Sometimes, an issue or event arises that simply demands discussion—that requires the world's greatest ...
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photo via flickr There's news out of Canada, home of this week's G20, about fossil fuel subsidies. Reports say that at the behest of the USA, the group of the 20 largest economies in the world have agreed to r emove language that says that cuts in subsidies should be "voluntary. " The result could be greater price party ...
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photo via flickr As clean up efforts from the Deepwater Horizon extend into almost their 70th day, bad news has blown in the form of a warning of a coming tropical storm strong enough to halt clean up efforts. The stoppage could result in an additional half-million of barrels of spilled oil, adding to the record amounts already beginning ...
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Image credit: Moving Beyond Oil "The BP disaster in the Gulf is a wake up call," Moving Beyond Oil says, "now is our chance to turn the tides and create a clean energy future that moves us beyond oil." To make this happen, they are planning a mass action on the National Mall and they need everyone's help to ...
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Alexandra and Philippe Cousteau inspect tarballs that have washed up on a beach in Alabama. Image courtesy of Philippe Cousteau I got word last night on the way to Alabama that Larry King is doing a two-hour special telethon and that they want me to be a special field correspondent to film and host all the in-the-field segments. I'm ...
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Well, it is depressing... Image: NASA, public domain. The 12th Victim of the Deepwater Horizon? If the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico never happened, William Allen "Rookie" Kruse might still be alive. At least that's what his family thinks, and they'd like him to be considered the 12th victim of the explosion that took place on ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
