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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The installation at the California Academy of Sciences. Photo via Boing Boing . Visitors who come across the " Plastic Century " art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash-filled water cooler or go thirsty.... Read the ...
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The installation at the California Academy of Sciences. Photo via Boing Boing . Visitors who come across the " Plastic Century " art installation while searching for a sip of water at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco tomorrow may find their options less than appealing: Drink from a trash-filled water cooler or go thirsty.... Read the ...
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Photo via IAN Thanks largely to the interminable gloom of the BP Gulf oil spill , it feels like we haven't seen any good news on the green front for ages. But while all eyes have been on the Gulf, the California State Assembly passed a truly exciting bill : One that bans single-use plastic bags across the state. ...
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Photo by markey weiss Guest post by Philippe Cousteau I was at the grocery store the other day, minding my own business, when I noticed the woman in front of me pull out a large cloth reusable sack at the checkout aisle. "Progress!" I thought to myself with satisfaction. Then I watched in horror as she first placed her ...
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Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is currently aboard the 60 foot, 12,500 plastic bottle ThePlastiki.com vessel crossing the Pacific, fresh from the Galapagos where he covered TED Ocean's Mission-Blue conference. This post originally appeared on Huffington Post ; Photos via The Plastiki It's about a week into the Kiribati to Fiji or New Caledonia or wherever we end up ...
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Images via The Plastiki Ever since the Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it seems the barometers of success and modernity within society have been measured by our interaction, or rather lack of interaction, with the natural world. The formula appears to be simple: The more we package, mechanize, and force nature into the background, the more ...
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Photos via The Plastiki Text written by Michael Pawlyn, Director, Exploration Architecture. I met David de Rothschild at the Google Zeitgeist conference in 2007 where we both spoke during the session about Green Technology. He explained his idea of the Plastiki Expedition and I was immediately captivated. It had exactly the right combination of elements to appeal to my ...
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Image from stylelist Here comes the bride.... This blushing bride wore a dress made out of 13 feet of bubble wrap as she walked down the aisle. Her train was another three feet. She looks so great! It was first seen on the catwalk--sort of--at a fashion show featuring recyclable materials at her school . When her fiancé proposed ...
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Thomas Thwaites Carl Sagan famously said that "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." An apple was a bit tough for art student Thomas Thwaite, but a toaster seemed more approachable. We covered the first steps in a post last fall , but now it is complete. It's ugly but ...
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Thomas Thwaites Carl Sagan famously said that "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." An apple was a bit tough for art student Thomas Thwaite, but a toaster seemed more approachable. We covered the first steps in a post last fall , but now it is complete. It's ugly but ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
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 ...
