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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There are just so many examples of the principle of there really being no 'away' when it comes to plastic waste. The great state- and small country-sized floating plastic ga... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Plastic Gets There First - Surfing Legends Say They've Found Plastic Even On Remotest Beaches (Video)
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Image: JoinThePipe Let me first say "Happy Mother's Day" to all the mothers out there. Then let me share something that seems fitting for this Mother's Day: a cause my daughter turned me onto, a cause which every mother can support. Yes, it is clean water for those who need it. Again. But JoinThePipe has done it with a ...
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"The ultimate nerd gadget" Image credit: GlobalPOV , excerpt from photo of printer out-puting plastic love doll. For years I've been watching for news of an engineering break-though which indicated polymer-based solar photo-voltaic sheets could become cheap to manufacture and long lasting, perhaps using a process akin to computer printing. (Which would mean that solar power would at last ...
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Photo via 2nd Green Revolution The Most Effective Tax Ever? Washington DC's 5 cent tax on plastic bags , instated just this past January, has already proven to have a phenomenal impact: the number of plastic bags handed out by supermarkets and other establishments dropped from the 2009 monthly average of 22.5 million to just 3 million in January. ...
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Images by B. Alter This TreeHugger was invited to visit Sony's Technology Center in Stuttgart, Germany to hear about ecological and environmental initiatives in the company. We saw the new VAIO W eco model laptop , visited the lab's and saw how they do materials compliance testing, and emissions testing and witnessed the future technology of solar cells. Most ...
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It may well be the ugliest house we have shown on TreeHugger, and it is made of garbage, too. But Ian McPherson of Welsh startup Affresol takes plastic waste, grinds it down to little granules. They then mix it with liquid resin and pour it like concrete into panels, which they call Thermo Poly Rock (TPR). ... Read the ...
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Recent research is shedding light on the disturbing state of our planet's oceans and the incredible amount of waste that has collected at sea The rest is here: PSA Shows Life in a Sea of Plastic
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Image via Plastiki crew We've been following the progress of the Plastiki for over a year now. In case you've forgotten, it's the pet project of eco-adventurer David de Rothschild and it's a huge boat made from recycled plastic bottles. The vessel has been under construction and late last week, the crew finally unveiled it in the San Francisco ...
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Image credit: Daquella manera /Flickr Polycarbonate plastic is in everything from water bottles to CDs and DVDs and thousands of other consumer products. Recently, it has even worked its way into the news with reports that bisphenol A (BPA) , a component of the plastic, can cause gender mutations and endocrine problems. Disposing of polycarbonate in a way that ...
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Image: Universal Studios Scientists Invent Self-Healing Hydrogel Strong Enough to Replace Plastics Hydrogels are not new. Contact lenses and replacement skin are just two examples of uses of these high-water content gels. But hydrogels currently suffer from problems like being too brittle or quite soft. This week in Nature , scientists announce the invention of a new type of ...
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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 ...
