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
published December 16, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo: Gruenenrw on Flickr. "I have the feeling of dread that we are on the Titanic and sinking fast, but we can't launch any life boats because a member of the crew has decided that we are not sinking and that we have to have informal consultations to decide whether we are sinking or not." Ian Fry , chief ...
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Photo: ABC TV George Monbiot has graced our pixels many time before (see links below). The journalist with Britain's Guardian newspaper believes we need to take swift and decisive action, if we are to avert the effects of man-made climate change. Ian Plimer, a geologist, is Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and director of ...
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Here is the original post: Beware False Balance in Climate Science: All Voices Are Not Equal
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What happens to bloggers who reach into the jaws of climate gate. Image credit::Never Yet Melted, Hand In Crock CNN just polled 1,041 adult Americans on Americans' belief in global warming and found that " a rise in skepticism among Americans over global warming is mostly due to changes among Republicans... " Having put my hand into this angry-comment ...
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Image credit: 10:10 Campaign You wouldn't know it to look at recent discussion threads here on TreeHugger, but one of the most encouraging signs in recent years has been the moves by politicians of all shades to start tackling climate change. Of course you'd be hard pressed to find any politician pushing the kind of carbon cuts many scientists ...
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Image credit: Tessish / YouTube I hesitated about posting this story due to the divisive and heated rhetoric that has been appearing in comments on any post about climate change recently. Given the huge consequences at stake at Copenhagen, the last thing we need is more 'them and us' political mudslinging. But those stakes also demand that we understand ...
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South Island, New Zealand. Photo: Warren McLaren / INOV8. New Zealand has a new emissions trading scheme (ETS). In many ways its passage through the NZ parliament is like a parallel universe to the climate change shenanigans that have been occurring across the Tasman Sea in Australia. According to the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), this ETS is also a ...
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Photo: Australian Parliament House by noodlesnacks via wikipedia . The Australia Labor Government want to front up to the Copenhagen with their backpocket sprouting an emissions trading scheme (ETS) approved by the Australian parliament. The Liberal/National Coalition party in opposition are in turmoil as to whether they'll approve such a thing. Because politically they are over barrel, no matter ...
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Photo: ABC Online The other week both Brian and Matthew posted on the report from the Global Carbon Project that showed carbon dioxide emissions had risen 2% in 2008, even when the economy was supposed to be slowing. What their posts didn't mention, was that Australia has retained it's unenviable position as the world's worst carbon emitter, per capita. ...
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The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Is now battling in the courts, in front of the Federal Trade Commission, at the US Green Building Council to gain credibility. That doesn't cut any ice with ForestEthics, who never miss a chance to expose it as greenwashed lumber. They ran full page ads in USA Today during Greenbuild, naming the companies that ...
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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
