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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All photos: Paula Alvarado Continuing with our trip with 5 Gyres in search of plastic pollution in the South Pacific, our sailboat - the Sea Dragon - stopped at Robinson Crusoe island for a quick look around the place and some relaxing before we hit the rest of the 15-day voyage to Easter Island. ... Read the full story ...
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Image: Liz via flickr Mayors from across the country have sent a letter to Hillary Clinton, whose office has been rather quiet on the issue , expressing their concern over the proposed Keystone XL Originally posted here: 25 U.S. Mayors Speak Out Against Tar Sands Pipeline
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Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso (right) speaks to a crowd in Philadelphia about the importance of EPA's mercury safeguards. Photo credit: Sierra Club Gretchen Dahlkemper-Alfonso is a mother of a toddler and is eight-months pregnant with her second child. When it comes to protecting her children and taking precautions on their behalf, she doesn't skip anything. "I do not ignore the facts. ...
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photo: Graeme / Creative Commons Given that there's an ongoing nuclear power plant crisis in Japan and another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you may have missed this one: An oil spill caused by a ship run around on Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic (part of Tristan da Cunha group of islands) which has resu... Read ...
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BLW Photography via flickr While all eyes are on Japan and a few eyes are on nuclear plants in the U.S. , there's other news on the radiation front, this story coming out of southern Illinois. Honeywell pled guilty earlier this month to one felony offense ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Radioactive Pollution in Illinois: Honeywell ...
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Image via YouTube video The first ever San Francisco Green Film Festival launched this weekend and with an impressive line-up of environmental documentaries, not the least of which was a powerful film called Sweet Crude . It is the story of the oil industry's presence on Nigeria's Niger Delta, but more importantly, the movement against the oil companies that ...
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Photo credit: Mona Miri It is a step towards victory for Massachusetts—a top official at Dominion Energy publicly announced the Salem power plant is expected to shut down in the next 5 years. In 2005, I began my environmental series documenting the coal and oil power plant that was responsible for environmental health problems and deaths in the region. ...
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Image: Chevron in Ecuador It's been a long battle : people of the Ecuadorean Amazon against Chevron, which is accused of dumping more than 18 billion gallons of toxic waste sludge into the Amazon, leaving people sick with cancer and suffering miscarriages and birth defects. But the BBC reports that, after a lawsuit lasting nearly 20 years, a court ...
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An abandoned ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site. Photo credit: Andrzej Karo? / Creative Commons Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster , research is showing that prolonged exposure to the remaining low-dose radiation has a serious impact on wildlife in the region. New research has found that birds living near Chernobyl have, on average, a ...
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Photo: Lin Pernille Photography / CC Some of the most revealing clues into the state of pollution since the the Industrial Revolution aren't only found within the words and sentences contained in centuries worth of scientific publications -- they're hiding in the very pages themselves, too. According to one chemist studying the history of pollution, testing the paper of ...
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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
