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 Images Courtesy of the City of Paris The proposed design for the river bank between the Tuileries Gardens and the Musee d'Orsay. There's a lot going on in Paris these days: the City is in the process of redesigning at least ten different neighborhoods, and a full 10% of its surface space is covered by construction work. Now, ...
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Last week, I wrote about the four finalists in the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition . All four were impressive entries, but one had to come out on top, and yesterday the winner was announced: Tom Leader Studio of Berkeley, Calif., and Kennedy & Violich Architecture of Boston. Their RiverFIRST p... Read the full story on TreeHugger View post: Berkeley/Boston Team ...
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Image: Global Justice Game There's a region in Louisiana known as cancer alley (or chemical corridor, take your pick). You can guess why. Cancer claims victims at an alarming rate along the 85-mile stretch of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, where more than 140 industrial plants spew pollution into the air and water. Where is ...
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Photo: equinoxefr under a Creative Commons license . Being something of a history buff as well as TreeHugger writer, a recent visit to the Briare Bridge Canal in France's Loire River Valley caught my attention. The structure itself is remarkable: a 662 meter (2,172 ft), water-filled causeway, it allows boats to cross 11 meters over the Loire quickly and ...
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Photo: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region To many people, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran are heroes. When the two men from Maryland, saw a deer stranded in the icy waters of the Patapsco River, they did what few others would dare. With an inflatable boat, the duo ventured out and rescued the animal before it ...
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Photo: heatherlyone / CC Each year thousands of tourists flock to see one of the Amazon's most breathtaking natural wonders -- the spot where two great rivers collide, mixing their different colored waters to form the behemoth Amazon river . But the future of this remarkable place, known as The Meeting of Waters (or Encontro das Águas ) is ...
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Photo: AFP In places throughout the Amazon , some stretches of the region's most important rivers and tributaries have dried up almost entirely, reducing the normally flowing waterways to a vast plain of broken clay and mud. For some people who live and work in this part of the world , life has come to a screeching halt amid ...
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Photos via River Monsters British fisherman Jeremy Wade, host of Animal Planet's River Monsters , made quite a rare catch on a remote stretch of the River Congo. As one might expect from looking at this prehistoric-looking goliath tigerfish, measuring in at around 5 feet in length with 32 razor-sharp teeth... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest ...
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Photo: Tony Tanoury While it's often commendable when a passerby goes out of their way to help an animal in need -- still, sometimes it's best to let others handle it. Case in point, meet Alexander Alcantare. This South Florida man loves animals so much that when he offers them a helping hand, there's a pretty good chance he ...
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"We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August , is currently traveling the world as a documentarian with her organization Blue Legacy , and, when ...
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"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
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
