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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This is an awesome how-to from PCWorld . "I'm now walking around 1.1 or 1.2 miles per hour for eight hours a day. It's not just hundreds of miles--it's thousands of burned calories, too." Imagine, no more gym membership and a healthier life. We'd love to see someone further hack it so that walking on the treadmill powers (at ...
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Photo: WWF We've all heard about the dire straits the planet's biodiversity is in. Species are going extinct at a rate so fast that some scientists have termed the phenomenon the anthropocene extinction (they named it after the cause of their accelerated demise: us). But we know that already. We know that we're killing species off so fast that ...
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Sanyo's Kasai Plant in Japan. Photo: Sanyo Sanyo Bullish on Electric Cars Only a few months after completing its giant lithium-ion battery factory in Kasai city, Japan, Sanyo seems to think that it's still not enough. The company is investing 15 billion yen (about 180 million U.S. dollars) to increase its annual output capacity for automotive lithium-ion batteries by ...
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photo: Andrew Currie / Creative Commons It may seem like all the recent mass bird deaths add up to catastrophic numbers of animals killed, but compared to how many birds are killed every year in ones and twos as they collide with buildings, towers, et cetera, it's a drop in the bucket. See the original post here: Buildings & Pets ...
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image: Mass Animal Deaths - Google Map You'd have to have been sequestered in a cave for the past ten days or so to not have noticed all the coverage of mass bird deaths and fish kills going on right now. And you've perhaps already come across the See the original post here: Google Map Reveals Weird Weather Caused Half ...
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Photo courageously taken by Sylvia Mythen Sylvia Mythen , a 70-year-old grandmother from Venice, Fl, has discovered what appears to be the world's first orange alligator. She was returning from work on Thursday when she drove by the gator... Read the full story on TreeHugger View original here: 70-Year-Old Woman Discovers World's First Orange Alligator
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Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Every year I'm saddened by the small size of the Sustainable Planet Zone at CES. I always hope that the next year, it'll be bigger as more companies creating greener innovations sign on to show off their wares. However, this year it seems to be even smaller than last year, with barely any booths at ...
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Photos via Jaymi Heimbuch Urban Green Energy is showing off eddy, their urban wind turbine, at CES. The vertical wind turbine can be installed in under an hour, and has a 20-year life span. This is their 600 watt model, though they have higher capacity models available. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the rest here: CES 2011: ...
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Image via Samsung We've known about Samsung's green(er) Blue Earth cell phone for awhile now, but there are two lesser known models the company has created with a lighter footprint -- the Evergreen and the Rant 2. They are shown off here at CES, with a nod to the eco-friendly components, including recycled plastic used for their casing.... Read ...
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Photo: GM Other EVs to Follow Not to be outdone by its competitor Hertz, which announced that many models of electric cars will be available in 2011 , Enterprise car rental says that it will have Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids on offer for daily and weekly rentals later this month, though at first only at the Mark Christopher Auto ...
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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
