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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Image: Lophelia II 2010, NOAA OER and BOEMRE If BP was hoping that "out of sight, out of mind" would help memories of the Deepwater Horizon gulf oil spill disaster fade, news from an ongoing NOAA exploration of coral communities in the deep gulf sea floor could dash their hopes. The findings of a team led by Penn State ...
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photo: Dmitry Krendelev / Creative Commons If that headline seems familiar, it's because it is: A new study, the most comprehensive of its kind, published in Science confirms that 20% of the world's vertebrate species are threatened with extinction. Which is undoubtedly bad news. However the research revealed some good news: Without the work already done on conservation, the ...
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photo: Paul Evans / Creative Commons Slowly, the notion that all those ecosystem services like mangroves protecting coastal towns from hurricanes, rainforests helping bring more rain, and trees scrubbing away air pollution, are actually worth something to society in financial terms is gaining some traction. At the ongoing biodiversity summit in Nagano, Japan both India and Norway h... Read ...
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photo: James Jordan / Creative Commons Let's just take it as a given that plants are awesome in many practical and inherent ways and go from there: New research, led by scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research , shows that plants clean out air pollution to a much greater extent than previously thought. In fact, some... Read ...
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NOAA 's just released the latest Arctic Report Card --and the above video explaining the main points, saving me a lot of keystrokes explaining them--and the prognosis is that the Arctic is still very much warming and that ice and snow cover is still very much declining. Furthermore, ch... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: Cooler ...
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The Leveraged Freedom Chair. Image Credit: MIT Mobility Lab At today's lecture "Facing New Challenges Through Design" as part of Barcelona Design Week , I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab , presented by Victor Grau Serrat from MIT in Boston. Grau gave an inspiring talk about how design and creativity can lift people ...
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photo: Kevin Walsh / Some Rights Reserved If you even only casually follow the issue of climate change, you're probably aware that the polar regions are warming significantly faster than the tropics . Now, a new report in Nature shows that even though this is the case, the greatest impact on ... Read the full story on TreeHugger The ...
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photo: Beatrice Murch / Creative Commons The positive effect of vegetarian diets on the environment is pretty well documented at this point, but here's another new study detailing the high environmental costs of meat: It concludes that because of increases in population and per capita consumption we will have to cut back on meat between 19-42% by 2050 just ...
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photo: Steve Gibson/photohome.co.uk via flickr There've been lots of attempt to calculate the true climate change cost of globalized shipping of goods on a nation-by-nation basis, with divergent results based upon where the boundaries are drawn. A new attempt at that from the University of Manchester says that carbon emission... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: UK Carbon ...
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photo: www.bluewaikiki.com via flickr Let's take it as given that considering the flack dairy gets from segments of the green community for its environmental problems that this result is probably what the Innovation Center for US Dairy wanted, and move on: According to a new calculation of the carbon footprint of a gallon of milk in the United States, ...
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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
