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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Photo via: Fyunkie Can you find the cat amongst this hoarders 'collections'? Hoarders have been around for years. Some prefer to classify themselves as “pack rats”, others “collectors”. Whatever they choose to be called, they are still among the same mental illness which is categorized by the compulsive need to collect things. Some people collect mugs, others newspapers, but ...
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photo: Graham via flickr Talk about an ultimatum: Mongabay reports that the government of Cameroon has given conservation group Wildlife Works 30 days to come up with a conservation plan for a 830,000 hectare (3,205 square mile) area of rainforest or the whole thing gets sold off to loggers:... See the rest here: Conserve Now or the Rainforest Gets It! ...
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Photo: Phoenix Valley Metro Shows a Big Pent Up Demand for Quality Public Transportation The sprawling city of Phoenix, of all places, is showing us how light rail should be done. They just opened a 20 mile line with 28 stops last December, and ridership statistics are beating all forecasts (evidence that the same might be true in other ...
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Photo: Copenhagenize It Also Doubles as an Air Pump The city of Copenhagen, Denmark, our Best of Green 2009 winner for " Best City To Be a Cyclist In ", has installed what I think is a totally awesome cyclist counter ("cykelbarometer") in front of city hall (it also has an air pump if you need to inflate your ...
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Image: Flickr, StuSeeger What is it that gives a city title to the claim of "greenest?" How would you like to visit a city with no fossil-fueled cars allowed? How about the best city for bicyclists? Or the perfect city to explore sustainable city planning theories which have really been implemented? Our list of the 5 greenest cities in ...
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Yosemite Falls photo via: JLMPhoto. TreeHugger has been writing about various aspects of the worldwide water crisis for the past few weeks, so it seems appropriate to highlight some of the great water wonders of the world. From sea to shining sea, we take you on a tour from New Zealand to Africa to the United States. These nine ...
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Photo via Bloomberg So it's not exactly adorable , but it's pretty amazing looking. Recently discovered on an expedition through Ecuador by Conservation International, the salamander belongs to the Bolitoglossa family, and yes, it looks a lot like everyone's favorite Extra Terrestrial. ... View original post here: Amazing, Newly Discovered Salamander Looks Like ET
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For people living along the Mekong, the river supplies them with about 80% of their protein intake. Photo: Fredrik Thommesen via flickr. A few short weeks ago it came out the China had plans in the works to place 20 hydroelectric dams on the upper reaches of the Yangtze . It also has dam plans in the headwaters of ...
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Photo by k e r i'm via Flickr. One of Istanbul residents' favorite green spots, the Belgrad Forest northeast of the city, was--or so the story goes--burned down by Sultan Mahmut II in the late 1820s to flush out escaped members of the mutinous Janissary corps. But not all of the old Ottoman rulers were so blithe about the ...
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photo: Samuel M Beebe/Ecotrust , Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, via a href= flickr . As light increasingly gets shined on the impact of deforestation on accelerating climate change, we have a new report published in today's issue of Science which show that not only in deforestation bad for the planet, the eco... Read more here: Tropical Deforestation Brings Economic Boom, ...
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This hand operated gramophone is as simple as it gets. Original post: Minimalist Gramophone Makes Playing Music Super Simple
Contrary to previously held notions of how whale songs are shared between neighboring populations, a surprising study finds that whales living the same ocean basin are singing different songs. Read the original post: Study: Humpback Whales Living in Same Ocean ...
