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 credit: Wikimedia Commons Perhaps it's because humans sit at the top of the food chain , or maybe it's that big predators so capture the imagination, but much of the attention given to the web of predators and prey focuses on this upper edge—the polar bears , the tigers, the wolves. If the residents of an ecosystem piled ...
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Photo: Kate Glicksberg , "Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, 2008" (cropped) Trees in the city don't just provide visual relief and cooling shade in the midst of the hard-edged urban jungle: They remove greenhouse gases and pollutants from the air, lower power bills while boosting Read more here: City Trees: Photographers Explore the Urban Forest (Slideshow)
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3-Seat Electric Submarine A couple of months ago Jaymi wrote about Richard Branson's latest toy, the Necker Nymph , a kind of small electric submarine that looks kind of like a futuristic airplane. As Jaymi pointed out, it's not exactly zero-impact, but it still makes a few eco claims (it could have been much worse), and if it's used ...
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Protestors in Australia outside the Japanese embassy, photo: Takver via flickr. A whaling 'peace plan' proposal attempting to bridge the gap between Japan, Norway, and Iceland, which all object to the international ban on whaling, and the rest of the world which abides by it is moving forward. BBC News reports that a proposal is quickly being finalized so ...
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The Xingu River in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Photo courtesy of AmazonWatch.org . Guest bloggers Andrea Donsky and Randy Boyer are co-founders of NaturallySavvy.com . A controversial hydroelectric dam project that would have forever changed a portion of the View post: Judge Puts Brakes on Hydroelectric Dam Project in Brazil's Amazon Rainforest
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Eukaryotic Diatoms. Photo: Wikipedia , Public domain Small Creatures with a Big Impact Understanding the ocean's carbon fixation cycle is extremely important if we are to better understand how CO2 emissions affect the global climate. Until recently, it was thought that cyanobacteria overwhelmingly accounted for phytoplankton's role in carbon sequestration in the ocean. Cyanobacteria, like all bacteria, are prokaryotes ...
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Image credit: AP Photo/Zoological Society of San Diego, Ken Bohn From the markets of Vietnam to the pharmacies of China, the villages of the Congo to the forests of Bolivia, traditional medicine fuels a demand for animal parts, threatening the survival of an astonishing number of plant and animal species. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More here: The ...
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Images from The Center for Biological Diversity Talk about Call of the Wild. A new iPhone app from The Center for Biological Diversity puts the sounds of endangered animals on your cell phone. You can literally hear them howling (or screeching, or singing, or growling) for help. But what makes the app special is that you can respond. The ...
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photo: Stefan Powell via flickr. The second of this Sunday's episodes of Life over on the Discovery Channel (9pm ET) focuses on primates: Baboons in Ethiopia, Japanese macaques (you know, snow monkeys), leaf monkeys with bright orange babies, and lemurs are all covered. Our closest relatives are surely fascinating, but unfortunately we don't always play so well with them:... ...
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Surprise! Conservationists are tricking the northern quoll into avoiding toxic cane toads. Image credit: Doug Beckers /Flickr For predators in Australia, the invasive cane toad is a tempting meal. The problem is that these toads are highly toxic—often killing large numbers of naive native species before they have a chance to adapt. Conservationists there have tried everything from cat-food ...
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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
