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 courtesy of Michelle Kaufmann, Seeds of Peace All of the media around questions of the mosque being built near Ground Zero is a powerful reminder of how intense and raw feelings are and how quickly those those feelings can turn to hatred and to violence. Hatred of the other is at the root of what caused the horrific ...
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Not exactly Scott Adams' new green home, but the one he designed for Dilbert. Dilbert creator Scott Adams writes about his new house in the Wall Street Journal: The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, ...
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Image credit: AZrainman Could government finally be waking up to the threat of peak oil? When a government minister attended a peak oil conference as a "keynote listener" , I perhaps unkindly cited it as evidence that miracles do happen. But despite warnings of peak oil in 5 years from Richard Branson , there's no doubt that governments the ...
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Preston at Jetson Green shows us Clayton Homes' i-house 2.0, a larger version of their green modern prefab introduced two years ago (and seen in TreeHugger here ). It is a handsome design, beautifully presented. But while Preston says that "I-house has been insanely popular", another source noted in the spring that "Apparently, Clayton's hotcakes are sti... Read the ...
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Biting female mosquito. Image credit:James Gathany/CDC , via the Gazeteer Extra. Fear of disease is such a strong motivator. And most people hate insects,. Hence, you will occasionally see reference to the risk of climate-led outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases like encephalitis or West Nile as a way to get people to pay attention to climate change. That fear-factor didn't ...
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Image via Crave What a way to explore the ocean... Japan's Kori no Suizokukan (Ice Aquarium) in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan has about 450 specimens of about 80 species on display for anyone to examine or ponder. But they aren't floating or zipping through aquariums. Nope...they're frozen in blocks of ice. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more ...
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Image credit: Kanu Hawaii /Creative Commons Aquaponics usually stirs up a good deal of interest and debate here. From the awesome urban aquaponics of Growing Power to industrial-scale aquaponics operations , plenty of people believe in the idea of recycling fish poop into plant food in an efficient semi-closed-loop system. And yet questions remain—I've asked before whether View original post ...
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Original post: Today on Planet 100: Top 5 Green Houses of Worship (Video)
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"Don't be someone who needs help carrying a banana. That's not who you are" You don't need a lot of stuff to be a good cook; Mark Bittman says ""A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All else is optional." But what amazing options there are, those single ...
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Ann Kadet of The Wall Street Journal looks at some of the new product service systems that are popping up, letting people live with less. She notes: "New Yorkers have always been big on sharing. It's not that we can't afford to buy our own stuff, it's more that we just don't have room for it." She exposes the ...
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Excerpt from: Today on Planet 100: Planet 100's Top 10 Most Outrageous Stories (Video)
Photo via News One Less dramatic than the fiery explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the multiple month-spanning underwater oil geyser that followed it are many of the BP Gulf spill's side effects. And oil-related sicknesses are ...
