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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Jaymi Heimbuch / CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 A news story about a carriage horse that dropped dead in NYC has raised attention on the issue of the care of working animals. Rachel reported on it yesterday, bringing up some points on animal welfare. However, there has been a strong reaction by animal rights activists looking to ban carriage horses in ...
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Gage Skidmore via Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Time to face the facts: Mitt Romney is going to win the GOP nomination. Barring some totally crazy left-field development, Romney is on track to become the Republican presidential candidate. As such, we should be taking his energy proposal seriously -- and it's 100% ugly. ... Read the full story on ...
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DARPAtv /Video screen capture DARPA is getting into recycling! After many interesting ideas from various folks about what to do with all the space junk floating around Earth -- a problem and danger to both astronauts and folks down on terra firma -- here is one we can really get behind. DARPA wants to send mini-satellites up into orbit ...
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John Laumer/ CC BY 1.0 I've been up since before sunrise cutting up a deer and processing the meat for freezing. This photo shows how it looked out on my deck by late morning. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: One Way To Buck A Great Recession
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Mike Baird / CC BY 1.0 Conservation photography is just starting to find momentum. A combination of photography that is both art and activism, it is a special niche and one to which the environmental movement already owes a great deal. Sometimes we just have to see it to believe it, to understand the resonant beauty or shocking destruction ...
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Introducing mo from LUNAR Europe on Vimeo . What do you get when you cross a Zipcar model of car sharing with a bike sharing system and a public transport pass on steroids? You get Mo. Mo better. Mo convenient. Mo mobility.... Read the full story on TreeHugger The rest is here: It's Mo! Car Sharing and Bike Sharing Combined ...
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Photo: B. Alter Occupy London (or Occupy LSX--London Stock Exchange) has its home base outside St. Paul's Cathedral in the financial district of London. It has been located there, close to the London Stock Exchange, since October 15, in solidarity with groups across the world. But now, with a growing group of tents and demonstrators, the owners of the ...
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Photo: sneakerdog / cc Chances are that you've never heard of Gene DeSantis, but his story seems one destined for legend. In fact, he's already being compared to a modern-day Johnny Appleseed. For almost three decades, DeSantis has made it his mission to plant trees throughout Baltimore -- with nearly 14 thousand of them planted so far. And like ...
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pink_dispatcher / CC BY-SA 2.0 The more people who get energy from clean sources like solar and wind, the better. That's an unambiguous truism at this point. Yet two primary factors prevent more folks from plugging into renewable power: Cost and access. Most people have neither a) the option to plug into a big, centralized wind farm or solar ...
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Oscar Lhermitte /via If you were in London in late June, you may have noticed more stars than usual, and constellations you've never seen before. You weren't going crazy, but light pollution didn't dropped off, either. The "stars" were the work of French artist Oscar Lhermitte , who with his team catapulted nylon lines studded with LED lights between ...
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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 ...
