Enough Climate Denial! 24 Hours of Climate Reality Starts Tonight! (WATCH NOW)
published September 15, 2011 and has No Comments
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Read more...The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
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?
Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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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"This is the Biggest Civil Disobedience Action in the US this Century": Bill McKibben
published September 5, 2011 and has No Comments
Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry the exceptionally dirty tar sands oil 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada to American refineries along ...
Read more...Trent Lott Calls for a Higher Gas Tax (Video)
published August 5, 2011 and has No Comments
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Read more...How Would You Grade Obama’s Environmental Progress?
published July 13, 2011 and has No Comments
President Obama is getting ready to kick his reelection campaign into high gear. As such, it's an opportune time to take a look back at his achievements in the environmental arena thus far -- and that's precisely what Slate's Green Lantern has done here , serving the president an environmental report card for his first term. Go see how ...
Read more...9MW New Jersey Solar Roof Will Be Biggest in the USA
published July 13, 2011 and has No Comments
Excuse the helicopters. It was surprisingly hard to find an image of the Gloucester facility. Image credit: Holt Logistics When I wrote about Renault's 60MW solar project in France , I noted that it is getting hard to decide what is impressive these days in the world of solar power. No sooner do I write about a refrigerated warehouse ...
Read more...Awesome Giant Wooden Comb As Bike Rack By Popup Design
published July 2, 2011 and has No Comments
Photos: Popup Design Whether they rotate vertically , loop and twist or arch , the concept of bike racks as fixtures of public art is here to stay. In an effort to promote bike-friendliness in Roanoke, VA, the city is getting its very own piece of intriguing cycling art in the form of a giant wooden comb. This whimsical ...
Read more...Voters Want Clean Energy, Not Drilling, Poll Finds
published May 4, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Mike Baird via Flickr /CC BY I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But they're persisting -- they falsely claim that rising gas prices could be alleviated ...
Read more...Exposed Memo Reveals Definite Ties Between Big Oil and Iraq Invasion
published April 19, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: US Army The notion that the Iraq war was really about oil is far beyond speculation -- it floats somewhere in that ambiguous realm between generally accepted and assumed-to-be-fact. So the breaking news that a newly exposed secret memo reveals that national governments actually negotiated with oil companies before invading Iraq should surprise a total of about ...
Read more...It’s Tax Day. But Not for Exxon, Which Pays $0 in Federal Taxes
published April 18, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: US House Committee on Natural Resources Here on the East Coast, it's evening time, and many of you out there are scrambling to e-file your taxes before the deadline hits in a few hours. And as you wonder if there's any way you can get that refund number to look a bit bigger on TurboTax, keep this in ...
Read more...New Federal Budget Cuts EPA 16%, Removes Wolves from Endangered Species List
published April 12, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: Abeeeer via Flickr / CC BY Late last Friday, with just an hour and a half or so left on the clock, Democrats and the GOP struck a budget compromise that prevented a shutdown of the federal government. The 'debate', if you want to call it that -- though I suppose it was more civil than, say, ...
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Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem 2012-02-08
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
More in this category ...Google Tops Greenpeace’s Clean IT List
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
