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: Smart Log Splitter From effective masonry heaters to beautiful Danish wood stoves , the Scandinavians know a thing or two about heating with wood. And as Collin stated in his post on wood stoves vs pellet stoves , with trees being a near carbon neutral source of energy, efficient wood burn... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Image credit: Lifefactory As a rule, I am not one of these greenies that gets overly excited about new reusable bottles. I have an old reusable bottle somewhere, and it occasionally gets used when I venture out of the house—but I've always been a little confused by the amount of attention paid to fancy reusable bottles and their cousins, ...
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The Utah prairie dog. Photo by Dean Biggins, U.S. Geological Survey. Guest blogger NaturallySavvy.com is dedicated to natural and organic living. Plague once struck mortal fear in humans, but it's a thing of the past, right? Not so, according to research published in a special issue of the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases , which focused solely on plague. ...
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Image: Youtube Cool Statistic of the Day Who knew a hockey game could be so energy-intensive? According to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that oversee's the power grid in Ontario and balances supply and demand, the final hockey game of the Vancouver Olympics (Canada vs USA) created a spike of about 300 megawatts in the province, with additional ...
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Missouri coal train, photo: Scott Granneman via flickr. As Grist pointed out yesterday, the US now has 15 states with resolutions attempting to prevent limits on greenhouse gas pollution . Add to that West Virginia Senator John Rockefeller's bill, just introduced, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating stationary sources of pollution for effectively four years. Is ...
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Forest recovering after the B&B Complex fire in 2003 in the central Oregon Cascade Range. Photo by Garrett Meigs, Oregon State University via Flickr . Guest blogger Cara Smusiak is a journalist and regular contributor to NaturallySavvy.com 's Naturally Green section. About half of the overstory trees were killed in the B&B Complex fire in 2003 near Canyon Creek ...
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Without a commercial trade ban, illustrations and photos will be the only Atlantic bluefin tuna the world sees. Image: Wikipedia . Some good news for critically endangered Atlantic bluefin tuna : The Obama administration says it will back a proposal to place the species in Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species , thereby prohibiting ...
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Photo: Ecologic Brands Some weeks ago we were sent a media release describing what was considered a "first-of-its-kind bottle." The Ecologic Brands hybrid milk bottle is biodegradable, compostable and recyclable. We say hybrid because it is really two bottles in one. The outer shell is made from 100% recycled cardboard, using the same paper pulp methods that create egg ...
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Image: Clean Energy Works March 2-4: Contact Your Elected Representatives A new campaign pushing for comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation in the U.S. is underway. It's called " 72 Hours For Clean American Power ", and it urges Americans to contact their elected representatives, write letters to newspapers, and spread the word on social media sites (f.ex. check ...
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Image credit: We Want Facebook to Use 100% Renewable Energy It's already well known that Facebook is caught between a rock and a Greenpeace with its decision to move to a power-hungry coal-fired data center. And even though Facebook could eliminate 75% of its energy use by changing its code , at its present rate of growth it is ...
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Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in ...
Image credit: Andrew Zuckerman When Andrew Zuckerman , a renowned commercial photographer, turned his lens on animals, the result was a series of striking images that resonate with emotion. Collected in his book Read more from the original source: Captivating ...
