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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Many Gulf Coast residents' lives have been changed by the BP spill -- whether through lost jobs, health woes, marred property values, or otherwise. And while a cumbersome system has been put in place to pay out claims made by impacted residents, it by no means will right all the wrongs imparted upon the region over the course of the ...
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Fukushima #3 Photo credit: daveeza via Flickr / CC BY-SA After an accident in any high-profile industry that makes the public nervous, it's pretty common to see business interests, regulators, and public officials rush to assure everybody that the incident was a fluke, and that the power plants running elsewhere are safe, safe, safe. We saw it with the ...
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Photos: Ryan Novelline Think children's books are only suitable for tots to read (or chew) on? Well, they've finally gone from cute to glam with Boston-based designer Ryan Novelline 's gorgeous gown, made entirely from pages taken from discarded children's books. Check out how this fairytale dress was created from start to finish: ... Read the full story on ...
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Graph via Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature This week, a climate hearing was held in the US House of Reps. Six 'experts' on climate were brought in, but only three were scientists. And it turns out that one of the GOP's star witnesses -- a scientist who's been vocal in his skepticism of global temperature records, the physicist Richard Muller, ...
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Photo credit: ^riza^ via Flickr / CC BY Oh politics. How inane thou art. Take this fun pack o' lies that keeps cropping up like clockwork every few years when gas prices rise: That if we'd just open up all of that sweet, sweet American coastline and heartland for drilling, prices at the pump would come tumbling down! Politicians ...
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Photo Credit: laverrue via Flickr / CC BY In Cleantech, Anyhow Sort of has a certain ring to it, doesn't it? Don't worry, the US is still the world's number one economic superpower -- though some analysts say we'll be taking a backseat to China in coming decades. But when it comes to clean energy, we've slipped even further ...
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Above, you will find a very reasonable conservative politician discussing climate policy. I'm posting this video to invite you all on a nostalgic journey back to the halcyon days of the American climate debate in politics -- way back in 2008. Way back before even acknowledging that the existence of climate science was taboo in conservative political circles. Back before ...
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Want to know what it'll cost to shut down the aging, embattled and oh-so-close to New York City (just 35 miles away) Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant ? Well, utility ConEd has just released an assessment of that: $65 a year more on electricity bills. Which, as SmartPlanet points out, is just 18 cents a day. ... Read the ...
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Photo: vxla . Flickr This should serve as an indication of how old and toxic some of our nation's coal-fired power plants are: Just a day after the EPA announced its new proposal for limiting the amount of toxic emissions power plants can spew out, Georgia Power released a statement saying it will be taking two of its plants ...
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Please forward this post to your Republican Congressman I was just thinking a bit about the GOP's unanimous vote in the House Energy Committee to deny the existence of climate change , and it occurred to me that there's probably a good explanation for it: Nobody's ever taken the time to explain to you guys what climate change really ...
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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 ...
