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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Photo: Rule Hibernia And the federal invest-a-thon in clean technologies continues -- first a smidgen for solar , then a huge boost for high speed rail , and now, a decent investment in offshore wind. The Obama administration announced plans to sink $50.5 million into research and development for offshore wind power ... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...
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Photo: EPL Don't pay attention to those oil company ads that claim they're devoting time and resources towards working on clean energy solutions -- just look at the graph below. The chart, which Climate Crocks reminds us of today , shows just how little the energy sector spends on research and development compared to other innovation-based industries. 0.3%. That's ...
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A new Gallup poll has revealed some pretty interesting stuff about what Americans want to see done this year, legislatin'-wise. Coming out on the very top was this little nugget: 83% of Americans want Congress to "pass an energy bill that would provide incentives for using solar and other alternative energy sources." Yup, more Americans agree with that act ...
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Photo: Telefunker Purdue University has just announced that it's scuttling plans to build a coal plant to provide power to its campus in Indiana. That closure, the Sierra Club tells Reuters, marks something of a happy milestone: It's the 150th coal plant to be abandoned in less than a decade. So what's spurred the spree of ditching coal? ... ...
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See? Obama still cares about climate change! Despite keeping largely silent on the issue over the last year or two, failing to speak up to save the climate bill from certain death in the Senate, and not giving it any mention at all during his State of the Union address , he still wants Americans to address climate change. He ...
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This should come to no surprise to anyone even casually familiar with how cosy ever recent US administration has been with Big Ag (and Monsanto in particular): GM Watch reports that at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the director of USAID stood beside CEOs from Monsanto and other ag giants to push a "New Vision of Agriculture"--which really ...
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Image credit: Peak Moment TV The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model has widened its scope of late. From a community supported kitchen , through a grain-growing, sail-powered CSA , to community supported bee... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: How to Start a Community Supported Bakery (Video)
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Image: Sportsnewscaster The National Football League has announced that it will be offsetting pretty much all of Super Bowl XLV's energy expenditures this year -- an amount that evidently adds up to a staggering 15,000 megawatt hours. They'll be offsetting the energy use with renewable energy certificates provided by Just Energy , and it will cover a long list ...
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Photo: Chicago Press Release Perhaps one of the most controversial elements of the BP spill saga was the oil giant's use of large quantities of chemical dispersent Corexit to attempt to break down the oil both spewing from the wellhead and on the slick on the ocean surface. The EPA told BP to stop the practice, but the company ...
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Photo: Flickr, ca2hill , CC When I wrote my reactions to Obama's State of the Union address last week, I mentioned how disappointing it was that he didn't take the chance to engage the American public on the issue of climate change. The most common retort to this was along the lines of well, actions speak louder than words ...
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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 ...
