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: Leo Newball Jr. under a Creative Commons license . In the last few years, New York City has banned smoking just about everywhere , lit the Statue of Liberty with wind power , and put forward a plan to renovate its waterfront , and much o... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Crowdsourced Ideas Show New ...
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All Images Courtesy of the City of Paris The proposed design for the river bank between the Tuileries Gardens and the Musee d'Orsay. There's a lot going on in Paris these days: the City is in the process of redesigning at least ten different neighborhoods, and a full 10% of its surface space is covered by construction work. Now, ...
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Photo: Bogota Environmental Office. Between 1999 and 2004, there was one death a year due to the falling of trees or branches in Columbia's capital city, Bogota. Though general wisdom says trees are good, this city proves that with poor planning, wrong species in the wrong places, and bad policies around the management of urban green spaces, trees can ...
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Last week, I wrote about the four finalists in the Minneapolis Riverfront Design Competition . All four were impressive entries, but one had to come out on top, and yesterday the winner was announced: Tom Leader Studio of Berkeley, Calif., and Kennedy & Violich Architecture of Boston. Their RiverFIRST p... Read the full story on TreeHugger View post: Berkeley/Boston Team ...
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Image credit TD Bank I thought I was very careful and considered in my discussion of TD's Net Zero Energy bank branch. I described what good environmental corporate citizens they were and how happy I was as a customer. But I did point out that it was plopped in the middle of a sea of asphalt and that the ...
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What will limit growth in travel: fuel prices or gridlock? Image credit Aidan.Morgan A new study of travel habits in eight industrialized countries (including United States, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia) comes to some interesting conclusions: people are travelling less, and it is not just due to higher fuel prices. Historically, as GDP per ...
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Photo: Till Westermayer under a Creative Commons license . At TreeHugger, we regularly extol the virtues of walkable neighborhoods and cities: denser urban areas have higher property values and a better quality of life ; they consume less energy per capita than any other kind of environment, especially the suburbs ( which make you fat ). Now a study ...
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Photo by lrargerich via Flickr Creative Commons What are city trees really worth? Just how much of a contribution do they make to cityscapes, and how can we calculate the pricetag? A software program called i-Tree helps to save urban trees by pinpointing their value. Created by the US Forest Service, the program hammers out cost-benefit calculations to quantify ...
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Source: City of Providence, Rhode Island The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the Providence River. The bridge will create a new connection for pedestrians and bicyclists from the Fox Point and College Hill neighborhoods to ...
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Original photo: this lyre lark / CC They might not be too effective when it comes chasing down vandals or spooking away would-be burglars -- but it turns out that our humble city trees may be apt crime-fighters, nonetheless. According to the findings of a new report , data suggests that there's a relationship betwee... Read the full story ...
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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 ...
"The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions," says the study's lead researcher. Here is the original post: Lasers Used to Generate Remarkably Detailed 3D ...
