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
published October 2, 2010 and has No Comments
Image credit: Inhabitat.com Help get out the vote , is what you want to do. Writing blog posts and messing with social media are insufficient. Tweeting is futile. Practical examples follow. Volunteer to staff a phone bank. Or offer to drive likely voters to the polls at their convenience . This is especially important if they are aged or ...
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Modern GE refrigerator with Armoire Styling Image credit: GE . Today's refrigerators use two-thirds less electricity than models sold in the mid-1970s. Remarkable by itself; but when you consider that refrigerator size has gone up dramatically over that period, and that water filters and computer screens and in-door ice makers have become increasingly common features, it is astounding. And ...
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'Full metal jacket' - copper covered - bullet example. Image credit: Sportsmens Guide. A group of small 'environmental groups' that I never heard of before are upset that USEPA recently turned down a petition to ban the use of all lead bullets (the part at the end of the cartridge), nationwide. They seem to infer the Agency was swayed ...
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Texas coal mine locations. Image credit: Energy Report - Coal; Window On State Governmen t, via TX Railroad Commission. USEPA is proposing that, by this coming January, permit applications for especially energy intensive operations cover greenhouse gases. That would include facility modifications as well as new plants and periodic updates of permits. In response, "the chairman of the Texas ...
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Energy stock performance snapshot. Image credit: Google Finance Pablo recently filled us in on the abrupt end of the Climate Leaders voluntary carbon reporting program . (Eight years with a relatively small group of industries was enough.) In parallel, a group of US states worked up a carbon reporting protocol as well; and, there are several NGO and government-led ...
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Deerslayer book cover picture excerpt. Image credit: Wikipedia As one commenter on this trend states, seeking constitutional protection of the right to fish and hunt seems to be something of a 'tempest in a tea pot.' PETA celebrities have Deerslayer's leather stockings in a bundle, apparently. How else could you explain 10 US states amending their constitutions to protect ...
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Taylorville Illinois Energy Center, a proposed "clean coal" power plant. Image credit: Illinois Times Southern Illinois has vast, easily accessible coal reserves. That coal may be sulfurous and wet and salty; but ,Southern Illinois also has good geologic features for CO2 sequestration, plus Presidential root tendrils are there. These aspects explain, in a last-year kind of way, why Obama's ...
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" Corn falls into the East Nishnabotna River in Montgomery County, Iowa. Severe row crop land erosion is occurring along the river. " Caption/image credit, this and subsquent images:Gannon, Desmoines Register The dramatic pictures you see in this post speak for themselves: Iowa crop land and even corn falling directly into a river. They symbolize mismanagement of the land ...
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Redneck Yacht Club member. Image credit: Redneck Village , "These R My People." Proper treehuggers follow Lloyd's admonition to keep living space down to just what you need to get by. The owner of the pictured "house boat," officially a member of the Redneck Yacht Club, gains easy entry to treehugger-dom - at least on vacation. I just hope ...
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SPOT emergency personal communicator device, with "SOS" button. Image credit: Amazon ad . Many younger Americans, devoid of such early life experiences as one would get from Boy Scouting or hunting with experienced companions, emboldened by a proliferation of cheap GPS devices, and perhaps encouraged by the recent outpouring of 'survival shows' are doing the dumb dance into the ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"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
