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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BLW Photography via flickr While all eyes are on Japan and a few eyes are on nuclear plants in the U.S. , there's other news on the radiation front, this story coming out of southern Illinois. Honeywell pled guilty earlier this month to one felony offense ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Radioactive Pollution in Illinois: Honeywell ...
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Three Gorges Dam. Photo by Britrob via Flickr Creative Commons Knowing that China is hurting for water , it comes as no surprise that the country is setting aside a massive $30 billion for water conservation during 2011. China's rapid growth could be stalled by water shortages , which is needed for everything from manufacturing to mining to generating ...
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Image: TreeHugger Looking back at 2010, it's clear that the Gulf Oil Spill is the story that will headline environmental history books. But it's not the only memorable one: From nearly invisible mirrored treehouses to strange pale and blind ants found in the Amazon to See the rest here: The Most Popular and Memorable Stories of 2010
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Photo by James "Tre" Hayes via Flickr Creative Commons It's usually the southwestern US that makes the news for its water woes, what with its deserts climates and high populations. However, researchers state that the southeast is in just as much trouble when it comes to having adequate water supplies for future years. From issues to storing enough water, ...
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Image: Worrell Water Technologies Enter the United States at the Otay Mesa Port of Entry on the Mexican border, and you'll never know just by looking around that you're walking through a "living machine" wastewater recycling system. But when installation is complete, a custom-designed system will treat and recycle wastewater on site, reducing "generation of wastewater and demand for ...
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Image: Ari Moore via flickr Apparently New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg shares at least some of the concerns about natural gas drilling—known as hydraulic fracturing , or fracking—that communities and environmentalists have about its safety. He... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Mayor Bloomberg Warns Against Fracking in Delaware River Basin
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Image credit: John Todd Ecological Dr John Todd's work creating living machines, or ecomachines, as a form of natural water treatment has long been of interest to TreeHugger. Back in 2005 Collin interviewed Dr Todd about his views on ecological design , and we celebrated when this pioneer of clean water won the Buckminster Fuller challenge award . But ...
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Nestle, the world's top-selling bottled water company, has been trying to win the right to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge annually, and wants to justify it as environmentally sound by simply replacing it with municipal well water. Oregon citizens are angry. More than 4,300 comments have poured in decrying the ...
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Photo via PhillipC The Pacific Institute has released a new report titled "California's Next Million Acre-Feet: Saving Water, Energy and Money that outlines the steps the state can take to come up with its next one million acre-feet of water. All of it would be relatively easy and a whole lot cheaper than trying to drum up even more ...
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"We all live downstream from one another," says Alexandra Cousteau. In other words, what we do to the water, we do to ourselves. A third-generation Cousteau explorer, Alexandra is an ambassador of the sea. She's the host of Planet Green's Blue August , is currently traveling the world as a documentarian with her organization Blue Legacy , and, when ...
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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 ...
