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 via US Geological Survey The impact of ocean acidification on sea life is becoming better understood in areas like coral reefs, where impacts like bleaching, altered shells of crustaceans , and even a Go here to see the original: Ocean Acidification Changing Polar Waters Fastest
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Image by milena mihaylova Sewage is a surprising resource when it comes to harvesting energy during its treatment. According to researchers from Oregon State University, investing a little more in sewage could provide substantially bigger yields. They've found that adding gold nano-coatings to the anode chamber of a fuel cell could help produce 20 times more electricity from sewage ...
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Image via Water for People A few years ago, we reported on the PlayPump, a design that incorporates the power of kids at play to pump and store drinking water for communities in Rural Africa. Five years ago, it seemed like a brilliant idea with a lot of potential, and following the designs release it did get a lot ...
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Since 1992, federal regulations have required that shower heads deliver no more than 2.5 gallons per minute. But that never stopped companies like Grohe from putting a half dozen of them together to fire at models in their advertising. Some of these multiple head showers pump out 12 gallons per minute. But that is changing; the Wall Street Journal ...
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See original here: Today on Planet 100: Shark Finning 101
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In this Sierra Club video, athletes speak about their trip to the Gulf Oil Spill. I am back home from my second trip to Louisiana since the oil spill. This time I was joined by other professional athletes to take a tour of the massive environmental catastrophe that is the Gulf oi... Read the full story on TreeHugger Here ...
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Here is the original: Planet 100: China Oil Spill (Video)
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Photo via Wikipedia It's an old battle, and a cruel one. The Botswana government wants the Bushmen of the Kalahari off of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, one of the driest areas of the world but also one the bushmen have called home for thousands of years. Labeling them essentially poachers and squatters, the government uses water as a ...
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Photo via Reiner Schubert As our global water crisis persists, we're hearing more and more about the use of desalination as a viable source of drinking water. Desalination used to be written off as an energy-intensive way to separate salt from water, used on ships as the only option for supplying fresh water, or for communities in the Middle ...
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Image via YouTube video Uganda has been the site of severe turmoil since civil war broke out in the early 1980s. For the last few years, people have been returning home to northern Uganda to find that their water infrastructure is in ruins. However, with organizational help from Action Against Hunger, ACF International and financial support from European and ...
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Save the sea creatures! Handcraft your own natural specimens using these these simple patterns, some yarn and a crochet hook. View post: 8 Enchanting Sea Creatures You Can Crochet
A Finnish designer has made a working surfboard from broken skateboards. Read the original here: Hollow Surfboard Is Made from Broken Skateboards
