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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The nuclear crisis is worsening every day in Japan -- last-ditch attempts to cool the reactors are proving fruitless, and the world is watching with dread. No matter what happens next, nuclear power will have its brand tainted something awful -- which in turn will have serious impacts on nations' plans for meeting future energy demand. Germany has already ...
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Photo credit: Tiffany Threadgould/Sterling Press This guest post was written by Tiffany Threadgould, author of the book ReMake It! , available now, from Sterling Publishing. Have you ever used an empty glass jar as a drinking glass or turned an old tin can into a pencil holder? If the answer is yes, then you've already had fun ReMaking It! ...
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Photo by Boaz Arad via Flickr Creative Commons At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco this week, a panel of experts was asked about whether or not companies still care about carbon accounting. While the topic had a lot of buzz around it a couple years ago, it seems to have quieted down over the past year, despite the ...
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Please forward this post to your Republican Congressman I was just thinking a bit about the GOP's unanimous vote in the House Energy Committee to deny the existence of climate change , and it occurred to me that there's probably a good explanation for it: Nobody's ever taken the time to explain to you guys what climate change really ...
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According to documents released by Wikileaks and seen by The Telegraph , as recently as December 2008 an official from the International Atomic Energy Agency expressed concern that strong earthquakes posed a "serious problem" for nuclear plants, that safety rules were out of date.... Read the full story on TreeHugger Go here to read the rest: Japan Warned Three Years ...
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Photo credit: Jesslee Cuizon / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Care2 , the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. While international relief organizations are pouring into Japan to help people after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, a handful of animal welfare groups are pulling ...
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Image: NOAA NOAA 's been really pretty great about generating compelling and informative animations and graphics in the wake of natural disasters, and the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is no exception. Check out the one below (h/t SmartPlanet ):... Read the full story on TreeHugger More here: Watch Powerful NOAA Animation of Japan Tsunami Racing Across Pacific (Video)
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Image: Calfinder All eyes have justifiably been glued to the ongoing crises in Japan -- the ravaged coastal towns and nuclear meltdowns -- that were caused by a massive 8.9 earthquake that propelled a tsunami into the nation's western coast. When disasters of such scale occur, it invariably gives way to much reflection in the media around rest of ...
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Photo: Globalwarming.org Aaand for our dose of Friday afternoon snark, we turn to a source where we might least expect biting sarcasm: from a sitting US Congressman. Yes, in response to the GOP's headlong legislative assault on science itself -- an effort to overturn a scientific finding they and their corporate backers find inconvenient -- the Massachusetts Representative lobbed ...
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Spring is quickly approaching and you know what that means - time to throw open the windows, brush away the cobwebs and beautify our homes for the warmer weather. While you clean and preen, why not take some time to green as well? If you need some help getting started, Inhabitat has a star-studded lineup of green home experts ...
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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 ...
