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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Image from wsj.online We are always extolling the virtues of garage sales; the joy of recycling and re-using and respecting perfectly good finds. And then there is the joy of Ansel Adams' photography: he was one of the original environmentalists who understood the beauty and inspirational quality of nature. Imagine these two coming together: a man in California bought ...
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Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, addresses the guests at Terra-Gen Power's ground breaking ceremony for Alta Wind Energy Center in Mojave, California. Photo: Rod Thornburg It's been a while since we've seen an honest to goodness gigantic wind power project actually start construction, so this is definitely worth noting: Terra-Gen ...
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Images of krill and blule whale via wikipedia Amid all the bad news about marine ecosystems needing life support around the world, there is a tiny spot of happy news today on the ocean beat. Actually, a big spot, a blue whale-sized spot. In an incredible show, blue whales are crowding into Monterey Bay this month to feed on ...
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The best easily digestible-but-accurate synopsis I've read on climate change in quite a while wasn't written by a climate scientist, or a green writer for that matter. Nope, it was written by a top hedge fund manager. True story. See, in Jeremy Grantham 's second quarter letter to investors, he included a one-page segment called Everything You Need to ...
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Image: NOAA, public domain. Until the Next Storm Tropical storm Bonnie, which we wrote about on Friday , forced the evacuation of cleanup crews and of people working on the relief well that will permanently plug the leaking oil well. But over the weekend Bonnie lost a lot of its energy and ended up disintegrating into a bunch of ...
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Photo via Hayes Valley Farm I was just at Hayes Valley Farm this past Sunday, volunteering at the urban farm turning a crumbling freeway into crop land for local food production and education. I was working within 15 feet of two bee hives the entire time and barely noticed the insects as they went about their busy day. With ...
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Photos via Save The Bay Cargill, a Minnesota-based agribusiness goliath, is looking to spread its real estate ownership to San Francisco. However, its planned development of as many as 30,000 residents is aimed at an ecologically vital area of the bay -- the Redwood City salt ponds. Cargill calls it an industrial wasteland, but agencies who issue permission for ...
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photo via flickr Although it may be in some trouble, California's aggressive goal of attaining 33 percent of its energy from clean renewable energy by 2020 is still on track--for now at least. In fact, wind energy in the state got a shot in the arm today when Terra-Gen Power LLC announced that it has secured $1.2 billion of ...
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Photo via StormyDog Good news for water thanks to San Diego. The city is home to over 1.25 million people, all of whom are feeling the pinch of water restrictions after a drought emergency was called last year. San Diego set a goal of an 8% reduction in water use, which they flew past with a fantastic 11% reduction ...
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Photo: CC, via dicktay2000 Whether they have heard our cries for cleaner perfume , or not, executives and leaders from the world of fragrance believe that a sustainable business model must be adopted to "reinvent" the industry, and help boost dwindling sales. From Read more: Has the Fragrance Industry Heard Our Cries for Greener Perfume?
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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 ...
