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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An overcrowded bus in Istanbul. Image: Scene from " Overdrive ." The Istanbul most visitors see -- the Istanbul of palaces and soaring minarets, of ferries on the Bosphorus, bargaining in the bazaar, and bustling nightlife -- lies within just a few of the city's more than 1,000 total square miles. The other Istanbul is the one I watch ...
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Staten Island Ferry photo via wikipedia commons In 2008, Jacques Guillet, walked out of a Manhattan Municipal Building, $162,000 poorer, but the proud owner of a used 3,500-passenger Staten Island Ferry. The former marina owner and sailboat racer had a plan to convert the ferry into a floating dorm for New York college students. The numbers seemed at first ...
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photo via Moriza at flickr Our friends at Grist have posted a great video that artfully captures the joy of bike riding in the city. Grist writer Sarah Goodyear wrote about a video from Noa Cortes, blogger at NYC Cycle Chic , which shows the high fashions worn by many of the beautiful people riding a bike in an ...
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Photo: YouTube In 1908, the Ford Motor Company began production on the Model T, rocketing automobiles into the mainstream. That same year, Octavio Orduño of Long Beach was born -- but as a youngster, he always wanted bike. Over the next 103 years, the descendants of that early car eventually changed the way we see the world, and indeed ...
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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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It's a Tool to Properly Allocate and Value Scarce Public Space Economics 101 tells us that if we take something valuable and scarce and offer it for a very low price, demand is probably going to exceed supply and we'll end up with rationing, which can manifest itself as a queue outside of a store or traffic jams in ...
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GreenTech Media has an excellent guest post from Rick Defieux, looking at the positive factors in Asia and negative factors in the US that is helping countries in the east, namely China, catapult above the rest of the world in the realm of cleantech. "Evidence is mounting that government-subsidized R&D, beneficial manufacturing conditions and cheap capital are helping to ...
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Nutty billboard-on-wheels with recycled vinyl signage hits road on environmental mission. Photo by RCruger The goofy looking Nutmobile is headed to New Orleans on a 16-city tour through summer to show off its green features, including a wind turbine, solar panels and reclaimed wood floors from a 19th century Pennsylvania barn. It will house Mr. Peanut, who can pop ...
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Photo: Screen grabs from video Chapter 1: The New City Our Dear Leader was interviewed for a documentary series about the future of mobility. The first instalment is about our increasingly urban future and how mega-cities are, in Graham's words, "very efficient sharing systems". Graham also gives us a quick tour of his extremely space-efficient apartment (see LifeEdited for ...
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This should come to no surprise to anyone even casually familiar with how cosy ever recent US administration has been with Big Ag (and Monsanto in particular): GM Watch reports that at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the director of USAID stood beside CEOs from Monsanto and other ag giants to push a "New Vision of Agriculture"--which really ...
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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 ...
