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: A Girl With Tea / Creative Commons Oh no! If you're a tea lover like this TreeHugger then some reporting from The Guardian comes as doubly dire news: Apparently climate change is both reducing crop yields of India's Assam tea and changing its much-prized characteristic flavor. Besides being a personal issue of tea preference--Assam tea ... Read the ...
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Image via FlyingSinger Modeling systems are incredibly helpful for anticipating the effects of everything from weather to policy decisions on the environment and human populations. They can simulate what might happen when a storm hits a coastline or a new farming policy is enacted that could impact ground water. Typically modeling systems are specific to topics or geographic areas. ...
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photo: Marcin Wichary / Creative Commons Given climate change's complexity, anything that breaks it down into more intellectually digestible bits without dumbing it down is a good thing. The latest in that category comes from Skeptical Science (via Read more: Human-Caused Climate Change Based on Consensus of Evidence, Not Just Consensus of Scientists
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Image: Stenyian The latest round of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks has revealed that climate negotiators in the US State Dept. were the target of a sophisticated hacker attack last year. The attacks were timed to coincide with the run-up to the climate talks in Copenhagen, at a point when China and the US were in the midst of ...
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Last week, a boat in the Amazon spilled around 210,000 gallons of popcorn into a major river, making the surface of the water look a bit like the floor of a movie theater. Find out how oil workers came to the rescue, below, and read on for more stories from the world of green, including photos of the beautiful ...
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A still from a video about trash pickers in Turkey. Image: ' Turkey's Changemakers ' Before there were municipal sanitation workers emptying dumpsters into their big blue trucks , other garbage men gathered trash in Istanbul neighborhoods, picking out scraps of paper or empty bottles to resell. Those that continue plying their trade toda... Read the full story on ...
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photo: Nicholas / Creative Commons While it may sound like a good thing on the face of it, cloud cover being reduced by 10% over the next 90 years due to climate change, that additional amount of blue sky could mean that we're in for more temperature increases--that's according to research done at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, ...
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photo: Jason McHuff / Creative Commons For months now, indeed for nearly all of 2010, the hopes for a global climate deal coming out of COP16, now underway in Cancun, Mexico, have been downplayed again and again. In fact, on the second day of talks Marc Gunther over at GreenBiz produced a list of Continued here: COP16 May Fail to ...
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We've entered a political era in the United States that's distinctly hostile to climate science -- a pretty stunning number of the new Congressmen coming to the Hill next year claim that climate change isn't real , or that it isn't caused by man. Meanwhile, the scien... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: GOP Congressman Calls ...
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Photo credit: Astig!! / Creative Commons It's interesting to me that many people judge Los Angeles without really knowing her. She really is the City of Angels. I've lived in Los Angeles for going on a dozen years now, and at long last I can affirmatively state that I have found "my tribe." I'm referring to a group of ...
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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
