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 credit: The Sierra Club /Flickr This guest post was contributed by Robert Redford. A small minority of Senators robbed America of a cleaner, more prosperous future last week. In the middle of the biggest oil disaster in American history , the hottest summer on record, and a war with an oil-rich nation, this group of cynics blocked efforts ...
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Photo via the Wall Street Journal The future of climate policy is very much up in the air right now. With comprehensive energy reform evidently dead in Congress -- though Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs says this isn't necessarily the case -- many are wondering how efforts to curb carbon nationwide can proceed from here.... Read the full story ...
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Adam Stein once wrote dismissively of vertical farming : "the notion of spending "hundreds of millions" of dollars to build weird, poorly sited temples of food production in areas much better suited to dense, green residential and retail space.... Local food has its merits, but that's what New Jersey is for." I wonder what he would think of Dr. ...
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Photo by clogozm Every year, the Natural Resources Defense Council runs a survey of our beaches and marine habitats to find out which are safe and which need help to recover from abuse. Earlier in the month, the organization put out a map specifically of beaches closed by the Gulf oil disaster . But now, its 2010 report for ...
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Photo via the Guardian I know I've ranted and raved a fair amount about the ignominious death of comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation . But lest we all head into our weekends wholly downtrodden and helpless-feeling, a few more words need to be uttered before the casket is lowered into the ground for good (am I getting carried ...
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Image via Motivated Photos Well, the waiting game is over. Questions swirling around what the whittled-down climate and clean energy legislation would look like -- Will it go after utilities' carbon emissions ? Will it mandate clean energy production ? -- have turned out to be moot. You see, the Democrats have opted for another approach, perhaps one inspired ...
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Photo via A Green Living It's kind of amazing to me the bad rap that the stimulus bill has gotten since its passage a year and a half ago -- a recent poll found that something like only 13% of Americans felt it helped them. Of course, much of the nation's disdain can be attributed to the fact that ...
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Photo via Boston Politico , the right-leaning, beltway-insider political magazine, has run a must-read op-ed by four of the nation's leading climate scientists . These four scientists have recently testified before Congress about the urgent need to act on climate change, and the piece explains why. Here's the gist of it: ... Read the full story on TreeHugger More: Climate ...
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If at any point during your observation of this interminable oil crisis in the Gulf you've found yourself thinking, well, it looks like we should probably do something to start curbing our national dependence on this stuff, know that you're not alone. And if, like me, you're starting to get pretty ticked off that there seems to be absolutely ...
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Photo via MLive After the passing of the nation's longest-serving senator, the obituaries have been generally focusing on a similar narrative: That Robert Byrd (D-WV) was a man of transformations. From Ku Klux Klansmen to a supporter of Barack Obama. But most of these obits are omitting another important transformation the late senator underwent; from a longtime supporter of ...
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The office building, going for LEED Platinum, is built on top of a brick factory from another era. It rises to the challenge. Go here to read the rest: The Centre For Green Cities At Evergreen Brickworks Demonstrates How To ...
"The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises." View original here: Geoengineering is a Technical Fix for a Political Problem
