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: Leo Newball Jr. under a Creative Commons license . In the last few years, New York City has banned smoking just about everywhere , lit the Statue of Liberty with wind power , and put forward a plan to renovate its waterfront , and much o... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more here: Crowdsourced Ideas Show New ...
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Image Courtesy of Beckmann N'Thépé The Leningrad, or St Petersburg Zoo, founded in 1865, is the oldest in Russia, and its age is indicative of its condition. Built in a time when zoos were designed to put animals on display rather than as centers of research and learning where the animals are well treated, this zoo suffers from a ...
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Graphic Credit: Metropolis Magazine Metropolis Magazine is celebrating its 30th year anniversary this year (2011). To mark the occasion, they partnered with the Education Legacy Fund (ELF) to inaugurate an annual series of open, constructive dialogues about what is shaping twenty-first century design and how designers are responding to the evolution of culture. The first event was held March ...
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All images: © Luc Boegly, Courtesy of Christian Pottgiesser Talk about an urban jungle. In Paris' tenth arronidissement, two companies, Pons and Huot, share one of the more remarkable offices in the city. "Forest Through the Table," the work of architect Christian Pottgiesser , is the result of a 2005-2006 renovation of an old industrial workshop. Taking advantage of ...
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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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Russian prefabricated housing Image Credit: Soviet Photography There are many in the States who think urbanism is a socialist plot and deny that people are moving back to the cities . As Joe Mysak wrote in Bloomberg a couple of years ago, when gas was hitting $4.00/gallon: The notion appeals especially to people who like to think they'll ... ...
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Photo Courtesy of Virginia Krakowiak Just outside of Portland, Oregon, on a small local certified organic workers´ farm collective (that´s a mouthful), a small cabin is being built. Measuring just 16´x 20´ ( small is the new big ), it will house farmers during the harvest season. But what´s remarkable about the cabin is not what it´s for, but ...
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Photo: B. Alter: Spun, Heatherwick Studio The Brit Insurance Design Awards are a showcase for the best international design. Now in its fourth year, there are over one hundred fabulous projects nominated. These will be narrowed down to one big winner, announced in March, 2011. Which one will it be? The two really big categories are Products , which ...
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Photo: oda: Velodrome London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. Happily, sanity has prevailed and the massive Olympic Stadium which was under threat of demolition will now be retained as a football (soccer) stadium. But ...
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French designer Jean-Marie Massaud's "Green Islands." Image: Offecct . It won't quite replace the feeling of lying on the grass underneath a big shade tree, but office workers and others needing a respite in the middle of the day would likely welcome a Swedish design firm's concept for a "green island" that brings a bit of the great outdoors ...
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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 ...
