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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Home-brewing gets chic with this pared-down kit that brings wine-making out of the basement and into the living room or kitchen. Read more here: Elegant DIY Wine-Making Kit by Sabine Marcelis (Video)
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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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Image: Liz via flickr Mayors from across the country have sent a letter to Hillary Clinton, whose office has been rather quiet on the issue , expressing their concern over the proposed Keystone XL Originally posted here: 25 U.S. Mayors Speak Out Against Tar Sands Pipeline
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Photo: Michael Graham Richard A Bulb from the Future! It Looks Like it Belongs on a Spaceship The Philips AmbientLED 12.5-watt A19 LED lightbulb (quite a name!) is probably the favorite LED bulb that I've tried so far. It beats the competition when it comes to light output (800 lumens vs. 450-590 lumens for the other LEDs that I've ...
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Study NY by Tara St. James, New York Fashion Week Fall 2011. Photo: Emma Grady Next up in our on-site coverage of the best of green couture at New York Fashion Week is 2011 Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation winner Study NY by Tara St. James , who schools us in zero-waste pa... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read ...
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photo: Franz Drewniak / Creative Commons Sometime later this year the human population will pass the 7 billion mark. As I write this we're at 6.9 billion and ticking upwards by about one person a second, or so the population clock at Global Population Speak Out tells me. Even with the widely (widely) disparate levels of natural resource consumption ...
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Earth2Tech's John St. John has a great summary of the important points of the latest report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the smart meter market. Titled Grid Regulator: The Internet & Privacy Concerns Will Shape Grid , the article outlines the factors that will guide the actions of major players in the smart grid. If you want ...
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Photo: Honda Composite Materials Allow More Fuel-Efficient Shape Honda is a company best known for... well, not jet planes! But that could be about to change; the company has unveiled a new light jet prototype that, thanks to advanced composite materials and other design tricks, uses 20% less fuel than the competition (which is great in an industry where ...
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Peak oil is a perennial topic on TreeHugger, with huge implications for energy and climate policy even though it is only now ( View original post here: Get Up To Speed on Peak Oil & Our Changing Climate With The Nation's New Video Series
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Five years ago I wrote about my new iPod Nano , the 1 ounce, 8 dram wonder that I called the green product of the year. I wrote that it "demonstrates that brilliant design can let us all live as well or better than we do now in less space, using fewer resources and with a smaller footprint. The ...
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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
