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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Riot police fought anti-nuclear activists protesting the transport of nuclear waste from Normandy to Germany. Excerpt from: French Police Tear Gas and Arrest Anti-Nuclear Protesters
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"Pollution from lead, mercury and cancer-causing cadmium is often blamed for poisoning entire villages and crop-growing land in China as factory bosses flout environmental laws and farmers use toxic fertilizers." See the original post: One Tenth China's Land Said To Be Highly Polluted With Heavy Metals - Coal May Be To Blame
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Google has been hatching a new project that connects household accessories such as lightbulbs to the Android platform, which makes it easier for homeowners to keep tabs on their energy consumption and control their home from afar. Google has picked Arduino for its Open Accessories "kit", which will help developers start building new hardware accessories that can work on ...
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Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr /CC BY-SA Bill Gates is keen on the notion that we can invent our way out of climate change . This isn't such a terrible thing, and there are many others who more or less push for this approach -- that is, focusing on dumping huge sums of cash into research and ...
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An anti-nuclear performance in Istanbul's Tünel Square. Photo: Greenpeace Akdeniz . The ongoing effort to contain radiation leaks from Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant, badly damaged in the devastating earthquake and tsunami, has countries from Germany to Read the original here: Quake-Prone Turkey Vows To Move Nuke Plans Ahead
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AT&T announced today that because of 4,200 energy efficiency projects installed at company facilities during 2010, it saved $44 million in annual energy costs. The projects included things like installing desktop power management software on 169,000 computers, a measure that generated $614,000 in savings alone, and installing LED light bulbs at over 1,100 cell sites. ... Read the full ...
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Image: Wyoming Energy News Shady dealings have been going on between oil & gas regulators and, well, the oil & gas industry, in the Bureau of Land Management's Casper, Wyoming office—and the Department of the Interior likely knew and just let them slip by. The Project on Government Oversight has the scoop on reports by the DOI Inspector General ...
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photo via flickr There has been considerable consternation about the Park Service's decision to move the Solar Decathlon off the National Mall to parts unknown. The decision to move would of had an negative effect on the students who have been working on their designs based on the specifics of the Mall, and it would have been a lost ...
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Image: Business Wire Coke's patented PlantBottle , made from up to 30 percent plant-based material, will now be used for Heinz ketchup. Heinz says it will convert all of its 20-ounce bottles in the U.S. this summer. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Excerpt from: Heinz to Adopt Coca Cola's "PlantBottle"
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Image credit TD Bank I thought I was very careful and considered in my discussion of TD's Net Zero Energy bank branch. I described what good environmental corporate citizens they were and how happy I was as a customer. But I did point out that it was plopped in the middle of a sea of asphalt and that the ...
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"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
Google leads the pack in Greenpeace's annual ranking of IT companies based on their efforts to use clean energy and reduce their environmental impact. Here is the original: Google Tops Greenpeace's Clean IT List
