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: Peter Gibbons via flickr More on the important role that black carbon soot plays in increasing global warming and what can be done about it: A new study published in Nature Geoscience found that the amount of solar radiation absorbed increased as the ratio of black carbon to sulphate rose. What's more, in terms of warming potential, black ...
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Think of it as a garden shed for the high-rise: Plant Room is a clip-on room that provides a bit of green space, hot water, rainwater collection and even a worm farm for the apartment dweller. We covered it briefly in March , but the designers have added a lot more information to their site. The Wellington, New Zealand ...
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"The gas belongs to the public" - one of Civil Action Forum's publicity cartoons. When massive natural gas reserves were discovered off the coast of Israel in early 2009, it seemed as if the country's energy problems were solved. Many expected that a resource bonanza was on th... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Battle ...
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Making a slow boat look fast... photo: Neal McQ via flickr. Having assessed the overall picture of how our patterns of global shipping and global aviation use tons of fuel , leave a high environmental footprint, and how technological changes can help but perhaps not fully solve the problem, let's move on to how we can change ourselves and ...
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Photo via sporkist We know Americans are guilty of wasting an inexcusable amount of food every year. In fact, estimates say we waste as much as 40% of our food supply ; New York City residents alone waste 270,000 pounds of food every single day . But how much Read more: 2% US Energy Consumption is Lost Through Food Waste
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Photo: Google Blog , logo added by Michael G.R. Part of Google's Goal of Being Carbon-Neutral Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google that was created to give the company the ability to buy power on the wholesale market, has just inked a 20-year deal to buy 114 megawatts of power from the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II wind ...
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Mountaintop removal mine in Kentucky, photo: iLoveMountains.org via flickr. One more item that probably would've made more headlines had there not been a gigantic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (I know I missed it until now): As Solve Climate reports, the EPA has given approval to the first Originally posted here: EPA Approves First Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine ...
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Photo: Sydney Theatre Company Better known for lighting up the stage and screen, Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, (with husband and Co-Artistic Director of the Sydney Theatre Company) has teamed up with Australian federal government, the University of New South Wales and the NSW Government Architect's Office to shine the light in a project known as, Greening the Wharf. The ...
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Image credit: Food Forward Fresh fruit isn't the first thing that comes to mind when I think about LA. Nevertheless, we've already heard about Fallen Fruit —an art project turned activist movement which aims to liberate unused 'public' fruit. (The movement eventually lead to a take over of LA Art Museum with some edible environmental art .) Another crew ...
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Photo: Sydney City, via Energy Efficiency Council "The International Energy Agency estimates that energy efficiency will deliver 65 per cent of worldwide carbon cuts in the energy sector by 2020, and 54 per cent by 2030. This means that in 2020 energy efficiency could have almost twice the impact of renewable energy, nuclear power and clean coal combined." Such ...
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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
