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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Preloved spring 2010 collection. Credit: Preloved Toronto Fashion Week --or as the media sponsors have it: LG Fashion Week Beauty by L'Oreal Paris--starts this Sunday, March 28, in Canada and reclaimed fashion design house , Preloved will take to the runway with their fall 2010 collection. Gearing up for the show we're sharing their designs for spring 2010: dresses ...
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Julian Red and Righteous Fashion (L to R). Credit: Mikael Schultz, Swedish Institute; Swedish Institute Eco Chic - Towards Sustainable Swedish Fashion, an exhibit featuring Swedish fashion designers who take an environmentally-friendly and ethical approach to their work, opens at Scandinavia House in May. The touring exhibition includes work by Johanna Hofring, whose Spring 2010 designs we recently saw ...
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Photos: AnaLivni.com As we mentioned on a previous article , Uruguayan brand Ana Livni works with the concept of slow fashion: collections that don't follow seasons, timeless clothes, local materials and slow manufacture. For the 2010 southern cold season, they've revealed a set of new creations under the name 'Entrevero' at the latest edition of Buenos Aires Fashion week ...
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Images via NOAH There's a reason to practice your iPhone photography skills like Trevor Reichman has done - more and more citizen scientists apps are popping up that put you in the driver's seat for documenting the flora and fauna around your for science's sake. NOAH, or the Networked Organisms and Habitats app is the latest one to crop ...
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House of Organic at New York Fashion Week; Mika Machida, Johana Hofring, Eko-Lab (left to right). Credit: Jason Wyche House of Organic (Ekovaruhuset) showed fall 2010 collections by Johanna Hofring , Renata Mann , Eko-Lab , Meiling Chen , Kaori Yamazaki, Mika Machida, and Tor Soderin, at the Read the original: New York Fashion Week: Ekovaruhuset/House of Organic Fall 2010 ...
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All images by Paul Persky for Ada Zanditon AW10 Of all the fantastic ethical fashion labels that we've seen over the last few seasons at the Read the original: London Fashion Week: Ada Zanditon Goes Bats with Echolocation AW10 Collection (Photos)
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Image credit: Fashioning Tech It's well known by now that much of the action at the failed climate talks in Copenhagen happened outside the convention center. From clashes with police to activists being banned from talks , some of the action was confrontational. But there was also a gigantic sha... Read the full story on TreeHugger See original here: The ...
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The Environmental Justice Foundation ( EJF ) has just launched a set of sustainable t-shirts designed by the likes of haute couturiers John Rocha , Zandra Rhodes, Luella Bartley , and Christian Lacroix -- to name a few -- for summer 2010. The t-shirts are made with fairly traded Continental cotton from Turkey are are designed around the theme, ...
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Winning designer Irina Shabayeva's newspaper coat from Project Runway. Photo courtesy PRNewsFoto/Tupperware Brands Project Runway winner Irina Shabayeva debuts her Fall 2010 collection at New York's Fashion Week next Saturday with some reuse and recycling techniques. The top designer from the show's sixth season, reveals... Read the full story on TreeHugger Here is the original: Tupperware Duds at New York ...
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Photo via Welt Last year, the EPA proposed new stricter regulations on sulfur dioxide and mercury emissions through higher air quality standards, but their implementation has been held up due to legal challenges, Reuters reports . So in order to get the new standards upheld, a bipartisan group of senators ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the ...
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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
