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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... Read the full story on TreeHugger Original post: Holiday Gift Guide 2010: The Foodie and the Health and Wellness Guru (Video)
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Image credit: Anstiftung und Ertomis Emma has already shown us some beautiful edible container gardens , courtesy of our readers; we've seen a gorgeous urban orchard complete with a repurposed dumpster/ping pong table , not to mention an under-used train statio... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read the original: Extreme Container Gardening - Prinzessinengartens in Berlin (Video)
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Photo: notonthehighstreet Gone are the days when Brussels sprouts evoked a family groan at dinner. Now sprouts are being hailed as a hang-over cure (more on that later), a cancer fighter and a trendy food. One farmer is so committed that he farms 2,000 acres of them, with half a million being harvested. Two to three hundred tons of ...
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Photo: notonthehighstreet Gone are the days when Brussels sprouts evoked a family groan at dinner. Now sprouts are being hailed as a hang-over cure (more on that later), a cancer fighter and a trendy food. One farmer is so committed that he farms 2,000 acres of them, with half a million being harvested. Two to three hundred tons of ...
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Photo: Sempra Energy 48 Megawatts of Goodness It's 10x smaller than the planned 500 MW solar PV farm that Sempra is trying to build near Phoenix, Arizona, but the 48 MW Copper Mountain Solar facility, located in Boulder City, Nevada, has the benefit of not being just a plan anymore. Construction began in January 2010 at the 380-acre desert ...
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See the original post: The Creative, Colorful Climate Protests of Cancun 2010 (Photos)
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Images courtesy (fer) studio One post on TreeHugger says The Greenest Brick is the One That's Already in the Wall ; another that LEED stands for "Lunatic Environmentalists Enthusiastically Demolishing" . But now we are beginning to see the best of both worlds, with very green renovations and restorations, like the eponymously named Green Building in Louisville, Kentucky; it ...
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I happened upon this great music video for kids, "Science is Real" making its way up the Most Popular list on Reddit. It's by the alt rock band They Might be Giants, famous for their 'Istanbul (Not Constantinople)' tune and the theme song to Malcolm in the Middle. Anywho, it piqued my curiosity. Why was such a simple, cutesy conce... ...
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Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband is involved with an non-profit organization in Ontario that preserves historic buildings. Every year they have a silent auction as a fundraiser and one of the things people bid on is dinner for four at our house. Everything I serve is from Ontario, down to the wines, so I usually suggest to purchasers that ...
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Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce TreeHugger was one of the earliest sites to raise concern about endocrine disrupting chemicals like Bisphenol A; we were loud in our support for the removal of polycarbonate bottles (an easy target as there are lots of alternatives) and for the elimination of BPA epoxies from tin cans . Treehugger was 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
