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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Image via: GooGooSwap.com Just in time for Mother's Day, is GooGooSwap, (think: Freecycle for the baby world) - perfect for all moms and moms-to-be. And no, they're not swapping babies (sounds like the next reality show, eh?). Tired of the overpriced cost of baby items that have a shelf-life of just a few months? (what could be more un-environmental?) ...
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Image via: Author's collection So I originally wrote about my job as a solar installer almost two years ago. Since that time, I have worked on many jobs in many cities, including international sites, and I have received many emails from readers wondering how they can get a green job in the solar field. I've also read over that ...
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Miss Concrete and Miss Blacktopp open a highway through Wisconsin Andrew Sullivan points to David Schaengold's article in The Public Discourse about why it is, and why it shouldn't be: Sadly, American conservatives have come to be associated with support for transportation decisions that promote dependence on automobiles, while American liberals are more likely to be associated with public ...
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photo: Gavin Newsom via flickr. San Francisco and Portland, Oregon are trying to one-up each other in the race to develop the first citywide, full-scale electric vehicle infrastructure. In a guest post for Gas 2.0 Mayor Gavin Newsom has turned up the collegial war of words, outlining what San Francisco has done since announcing it wanted to be the ...
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Cypress knees, Hartsville SC, Segars-McKinnon Heritage Preserve. Image credit: flickr , Martin LaBar This is as good as industrial ecology gets. On one shared site Hartsville SC gets Sunoco , a maker of high-recycled content cardboard packaging; a new biomass-fired power plant by Peregrine Energy ; and, 30 new green jobs. Why is this green? Not only is the ...
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The poster on the wall of Barbara Taylor's booth at the Green Living Show says "What's new is old again"- a phrase I have used to discuss building technologies of a hundred years ago. Barbara is a potter, and makes clay jars that keep mushrooms fresh for a month, and French style butter keepers that keep butter fresh without ...
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Image credit: Hereschell Hershey on Flickr London EV Retailer Rejects Government Grant Program GoinGreen , the London company selling the funky G-Wiz (pictured above in a fetching leopard skin pattern), has long been a pioneer of electric vehicle retailing in the UK capital - we've even seen the G-Wiz being used in a last ditch attempt to save Lehmann ...
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Portrait of John Muir. Image credit:Sierra Club As American environmental heroes go, John Muir was among the most fascinating - and I''m not just saying that because he founded the organization I work for, the Sierra Club, in 1892, and helped protect places like Yosemite. For instance, before he was a treehugger, he was an inventor who exhibited his ...
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Image: Die Welt Awww, What a Cute Bear In the wake of a woman jumping in with the polar bears at the Berlin zoo , Germany is once again in a whir over bears. Two brown bears escaped from a circus encamped near downtown Kassel. The police were soon alerted about two bears wandering through a busy intersection, and ...
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Conceptual Map, Green Power Express. Image credit: ITC Holdings Greenwire reports, via the New York Times , on a favorable decision by the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, (FERC) for construction of high-power transmission lines from wind farms on the tall grass prairie states to more easterly metro areas. There remains a decade-long slog before the Green Power Express ...
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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
