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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Click on the image above to see the Fisker Karma slideshow. Can't Afford One, But It Costs Nothing to Look While we don't believe that everybody will start driving Teslas and Fiskers anytime soon, these cars are important because they're helping change the image of electric cars, and once that has happened and there's a bigger potential market, it's ...
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Photo via Cleveland Nobody thought this was going to be easy—how to best launch a carbon cap and trade system is one of the most contentious issues on the table right now. And predictably, things are already getting messy. 28 senators have already protested the cap and trade being included in the national budget. Now a chorus of voices ...
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Image: Jenn Pentland With the recent hubub around the shortfalls of organic and local agriculture we think it's good to point out some of the "beyond organic" methods that farmers have adopted. It's no secret that organic agriculture has drifted from the original intent of the farmers that originally rejected the chemical-industrial system. The methods of growing described below ...
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Image credit: Libra Rising , Centaur, Art and Myth: a pictorial The last sighting of this beast was during US Congressional testimony, during 2008:- Mythical Hybrid Beast To Battle Climate Change . Recent news indicates a growing interest in co-locating wind turbines and large scale solar thermal plants with fossil-fueled electricity generators. See below for an excerpt from the ...
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R/V Polarstern – a floating large scale laboratory. Image credit: AWI , Alfred Wegener Institute Surprising how often ideological opposites rely on similar tactics. It's happening now with environmental lobbyists opposing field experiments to validate a non-violent and potentially cost-effective way to put Patient Earth in the Climate Emergency Room: where stabilization and prognosis for a long term cure ...
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Photo via Laura Padgett We visit discount stores like Wal-mart, Costco, and Sam's Club to pick-up a lot of different things, such as hair gel, cell phones, fish food, Tickle-me Elmo, or even a cheap pair of beach sandals (okay, maybe you better forget about the sandals ). The point is, these discount stores sell a little bit of ...
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Old leaded gasoline pump . Image credit: flickr,ISI Photo , excerpted from the image: "Mmmm leaded gas is good for the environment". The Billings Gazette covered a recent report from Centers for Disease Control (CDC) researchers, documenting that " just 1.4 percent of young children had elevated lead levels in their blood in 2004, the latest data available. That ...
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Image credit:RMI President Obama has set the goal of adding one million plug-in vehicles to the country's fleet by 2015. And while the recently passed stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, contained some very generous incentives for plug-in vehicles , much work remains to be done. One million is one half of a percent of the fleet—a ...
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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
