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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Fukushima #3 Photo credit: daveeza via Flickr / CC BY-SA After an accident in any high-profile industry that makes the public nervous, it's pretty common to see business interests, regulators, and public officials rush to assure everybody that the incident was a fluke, and that the power plants running elsewhere are safe, safe, safe. We saw it with the ...
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Photo: fPat / CC Zoos are intended to be places where people can go to learn about unique and fascinating animals from all over the world -- but often they end up showing us that we're actually not so different after all. For over two decades, a female Lowland gorilla named Gorina and her partner Gyeoggi at a zoo ...
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Turkish denim worker Mehmet ?ah Yalç?n, who died last week of occupational silicosis. Photo: Kot Kumlama ??çileri Dayan??ma Komitesi . With the recent death toll among Turkish denim sandblasting workers due to the lung disease silicosis nearing 50, one local firm has decided to abolish the practice and use a laser-based system to create the same "worn-out look" for ...
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Photo: shioshvili Last week concerned dolphins successfully saved the life of a struggling Doberman Pinscher by alerting a vacationing couple that the poor pooch was stuck on the sandbar. The dolphins were enjoying a swim through the Florida canal on their way to the Gulf of Mexico when they noticed the 80 pound Doberman that had disappeared hours before. ...
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Photo credit: ILRI / Creative Commons This guest post was written by Care2 , the largest online community of people making a difference in healthy and green living, human rights and animal welfare. China has grown enough wheat to feed most of its population for decades, but a drought in the country's northern wheat belt has left the region ...
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A chair made of candy wrappers? This funky piece, called, quite bizarrely, the 'Snowjob,' is the work of Emiliano Godoy , in collaboration with ethical accessories label Ecoist. We also have Valentine's Day gifts sweet on the Earth, shocking factory farm stories, sustainable H&M, a photographer's journey to a volcano in Antarctica , and more in our photo roundup ...
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Image: For the Sea Productions Can you identify what lurks in the photo above? Is it a starship limping home through darkest space after a battle to the near death? Another newly identified nightmare fish from the ocean depths? Or is it just an ordinary everyday household object? All is revealed when you watch the video embedded below.... Read ...
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Image credit: Matthew McDermott , used under Creative Commons license. (This photo was taken in Copenhagen, not Cancún.) From a point-by-point debunking of his slideshows , to the House of Lords telling him to stop using their emblem , Lord Monckton is one of ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Read more from the original source: Lord Monckton Crashes ...
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Photo: Anna Garforth . Armed with gardening equipment, white traffic paint, or even a few benches, young (and not so young) activists around the world are taking back the streets to turn our cities into greener, more livable and simply more fun spaces. See the original post: Breaking the Law to Make Streets Greener? 8 Smart Guerrilla Urban Improvements (Slideshow)
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Photo: Sara Novak As Styrofoam begins to cover our planet in the same way that it has long covered our consumer products, innovative thinkers like Eben Bayer are looking for responsible materials that don't require fossil fuels and more easily biodegrade. Could mushrooms be the answer? His team has been testing mushrooms for some time now to successfully invent ...
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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
