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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Photo of urine separating toilet instructions via tjuvtittat.se . "Night soil" has for centuries been the fertilizer of choice for healthy gardens, and at TreeHugger we''ve tried all the bad puns there are when writing about the art of utilizing urine for garden fertilizing . Why are we so obsessed? Well, the Western penchant for flushing away the poo ...
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Renewable energy in Ontario could get a massive financial boost with newly proposed feed-in tariff rates. Though Ontario has had feed-in tariffs for about two years, the project size was capped at 10 MW, under the newly proposed rates that cap is lifted or raised for most technologies (solar power not being one of them). Feed-In Tariff Costs Shared ...
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eBay has noticed three things: Our current consumption patterns aren't sustainable, the economy is requiring us to rethink how we shop, and we want help shopping with green as a priority. As a response, the company is launching a Green Team to encourage buyers and sellers to make more sustainable purchasing decisions . ... Read more from the original ...
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photo: Tim Schapker via flickr A quick search on TreeHugger shows that ' solar power ' most often occurs in connection with producing electricity and only secondarily in connection with solar water heaters . That's unfortunate, according to scientists at the Dr Panjabrao Deshmukh Agricultural University in India, because using the sun's power to heat water is a far ...
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29 million acres of land in the Southwest under Department of Interior management have been identified as having good solar power potential. Photo: Rick Cooper via flickr While I'm not so sure his head's in the right place when it comes to oil shale , Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar certainly has been supportive of renewable energy. The latest ...
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Lithium-Iron-Phosphate particule. Is this the "Holy Grail" Battery We've Been Waiting For? Nature published a very interesting paper by MIT researchers Byoungwoo Kang & Gerbrand Ceder this week: Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging . In it they claim that they have discovered a way to make a lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) battery charge and discharge about as ...
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Solar start-up Veranda Solar wants to change the world of solar power the way Apple changed computers. Veranda got a big head-start on financing the start-up when the company was awarded 100,000€ as runner-up in the PICNIC Green Challenge, funded by the Dutch postcode lottery. The solar panels Veranda uses are nothing special. The prototypes were developed in cooperation ...
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Photo via robstephaustralia And they thought wind turbines were a pain . More than 80% of of the deaths in several bat populations in the northeastern United States and Canada have been caused by a fungus - indirectly. Scientists haven't figured out a way to stop it from spreading, but they have figured out a likely reason bats are ...
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Image via: Author's Photos While perusing the aisle of my local grocery store the other day, looking for some sort of "sauce" to go on quesadillas and burritos, I ran across this Chipotle-Ranch Dressing. Perfect I thought. Then I got it home and realized it was a "vegenaise" product. Good Grief! I'm a vegetarian, but I've had trouble getting ...
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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
