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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Only Pay for a Car When You Need One If you live in a rural area, owning a car might not be much of a choice. But in cities, there are so many ways to get around that owning a car often doesn't make much sense, especially now that car-sharing companies are well established and have technologies that make ...
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Scrivener Square, Toronto: Adaptive reuse of train station as flagship liquor store Toronto real estate developer Paul Oberman, who is responsible for some of the best historic renovations and adaptive reuse of buildings in the country, was killed last night in an airplane crash in Maine, while flying from Halifax to Quebec City. According to a spokesman for the ...
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photo: OxOx / Creative Commons One more of the amazing things about elephants : Researchers at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center have determined that Asian elephants cooperate with one another at least as well as chimpanzees.... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post: Elephants Cooperate With One Another As Well As Apes Do
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Warning! Motion Sickness Alert There are times when you come to TreeHugger for analysis of the latest transit ridership numbers from the Department of Transportation, and there are times when you just want to see really crazy bike rides. Now's the time for the crazy rides! Check out the video above and the videos below. Most are from the ...
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Tehran is working to clear its air. Photo: kamshots / Creative Commons . Smog-choked, traffic-clogged Tehran may seem an unlikely candidate for an environmental honor, but the Iranian capital's aggressive recent moves to improve its public-transit infrastructure were acknowledged this month by the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy , which nominated the city for its 2011 Su... Read ...
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Photo: VW 1-Liter Car V.3 Volkswagen's 1-Liter Car started out as a slippery 660 pounds diesel , evolved into a more futuristic-looking 840 pounds diesel-hybrid , and is now - in its third generation - a plug-in diesel hybrid that looks a lot like the second generation but now has a plug. VW rates it at 0.9 L/100 km ...
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Photos credit Sothebys Architect Adam Kushner was fortunate enough to be able to design his own New York apartment, and did so with some style. It is a bit eccentric, what with a jacuzzi in the middle of the ground floor living space and a glass floor in the bathroom above, but it does make clever reuse of the ...
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Image via TED video Van Jones gave a talk at a recent TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch event, and what he brought up about the correlation between plastic use and poverty was fascinating. Zeroing in on Cancer Alley , disposability of things, the placement of environmental issues and humanitarian issues as either/or efforts, the sense of righteousness tainting green actions, and sustainability as ...
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TIME asks, "Should we stop freaking out about China and Clean Tech?" It brings up interesting points from the debate on partnering with and/or competing against China on clean tech innovation. Definitely worth a read. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger See original here: Should We Stop Freaking Out About China and Clean Tech?
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What will limit growth in travel: fuel prices or gridlock? Image credit Aidan.Morgan A new study of travel habits in eight industrialized countries (including United States, Canada, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan and Australia) comes to some interesting conclusions: people are travelling less, and it is not just due to higher fuel prices. Historically, as GDP per ...
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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
