Virginia. Of all places. Smoking is officially so 1990s.
via the Washington Post
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Environmental Working GroupVirginia. Of all places. Smoking is officially so 1990s.
via the Washington Post
Annie Leonard is back!! With The Story of Stuff: Cap & Trade. Check it out.
Is cap & trade perfect? No. Is it better than nothing? Yes. Would a tax (gasp!) be better? 100%. Here’s some more info.
Getchaself educated. Good stuff.
Don’t take this as a whole-hearted support of Method products, though I do think they’re better than most. But the video is cute, and gets the point across: you deserve to know what chemicals are in your cleaners. Creepy bubbles…
Instead of using petrochemicals to make plastic, a team out of South Korea are using bioengineering to create plastics that are also biodegradable.
“By developing a strategy which combines metabolic engineering and enzyme engineering, we’ve developed an efficient bio-based one-step production process for PLA (Polylactic Acid) and its copolymers,” said Lee.
A little e.coli here, some fermentation there, and voila! A more sustainable process to make materials we need from renewable sources. Good stuff.
From MoJo:
Do you have difficulty being faithful? Fear not: CheatNeutral allows you to offset your infidelity by paying another couple not to cheat. With just a few easy payments, you can assuage you guilt and continue your meandering ways.
Sound crazy?
That’s because the “service” is an elaborate satire of carbon offsets, the system that allows polluters to justify their sins by paying to reduce emissions elsewhere.
Check out the whole intro here, and the amusing CheatNeutral site here.
I’ve mentioned PSE&G’s energy audits before I think, but now they’ve expanded the program to other Urban Enterprise Zones in NJ (hooray for being declared poor, only 3.5% tax!), and it’s even open to renters now! They do an energy audit of your home, install a programmable thermostat and some basic weatherization for free! Then you can choose to do other income-based energy efficiency upgrades if you want.
For more information, call (800) 854-4444 or visit www.pseg.com/wholehouse.
From nj.com
- From an article on nj.com on the comeback of heritage turkeys. Not sure if this farmer really meant to wish death upon obese men though…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Great. Thanks for telling us now, after it’s too late to order local turkeys from local farmers for Thanksgiving. GoodGuide has provided us with 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Thanksgiving Dinner. My favorites:
#3) “Fresh” turkeys may be over 2 months old. The USDA definition of “fresh” refers to turkeys whose internal temperature has never been below 26°F. “Hard-chilled” means the turkey was kept between 0°F and 26°F. “Frozen” means the turkey was kept at or below 0°F. The surprising thing about this standard is that it only mentions temperature, not time.
#10) Two tablespoons of gravy sauce give you over 1/3 of the sodium you need for the day. Many gravy products contain artificial colors of concern, and some contain transfats.
Good thing I’m making the cranberry sauce this year, which consists of far less sugar than the canned stuff, which gives you 1/3 of your daily intake, and probably some unwanted high fructose goobledygob.
And last but not least, fake plastic wishbones, thanks PETA.