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4 December 09
Four hundred years after John Rolfe planted the nation’s first commercial tobacco in Virginia, and decades after state leaders paid homage to the crop by carving its leaves into the ceiling of the old state Senate chamber, smoking officially becomes illegal Tuesday in the state’s 17,500 bars and restaurants.

Virginia.  Of all places.  Smoking is officially so 1990s.

via the Washington Post

Tags: toxics
3 December 09

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.

2 December 09
Climate change pits the industrialized world, which has the financial means to adapt to a hotter planet, against poor ones demanding recompense for a problem they did little to create. It pits prosperous countries, which became so through copious use of fossil fuels, against developing economies reluctant to put a price on carbon, now that it’s their turn to grow…
Green Inc. column by Tom Zeller.  Less than a week till Copenhagen.
1 December 09

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…

Tags: toxics body
30 November 09
28 November 09

CheatNeutral: Helping you because you can't help yourself

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.

27 November 09
Tags: energy
26 November 09
Have you ever seen a really fat man trying to walk up the stairs, and you see his really purple face and he’s in danger of having a heart attack?” said Roger Mastrude, founder of the Heritage Turkey Foundation in California. “They (commercial turkey breeds) remind me of that. They’re just really not meant to be alive.

- 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!

Tags: food body
25 November 09

Random, yes.  But somewhat “twig” related, no?

Random, yes.  But somewhat “twig” related, no?

24 November 09

If This Doesn't Ruin Thanksgiving, I Don't Know What Will

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.

Tags: food recycling
Themed by Becky & Hunson. Originally by Josh