Water
Water-Saving Tips
The 40-Hour Drought

Go Organic
Scientists Estimate That Pesticides are Reducing Crop Yields by ONE-THIRD
Organic fruit and vegetables really are better for your heart

Casaubon's Book
52 Weeks Down: Week 12 - Get Your Kids Involved

The Doom and Gloom Report brings you:
The Stranger: Be Afraid. (topic: bird flu; article not suitable reading for the hypochondriacs on my flist, nor for those with health anxieties. you know who you are.)

In happier news:
Inhabitat: Reverse Graffiti srsly cool stuff.

CNN: Man flies 193 miles in lawn chair

Salon: Air head: I could buy an air ( Read more... )

Recycled Paper Myths Debunked

The Complete Guide to Living with CFLs

Five Things that Are Worse than Global Warming

The U.S. One Dollar Coin
and why it's not all that Green

Coca-Cola agrees to take carcinogenic benzene out of soda

Ice melt unmasks odd species

Oh, and for those interested, Mercury goes direct today. Yay!

Consumerism

LS: 10 Ways to Green Your Spending

Simple: Buy Green Shoes (when your current ones wear out, of course)

Water

TH: Global Warming to Dry Up Ganges River

TH: How to Green Your Water

Grist: ...Smart Money is on Filter Systems

TH:Case Study for Flushless Urinals

TH: Argentinean Water Recycling Toilets

TH:How to: Eco-Laundry

TH ( Read more... )

courtesy northbard:
Message in a Bottle
most potent quote: it's reasonable to ask as you reach for the next bottle, not just "Does the value to me equal the 99 cents I'm about to spend?" but "Does the value equal the impact I'm about to leave behind?"

courtesy Casaubon's Book: 52 Weeks Down Series
Week 10 - Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, Do Without
It ( Read more... )

Did you know that if you send out an invitation on Evite, it lets you know who has viewed the invitation? I was unaware of this. I thought I'd share ( Read more... )

It's been a billion.5 degrees lately and the one food I crave? SALSA. The hottest salsa I can find ( Read more... )

Since sky burial is not likely to be legal or widely available by the time I die, I want promession instead. It's a new method that is not yet available, but it is much more likely to be so by the time I kick it. It was a procedure "developed in response to new European Union pollution laws." It's also known as an ecological burialThe Zoë Keating ( Read more... )