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This chocolate wasn’t what I expected.  I bought it expecting a strong lemon flavor, but there was only the slightest hint of lemon.  I was not, however, disappointed.  (more…)

When you were a kid, did you have to change into play clothes when you got home from school?  Well, keep it up.  It’s a good practice.  (more…)

Loggerhead sea turtle population dropping in the U.S.

Yale agrees to return Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru.

Air pollution may cause heart disease.

My post on parabens was included in the 96th Carnival of the Green over at Karavans.

Australia’s drought may cut this year’s wine production in half.

According to New Scientist,

A kilogram of beef is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution than driving for 3 hours while leaving all the lights on back home.

You might not be ready to switch to a vegetarian diet, but spending one day a week eating animal-free foods is easy.

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Enjoying the harvest in Central Park.

Underwater structures off the coast of Taiwan are possibly Atlantis type city ruins.

“Nonexistant” flying fox discovered.

Mars images show signs of liquid water.

Digging holes to store energy?

It’s hard to find wheat-free food that’s actually good.  My wheat-eating husband won’t eat a lot of the wheat-free foods I buy, because there’s no reason for him to suffer through bread that tastes like cardboard, or cookies that taste like, well . . . cardboard.  But Bumble Bars are a wheat-free snack we both love.  (more…)

We are constantly bombarded by images and ads for new products and styles.  It’s easy to get caught up in it.  We become convinced that we need the latest greatest whatever, and one impulse buy later, we have a fabulous product that will be used a few times and then retired to the closet or basement.  But it’s more than just harmful to your wallet.  Excessive consumption of goods is bad for the environment too.

Here are a few tips to keep the impulse buys to a minimum.

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What is the carbon footprint of a potato?

Bats in the dorm lead to rabies worries.

Alicia Silverstone takes it all off for PETA.

Study shows fish respond rapidly to mercury level changes.

Roasted songbird no longer on the menu in France.

TreeHugger is reporting that dryer balls are not the eco-friendly alternative to dryer sheets we all thought they were.

Dryer balls have been regarded as a great, non-chemical alternative to dryer sheet fabric softeners.  Unfortunately, the material used in making the knobby blue dryer balls is as un-eco-friendly as it gets.

According to TreeHugger:

What the manufacturers fail to mention, however, is that the the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) material the supposedly “nontoxic” dryer balls are made of is one of the most poisonous plastics ever created, posing great environmental and health hazards in its manufacture, product life, and disposal.

In the next few weeks I’ll be doing some research to come up with some safe, anti-static, clothes softening alternatives.  I promise I’ll share what I come up with.

My fourth grade reading glasses looked frighteningly similar to the ones Angela wore on Who’s the Boss. I had a pair in high school that had faux denim frames. Then there were the Lisa Loeb glasses in college . . .

And those are only a few highlights in the list of hideous glasses I have owned. If you, like me, have four eyes, you probably have some equally out of fashion glasses in your past, or maybe even in your closet or junk drawer. (more…)