So, this here contraption can generate enough wind power to illuminate led lights or a small electrical device. Imagine what you could do if you strap this to your over-active children? It could solve the childhood obesity problem AND lower our dependence on conventional electricity in one fell swoop, don’tcha think? Just load your kids [...]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Necessity is the mother of invention, I suppose. So scientists are trying all sorts of ways to come up with fossil fuel alternatives and The Daily Green has compiled a list of eight of the weirdest ideas out there. I have summarized them below: Chocolate – Apparently, anything with fat in it can be turned [...]
I don’t post for almost a month and then I return with the feelgood post of the century – detailing which chemicals are on which foods and the potential damage they can cause. Uplifting! I came across this site and I just had to share. Whatsonmyfood.org is a project of the Pesticide Action Network. It [...]
We live in Southern California, so sunscreen is a product we use almost daily (well, we should be anyway). I had questioned what’s in sunscreen but didn’t really think too hard about it until I saw Safe Mama’s Safer Sunscreen Cheat Sheet, which I encourage you to download. I’m not at all surprised that the everyday [...]
I would say that, on average, 80%-90% of my daily mail from the USPS is complete junk – catalogs, offer postcards, etc – all sorts of paper crap I did not ask to receive. I knew that sites existed where you could go sign up to no longer receive junkmail, but I’ve never signed up. [...]
Another “WTF?! You can’t possibly be serious” moment. If you haven’t heard yet, about two weeks ago the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics came out with a report that found dozens of top-selling children’s bath products contain the cancer-causing chemicals formaldehyde and 1,4-dioxane. Yep, even J&J Baby Wash that almost all of us have used on our [...]
I am continually concerned by the chemicals lurking on and in our food. I don’t necessarily trust the FDA and I think that over time all of the gunk they spray onto our fruits and vegetables, which we ingest, is going to have some sort of adverse effect on our health and that of our [...]
Here’s something that will give us more to feel shitty about…Calculating your own carbon footprint. Just click here, enter the info requested into this online tool and, voila!, out poops a score to let you know how stinky your footprint is. How do you think you’ll do? Will your score make Al Gore proud?
Lately, more than ever, I’m trying really hard to support my local economy. It’s those local shops and vendors that make America unique, and this economic downturn is tougher on them than on the big guys. I look around Laguna Beach and Dana Point, and see all of these unique establishments closing their doors. These [...]
In case you can keep a bottle of vodka around the house without drinking it, you may be interested to know it has numerous uses that don’t end in you dancing on your neighbors’ dining room table to Pat Benatar and not remembering the entire thing (this is only what I’ve heard can happen, mind [...]
