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Weekday Vegetarian: Healthy and Delicious Lentil Patties

Photo: Kelly Rossiter My husband and I were out of town the past weekend. He spent his days at a conference working, and I was lying around a beautiful house on Lake Erie with old friends, essentially spending the weekend overindulging. We were in a big farming community, but he got an unappetizing dinner served cafeteria style, despite the claims that dinner would be “local Ontario cuisine”, while we dined on a fantastic local flank steak,

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Twilight Saga Star Robert Pattinson, I’m Going To Die At 30

Twilight Saga Star Robert Pattinson, I’m Going To Die At 30 as he said because he worried God may say he has asked for too much. In a new Nightline interview airing on Monday, The 24-year-old British actor told that so many good things have happened to him at such an early age. According to Robert Pattinson, “I guess I just thought if too many good things happen, then you’re going to die at 30,” “I didn’t want that to happen. Yeah, so probably, I’m going to die at 30. Actually, it’s God saying, ‘Hey, you shouldn’t have asked for too much.” Read More Twilight Saga Star Robert Pattinson, I’m Going To Die At 30 is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading

Will Afghanistan Become the "Saudi Arabia of Lithium"?

Image: Flickr , CC The Bolivia of South-Central Asia? Who would have thought that “Afghanistan” would someday be associated with “electric cars”? Well, maybe some people did. As John points out in his post today , it’s been known for a while that Afghanistan contains vast mineral resources, including immense quantities of the main component of most portable electronics and electric car batteries: lithium. But what does this mean for electric cars, the… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Microsoft App Can Cut PC Power Consumption By 80%

Photo by canned muffins Just how important is turning off computers at the end of the day in an office building? Very, if a company wants to save big bucks on electricity bills. According to UC San Diego researchers, 50-80% of a modern building’s electricity use goes to IT equipment, particularly desktop computers. A report last year showed that not shutting down PCs equated to $2.8 billion in wasted electricity . Still, many offices don’t encourage their employe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Trade Allegations of Infidelity; Private Investigator Hired

If you thought Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt’s separation, be it real or contrived, couldn’t get any weirder, you clearly misunderestimated Speidi. They’re now each accusing each other of having affairs, and that’s not all – Heidi has gone so far as to hire a private investigator to spy on Spencer . As we reported last week, Heidi is allegedly staying at the home of the hilariously named Cougar Zank, a Marine turned bodyguard and pal of Pratt. Earlier this year, Zank moved into the home Spencer and Heidi were renting at his request, with Pratt claiming that the two were writing a script. But when Heidi Montag split with Spencer in May, Zank invited her to stay with him at a home he rents in Malibu, which totally set Spencer off. AT WAR : Is Speidi’s split actually legit? [Photo: PacificCoastNewsOnline.com] He considered Cougar Zank his friend, and is sure the only reason Cougar would have sided with Heidi in the split is that “he wants her for himself.” A source also says that Heidi just returned from New York City and that none other than Cougar Zank accompanied the plastic princess on the trip. “They are definitely friends. I don’t know if there is anything more to it than that, but Spencer believes there is,” the source said. “He’s certain.” It’s reciprocal, too. One of Heidi’s major concerns, close sources reveal, is that Spencer has been seeing another woman since their split in May. “She is anxious to find out if her suspicions and the rumors are true. It is really important to Heidi to find out if Spencer has been cheating on her.” Well, sure. As for Heidi’s aforementioned NYC trip, it was to find a producer for her new reality series with Jen Bunney, also her current roommate. She met with executives at ITV, the company behind I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here , which featured Speidi last summer, according to reports. The source also says Heidi, who filed a petition for legal separation from Spencer last weekend, plans on following that up with a divorce petition. “It will be filed,” the source says, noting that “She felt she had to get the separation petition done in a rush last week to stop the money flow.” Under California law, community property ends on the date of separation, meaning anything she earns from that day forward is Heidi’s alone. “Heidi is very concerned about the finances,” the source says. “Everybody knows she’s made more money than Spencer. She needs to protect it.” Could this split actually be real? Whose side are you on?

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Japan Accused of Bribing Nations to be Pro-Whaling

On the heels of an International Whaling Commission meeting slated for later this month to discuss the future prospects of commercial hunts , conscience and moral imperatives may not be the only thing influencing the countries present there. An undercover investigation, conducted by reporters from The Sunday Times , found whaling-friendly Japan has sought to bribe small nations into taking … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Big Business Can Save The Future, If Their Political Umpires Don’t Miss The Call – Again

Missed base call. Image credit: New York Magazine The lifestyle backdrop Do we agree that incremental lifestyle changes can not surmount the political obstacles posed by well-funded Think Tanks and lobbyists, by an irrational obsession with libertarian ideas, and by a broadcast media focused on creating false controversies to boost ratings? If so, read on. Big Problems require Big Solutions and Fortune Listed companies can change political culture in a matter of a few months so that solutions are forthcoming. A… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Unplugged: Organic and Affordable Solar Power

The Millennium Technology Prize trophy, named “Peak,” features a silicon tip. Back in 1991, Professor Michael Graetzel from the Lausanne Polytechnic invented what’s now called the Graetzel Cell , a non-photovoltaic solar cell made of a layer of titanium dioxide, glass and a dye from fruit that absorbs sunlight like the chlorophyll in green leaves. The Swiss professor has since continued deve… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Beware Young Grasshopper…Of the USDA

The USDA announced plans yesterday to allocate $11 million of its budget to efforts this summer to control the spread of native grasshoppers throughout eleven western states. That money will go towards protecting four million acres of farmland, based on high estimates of grasshopper breeding going into this summer. These expectations are based on 2009 surveys of grasshopper populations. The states most at risk are Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming; Idaho, Nevada and Utah are also at risk.

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Dog Loves Cat Loves Rat in World-Changing Video (Maybe)

Credit: Bestpeacesign.com . Dogs don’t like cats and cats don’t like rats, right? Well, there’s always an exception to the rule. And sometimes it’s adorable (and creepy at the same time). Drew Harmon , “a comedian, writer and whatever else” from San Francisco has found something amazing—a dog with a cat on its back with a rat on the back of the cat. Whaddaya think of that?… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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