Photo credit: Ericskiff Three years ago we were appalled when Organic Oreos were launched , convinced that the organic label was being misused to make a fat and calorie rich product somehow healthier. Now a new study, reported in Livescience , confirms that not only do people think it is healthie… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Study Shows How Organic Labels Trick People Into Eating More
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Image credit: Image Shack Ever feel like you live in a parallel universe? From the selective flush , to the slightly less controversial shared flush , I thought I had covered all the options for alternative toilet flushing methodologies. Heck, I’ve even looked at using no flush at all . But, thanks to tipster Nathan, I’m no… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Courtesy Flush Stinks: Bathroom Etiquette Gone Wrong
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Photo by foodiesathome.com via flickr. TreeHugger asked Andrew Sharpless, CEO for the Oceana ocean protection organization, why we really personally care about the health and fate of the world’s big water bodies. Many of us, after all, live far from the coast. TH asked Sharpless to please tell us how and why the health of the oceans affects each of us directly. Here are his replies: … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Six Selfish Reasons You Don’t Want Dead Oceans
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a portion of the winning entry A lot of people had doubts about the Betacup Challenge , a competition “in search of a solution to the rampant wastage of unrecyclable paper coffee cups”. There are perfectly good solutions out there right now, like reusable or travel mugs. On the Betacup site’s ” why we don’t switch to reusable page, they write that “one possible answer to this question is that it is simply not convenient.” Gee, what a surprise. But a lot of smart people are behind this, i… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Winner Of BetaCup Challenge isn’t A Cup, It’s The KarmaCup
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Even these sand crabs are nervous at the thought of a Henslow swimming crab invasion. Image credit: Balaji.B /Flickr Named after John Stevens Henslow , the Cambridge professor who gave up his place on the Beagle to Charles Darwin, Polybius henslowii —or the Henslow swimming crab—finds it most comfortable in the warm waters off the coast of Portugal. Warming ocean currents, however, have allowed the active, swimming, predator to migrate north—and the impact of its presence is beginning to ripple t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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North Sea Suffers Crab Invasion
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Image credit: Good Planting, tending, and harvesting a garden teaches young students the value of the soil, the delicacy of plants, and the joy a few hours of dirty work can bring. It can also help supplement those woefully unbalanced school lunches everyone has been talking about . In this vein, Good offers a quick guide to starting an edible school garden…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Watch the first episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys online! This guest post was written by bestselling author James Frey. Woohoo, woohoo, let’s all go to the farm, woohoo! Welcome to my first weekly recap of The Fabulous Beekman Boys , where I summarize Josh and Brent’s farmlife adventures and decide whether what I’ve seen makes it more or less likely that I leave New York for a simpler li… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Thoughts on the First Episode of The Fabulous Beekman Boys
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photo: Dominic Alves via flickr Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have “changed in lockstep” with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets, and that CO2 has been the main factor dictating global climate patterns. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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CO2 Linked To Ice Ages & Past Global Climate Changes
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Photo via joebeone Flamingos are landing at Lake Naivasha in Kenya. This might seem like a good thing at first – more wildlife is a sign of vitality, right? But there’s one problem. Flamingos like salt water and Lake Naivasha is a fresh water lake. Or at least, it’s supposed to be. The flamingos are one of many signs showing that the chemistry of the lake is changing and that spells bad news for the flora and fauna that call it home. While there is a debate raging on what is causing the pollution and problems for the lake, several fingers point to the flower farming industry. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Are Cut Flowers Killing the Wildlife in Kenya’s Lake Naivasha?
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In my lifetime we’ve had the Beats, the Hippies, the Cold Warriors, the Boomers, X’ers, and the Y’rs and more. One term captures them all and that is Oil Generations . If we had to nominate a present-day King symbolize what united, fueled and lubed us all these years, it would be hard to chose between Representative Joe Barton, R-Texas and Tony Hayward, CEO of British Petroleum. To demonstrate, have a look at this excerpt from today’s Congressional hearing on the BP gusher. As
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Oil Generation’s Representative Barton Personal Apologies Extended To BP Executive
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