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Having a green, well manicured lawn is an American pride, right up there with our flag and our pickup trucks. Truth is though, to keep them looking good they need an incredible amount of water and require phosphate heavy fertilizers that leak into our ground water and create algae blooms and dead spots in […]
Happy Earth Day, everyone! Here is a list of bits of news, some innovation, and a few bits of corporate improvement. Enjoy!
The UK’s First Hydorgen Fueling Station Opens
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Here is some great news. Even though hydrogen has been slow to catch on so far, this is a good step forward in hopes of a wider […]
Scrubbing down your pad with rigorous spring-cleaning may leave it sparkling but the story is very different for your health. Researchers say that perhaps one in seven cases of adult asthma is brought on by harsh chemicals in common household cleaning sprays. Because the sprayed material goes directly into the air you are […]
The other morning, I authored a post on here about diverting our consumerism to more natural products, more organic products, greening our buys, etc. etc., but according to a recent Washington Post article, my musings seem at first seem misguided or bad advice. However, after reading the whole article, I can say it wasn’t bad […]
It’s definitely not new news that cow farming produces a ton of methane, a greenhouse gas worse than carbon dioxide, but until recently there wasn’t anything hugely beneficial to do with the decomposing manure. Sure, it makes great fertilizer, but most Americans cringe at the thought of anything they put in their mouths growing in […]
‘Tis the season for Mother Nature to once again renew herself with bouts of rain and hints of warm sunshine to supply us with spring’s bounty. In the Spring, which starts today (hoorah!), we start to see sprouts and berries on trees and bushes…but what does this mean for what we should be eating […]
I had a dilemma this morning over my bowl of oatmeal and blueberries. I was reading GOOD Magazine and thought to myself, “I really should get a subscription. No, I have to get a subscription, I owe it to myself and Swye.” Immediately I was consumed with my trained reaction of “You don’t really need […]
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What’s so great about the stuff? That’s exactly what Core77 asked. They uncover some interesting facts about the stuff like when bamboo is harvested, it isn’t cut down, it’s harvested from higher up so the plant can recover and keep growing. And it creates 35% more oxygen than a […]
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While on one of my Whole Foods trips the other day, I went to the whole body section for some soap and toothpaste. Picking up soap is always an ordeal for me; I’ll stand in front of the shelf reading labels of ingredients trying to decide which one to use next. […]
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Throughout our lives, we contribute a huge amount of unnatural chemicals and pharmaceuticals into our environment, and it doesn’t stop when we die. The embalming process adds all sorts of carcinogenic chemicals to our bodies with embalming, not to mention the chemicals used to create and preserve the casket (check out the […]
