Archive for August, 2010
This amazing (and slightly disturbing) mockumentary was created by Heal The Bay as a means of support for the California bill AB 1998.
[Via: Laughing Squid]… Read the rest
A few years ago, Kyle Berner started an all natural, all recyclable, and all biodegradable flip flop company named Feelgoodz, which has since gained some serious momentum. Most recently, Feelgoodz had placed a shipment of 10,000 pairs of flip flops to be distributed and sold at 75 Whole Foods stores… Read the rest
A victory for anyone who likes healthy food, soil, and water! Monsanto‘s sour plans for the sweet beet were spoiled as a federal judge banned genetically modified sugar beets.
This is great news and hopefully a large step forward to getting food production back on a less toxic track.
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Pro surfer Kyle Thiermann believes that making waves is just as important as catching them. Armed with a video camera and the financial support of some pretty impressive sponsors, including the outdoors industry mega-badass, Patagonia, the 20-year-old Green Business student uses the power of digital information to fight for social… Read the rest
I was floored to find out that Elton John sang at Rush Limbaugh’s wedding. That is, until I heard what he sang…
And I hope everyone out there is very familiar with Howard Zinn. If there was ever a man (God rest his soul) that was the EXACT opposite of… Read the rest
Physically active history buffs, naturalists and curiosity seekers from across the Pacific Northwest are gearing up for The Century Paddle, a five-day, 110-mile sea kayak expedition from Willamette Falls to the confluence of the Columbia River with the Pacific. The event, which lasts from August 30 – September 4 and… Read the rest
Among the rolling mountains of Southern New Mexico lies Fort Stanton Snowy River National Conservation Area. Once home to Billy the Kid, occupied by both Union and Confederate Armies, the Buffalo Soldiers and the Apache Mescalero tribe, its history and culture are rich. Today it remains largely as it existed… Read the rest
This Monday, thousands of dead fish washed up on the beach in Fairhaven, MA. This Wednesday, tens of thousands of the same fish (menhaden, also dead) washed ashore in New Jersey near the Delaware Bay. What’s more, the seagulls couldn’t be less interested in what would normally be considered a… Read the rest
“Did you even think about the Gulf of Mexico before this oil spill?”
This is a simple question South Wings pilot Tom Hutchings asks writer and co-founder of Under Solen Media Anna Brones during a flight over the Gulf oil spill area. But it struck me as particularly poignant when… Read the rest
The news that chemicals and obesity causes premature puberty in girls is the latest of thousands of red flags waving high above our food production and consumption status quo. Of course, things are changing, but are they changing fast enough?
Nope. The only thing changing quickly is the level of… Read the rest
