Archive for July, 2011
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casus telefonSay you’re planning a hike to the top of Angel’s Rest–and you want to enjoy a glass of wine at the bluff overlooking the Columbia River. Or, perhaps, you’re doing a self-sustaining bike trip from one city to another and want to share a glass of wine… Read the rest
More on Koch Industries
From SourceWatch: All About Koch Industries
From Greenpeace: Koch Industries: Still Fueling Climate Denial (2011 Update)
From Daily Kos: Koch Brothers Limerick & Song Challenge
From Me: Koch Brothers–Tilting at Clean Energy (cartoon and article=”cartoonicle”)
More on Coke
From SourceWatch: All About the Coca-Cola Company
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If you haven’t seen the pictures yet, you’re in a for an eyebrow-raising moment when you see the massive amount of green algae that’s covering China’s eastern coastline. But it’s not just the chlorophyta that’s bizarre; perhaps what makes the situation stranger is the appearance of people swimming amid the… Read the rest
It’s simple; Warm Current‘s mission is “to teach, inspire and support underserved communities and youth through surfing.” Equally as simple is how you can get involved and help. The Faces of Warm Current campaign is entering its final 10-day stretch to raise money for new supplies and a surf camp… Read the rest
In a new study in which polar bears were collared and their journies traced, one female was discovered to have swam 426 miles in a period of nine days without stopping. According to the National Geographic report, this polar bear traveled across the Beaufort Sea, which is experiencing ice cover… Read the rest
An interview with Sustainablog’s Jeff McIntire-Strasburg
From 2002 to 2004 my wife and I had the amazing opportunity to teach in Portugal (just outside of Lisbon). When we decided to return to the states we both assumed we’d return to Chicago where we lived prior to heading overseas. That changed… Read the rest
Greenpeace investigation shows Mattel, Disney, Hasbro, and Lego are all participating in rainforest destruction. Who’s willing to change?
As illustrated (pun!) in the cartoon, of the four major toy (etc.) companies, only Lego has announced plans to mend their ways. For info on their intentions, as well as their misdeeds… Read the rest
The scariest quote was the one I left off where he called the American people smart because, “after all, they keep re-electing me”. I left it out because this cartoon is meant to illustrate how bat-shit crazy Joe Barton is, not how unimaginably daft his constituents are.
Although, as a… Read the rest
If you’ve yet to see the 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary film, Waste Land, you can, at the very least, check out the trailer here. It follows artist Vik Muniz to the world’s largest landfill, Jardim Gramacho, just outside of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The film teeters between artist’s experiment… Read the rest
NASA recently unveiled an invention that uses forward osmosis to filter urine into a “sugary” drink that has been compared in taste to Capri Sun.
According to Inhabitat, the process of converting pee into a beverage has been tailored to work well in a zero gravity environment, but it ensures… Read the rest
