Image via Wikipedia Why anyone ever expects the sane and rational out of the New York Post is beyond me, but judging from the bewilderment over at Treehugger apparenlty it’s still an issue. The latest in NYP’s very LONG tradition of yellow journalism (Post = P, after all) there’s a rant about how organic and [...]
04.08.2009
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Image via Wikipedia I’ve been operating for quite awhile on the assumption that in the US “organic” is merely an unsubstantiated marketing term with no government oversight. In the 90s, this was true. Apparently this changed in 2002 and I didn’t figure it out from reading the FDA website. According to the Wikipedia entry on [...]
04.08.2009
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Image via Wikipedia The Daily Mail is heralding the “uplifting power of scent” as though it’s news. I’m curious as to how they’ll turn that into a scandal, but in the meantime, a few key goodies from the article: Citrus is good for banishing depression, as is chammomile Heliotropin, is according to their scientist du [...]
04.07.2009
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The author of this book is coming to Minneapolis next week. I’m not sure if I’ll have the cash to attend – but if I can, I will, and I’ll be sure to report back! Share on Facebook
04.06.2009
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While I’ve found a few determinedly packrat-ish Minnesotans in my time here, I’m delighted to see that Minneapolis hit #7 for least wasteful cities in the United States on a Nelgene-sponsored survey printed in Fast Company. With our bikers, recyclers, cleanup people, thrift stores and decent mass transit (not to mention our awesome library system) [...]
04.02.2009
I’ve known about dumpster diving since college, when a group of friends told me of their adventures looting the bins outside the Hostess Cupcake company for free Twinkies until said company saw fit to enhance said dumpster with a lock. I also partook, at select times of years, often scooping up odd and useful knick-knacks, [...]
04.01.2009
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Maybe because Earth Day is on the 25th, or maybe because I’m on an environmental kick lately, I’ve gotten the “look for more info” bug whether it’s from paging through magazines or surfing blogs. Earth911 is a site worth a bookmark – it covers the bare-bones basics of recycling and makes some of those hard [...]
