Stuff We Found Today - 01.05.09

Food Stuff

• Cargill's long arm - (Plenty Magazine) This kind of interesting, especially since Cargill has been running TV ads lately. Read the post...it may open your eyes a little to the food industry.
  

Home Stuff

• Bye Bye Plastic Baggies - (showtheLOVE) - These Lunch Skins are kinda cool.
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Trouser Cut Organic Cotton Jeans From Gap - For $59.50, these jeans are great value. Joyce just wishes they'd make them in lengths like their other jeans (especially petites). Yea Gap...please keep giving us more organic options!!
• The Green Beauty Guide: Your Essential Resource to Organic and Natural Skin Care, Hair Care, Makeup, and Fragrances - Great book to have when shopping for beauty products. Read Eco-Chick's review.
• Urban Outfitters Urban Renewal on eBay - (Sprig) Urban Outfitters has an eBay shop that sells one-of-a-kind vintage pieces...shopping vintage is one of our favorite ways to shop green.
• Common Threadz - (showtheLOVE) "For each t-shirt you buy, we give a school uniforn to an orphan or vulnerable child so they can go to school." Now there's a great way to spend $38...and the t-shirt designs are pretty cool.

Tech & Science Stuff

• Nuclear Officially More Expensive than Renewables - (EcoGeek) And they mean financially more expensive...not just environmentally.
• Inventor Wants to Geo-Engineer a Planetwide "Refrigerator" - (CleanTechnica) "Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street..."

School, College & Student Stuff

• Green College Spotlight: Wellesley College - (EarthFirst)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Mystery: Brown Pelicans Dying Along California Coast - (Planetsave)

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• The Styrobot - Recycled/Reborn - (Do The Green Thing) Turning junk into art.
• Beyonce Knowles Donates Millions To Drug Treatment Center - (Ecorazzi)
• Matt Damon Narrates New 'Sahara' Documentary, Highlights Water Issues - (Ecorazzi)
  

International Stuff

• Green Funerals: Swedish Town Recycles Heat form Crematorium - (EarthFirst) May sound a little creepy, but hey, if it saves energy...
• Japanese Man Builds Canoe From Used Chopsticks - (Ecoscraps) Wow!
• Milan's Stunning Green Super City - (Inhabitat)
  

Political & Social Stuff

• Why Obama's green job plan might work - (Los Angeles Times: Business)
• California Might Ban Plasma Screen TVs - (EcoGeek)
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nation Day of Service - (EcoLocalizer) "President-elect Barack Obama is asking every person in the United States to help transform Martin Luther King Day, January 19th, into a national day of community service."

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Garbage Warrior: An Eco-Architect Fights to Build Off-the-Grid - (EarthFirst) "...a feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of eco-architect Michael Reynolds and his fight to introduce radically sustainable housing..." It's on Netflix and get's a 4 1/2 star rating - woohoo!!
• Shredded Paper - Fit for Recycling? - (Green Behavior) Here's a little info we didn't know about recycling shredded paper.