Stuff We Found This Weekend - 02.08.09

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Alternative Energy Education: Fuel Cells, Hydropower, and Global Warming Science Kits - (Eco Child's Play) Super cool kits for your budding enviro-scientist.
  

Food Stuff

• Brewer To Turn Beer Waste Into Fuel For Its Trucks - (The Huffington Post) The brewer is Sierra Nevada.
  
• Green Beer, Sober Cows - (Eco Child's Play) Who knew cows got drunk?
• The Many 'Cides of Modern Food Production - Saturday Morning Cartoon - (The Good Human) Funny, yet sad because it's all too true.
• Oh-So-Sustainable Sushi - (Sierra Club: The Green Life) Couple of handy guides/books to sustainable sushi.

Home Stuff

• Tom Stanley Green Tip: Refrigerator Energy Saver - (Chelsea Green) Here's an easy little tip illustrated in video.
  
• Green Sheets and Ham - (EcoSalon) Dr. Seuss inspired organic bedding for kids from Pottery Barn.
• How to recycle your CFL bulbs - (green LA girl)
• Greening Up The Family Pet - (Eco Child's Play)

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Pedoodles Toddler Shoes From Recycled Materials - (EcoStiletto) There's a 40% off discount offer through EcoStiletto!
  
• A new ethical wardrobe for recessionary times? - (AFP) A trend called "Slow Wear" focuses on quality and longevity rather than quick and disposable fashion.
• So Ethic So New - (EcoFashionWorld) For all us eco-lovin' fashionistas.
• New Blissful Organic Cotton Spring Fever - (Feelgood Style) A preview of H&M's spring organic cotton line due to hit stores soon.
• Sustainable Skivvies For A Greener Valentines - (Inhabitat) Some good basics as well as some super cute ones for VDay.
  

Tech & Science Stuff

• Tweet-a-Watt? Gadget Twitter Your Energy Use - (EarthFirst) Apparently this gadget has "the power to embarrass you into improving your energy consumption habits."
  
• Environmental Graffiti's Guide to Black Holes - (Environmental Graffit) 'Cause we're wannabe science geeks.
• 25 Amazing Facts About Your Brain - (Environmental Graffiti) 'Cause it's interesting.
• First Aptera Electric Cars Roll Out: Vehicle of the Future? - (Fast Company)
• Scientists close to breakthrough in cloaking technology - (gnews) Not really a green post, but just so darn interesting.
• Rise of the Smart Grid - (TheDailyGreen) A good little recap/explantation if you don't really understand what the Smart Grid is all about.

Work & Business Stuff

• Great Green Job of the Week: Copywriter & Public Relations Specialist - (EarthFirst) It's for the California Center for Sustainable Energy.
• Green Job Listings - Feb. 6, 2009 - (Green Gigs)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• Scenes From an Eco-Disaster: The Tennessee coal ash spill as you've never seen it before. - (TheDailyGreen) What clean coal?!!!!
  
• 7 (More!) Phenomenal Wonders of the World - (WebEcoist) Crazy nature pics here!

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Ambassador Angelina back in action! - (Celebs Gone Good) ...one of our favorite do-gooder celebs.
  
• Celebrity Veganizer Rory Freedman Offers Valentine's Day Contest - (Ecorazzi) She's giving away some free stuff!
• The 10 Most Romantic Ecotourism Destinations - (TheDailyGreen) We can dream, can't we?
• ECO ART: Want to Hug a Tree? Get in line! - (Inhabitat)
  

Website Stuff

• Wanna expand your kid's eco-bandwith? - (Ideal Bite) "Connect 'em with enviro-cational websites designed just for youngun's."
• Gazelle: Get Cash For Your Gadgets - Here's a site that pays you for your old electronics and either refurbishes and resells, or recycles them for you. They even pay for shipping and send you a box!

International Stuff

• Who's Who in Green: Wen Bo, Chinese Environmental Activist - (EarthFirst) There's hope for China especially with the youth.
• Turning Airport Travelers' Breath into Fuel - (EarthFirst) Over in the U.K...
• Energy Generating Speed Bumps Get Green Light in London -(EcoWorldly)

Political & Social Stuff

• Would Val Kilmer Be a Better Environmental Governor Than Arnold Schwarzenegger? - (Red, Green and Blue) Wow, Batman is running for New Mexico governor...really??!
• Pres. Obama Addresses Economic Stimulus [video] - (Red, Green and Blue)

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Executive Compensation and Corporate social Responsibility - (Chelsea Green) Can you imagine if public corps actually did this? What a paradigm shift that would be.
  
• Boy Scouts of America Clearcut Forests, Leave No Trace - (Planetsave) This is just sad.
• Organic Coupons - (showtheLOVE) Here's a great list of websites where you can download coupons for everyday organic products.