Stuff We Found Today - 03.26.09

Family, Kids & Health Stuff

• Study: BPA impairs brain function - (Safer States) Great.
• Is Hand Snitizer Poisoning Your Kids? - (showtheLOVE)
  

Food Stuff

• Cadbury on the Radio - (Change.org: Fair Trade) "Public Radio International covered the Cadbury's news about going Fair Trade and even posted a slideshow of the report." Video in post.
• Trading Veggies - (GreenMuze) "Veggie Trader allows gardeners to sell or trade their excess veggies and fruit, or purchase from other people in their community. Brilliant and free." Maybe we can finally find someone who wants all our backyard apples!
• Trinidad Chocolate: Bean to Bar - (World Cocoa Foundation)
  

Home Stuff

• Looking To Eco Bathroom Tissue - (EcoFriendlyDaily.com) Personally, we like the Seventh Generation stuff.
• Waste Basket Wonder - (GreenMuze) "The world’s first waste-less waste paper basket, constructed of 100% recycled cardboard..." These are great for an office or dorm room!
  

Beauty & Fashion Stuff

• Tonight: Spring Has Set-up Shop! - (ecofabulous) "If you’re in the Bay Area make sure to join ecofabulous at Clary Sage Organics tonight for the opening of Edun’s Spring/Summer Pop-Up Shop and a sneak peek of the Fall/Winter Collection!" Edun founder (and wife of Bono) Ali Hewson will be there!
  

Tech & Science Stuff

• High Resolution Tesla Model S Gallery - (EcoGeek.org) "Tesla has officially unveiled the Model S..."
  
• Top 5 Greenest Laptops - (EcoGeek)
• Google and the Grid - (ecomii) "Google has teamed up with GE to bring us up-close and personal to the smart grid. They’re developing a personal energy information application called the Google PowerMeter that will show us our energy consumption in near real-time."
• The F-CELL Roadster - (GreenMuze) "Looking like a cross between a modern Mercedes-Benz and an old fashion roadster, the Daimler AG trainees at the Sindelfingen Mercedes-Benz plant have built a good-looking vehicle using a hydrogen powered fuel cell with zero emissions."

Work & Business Stuff

• Green Job Listings - March 25, 2009 - (Green Gigs)

Nature & Environment Stuff

• A Sea Change: Documentary Shows Harsh Truth of World Without Fish - (Blue Living Ideas) "...a new, hard-hitting documentary that draws public attention to this urgent but little-known crisis threatening over 1,000,000 species with extinction—and with them, our entire way of life."
  
• Three Mile Island Killed People / Nuclear Industry's Despicable Regulatory Record - (Culture Change) An interesting but very sobering article.
• Watching the Climate Crisis Unfold - (Al Gore) Looks like Al's blogging again... "In 2006, James Balog and National Geographic, attempted to photograph the effects of global warming as they unfolded. The result is the Extreme Ice Survey."

Arts, Entertainment & Travel Stuff

• Watch The Lorax Animated Cartoon Here! - (Eco Child's Play) Loved this book as a kid.
• Cassette Tape Portraits - (GreenMuze) Wow...kinds cool artwork!
• DiCaprio's Nickelodeon Award - (GreenMuze) "Green-guy Leonardo DiCaprio is set to receive the first ever Big Green Help Award at the Kids' Choice Awards..."

International Stuff

• Stunning Green Buildings in China: A Slideshow - (TreeHugger)

Political & Social Stuff

• House Votes to Expand Winderness in 9 States - (The Huffington Post) Post includes roll call list of who voted and how.
• Global Warming Is Bad for You, Says EPA - (EcoSalon) "...the Environmental Protection Agency appears to have designated greenhouse gases (the most infamous being carbon dioxide) as a danger to human health, opening the way to regulating these gases under the Clean Air Act."
• Egg A Politician - (Divine Chocolate) We came across this from green LA girl - "Aim your egg at one of the five leaders — Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown, Manmohan Singh or Wen Jiabao — attending the G20 summit, then send an email to the politicians asking them to keep fair trade on the G20 agenda."
• Obama Supports Turkish Mortgage Customers? - (The Art of Obama) Around the world, Obama's cache is so great that they're using his image on mortgage ads!! LOL
  

Other Random Cool Stuff

• Eco-Easter series: Eggscellent eggs - (Celebrate Green) Some eco-friendly options for plastic-free Easter eggs.
  
• Fair Trade Resource Network Fundraiser - (Change.org: Fair Trade) If you're interested in learning more about Fair Trade and happen to be in the Portland, OR area...check this out.
• It's Official: Urbanites Produce Less CO2 than Rural Residents - (EarthFirst)
• How to Recycle Your Old Stuff - (Focus Organic) some tips on how to recycle various items.
• Who Owns the Rain? - (Ecolocalizer) Can you believe it's illegal to collect/harvest rainwater in some states...what??!!
• Faith Communities, The Environment, and Tales of Responsibility - (New Dream Blog)